Can/ Can’t games, worksheets, stories and songs

About 56 can for ability PDFs

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Teaching can/ can’t articles

How to teach can/ can’t for ability (general guide – see articles below for game ideas)

The most useful can/ can’t classroom activities 

TPR activities for can/ can’t for ability 

9 fun activities for can/ can’t for ability 

Photocopiable can/ can’t classroom activities

Describing places with can and can’t games NEW

Present and past abilities dice games 

Questions with can dice games

Good and taboo questions on can for ability

Can you eat your house? abilities mix and match

Can a Kangaroo Drink Your Blood? animal abilities mix and match

Choosing holidays for your partner like and can practice (with names of places and kinds of holidays)

Present and past ability discussion questions

Present and past ability sentence completion games (things in common, guessing and bluffing)

Abilities of animals can/ can’t games

Yes/ No questions with can personalised pelmanism

Can & Can’t Coin Drawing Game

Can and can’t coin games (make me say yes, bluffing games, things in common, etc)

Can and can’t miming coin game

Can/ Can’t and prepositions of position TPR dice game

Present and past ability bluff

Can Can’t sports mimes lower level version

Country guessing You can game

Can/ Can’t match the person to the sport – polished up December 2014

Can/ Can’t sports mimes – higher level version – polished up December 2014

Can/ Can’t skills questionnaires

Write the most difficult questionnaire in the world!

Can/ Can’t text jigsaw

Can and can’t stories/ Can and can’t picture books

Can you eat your house? abilities mix and match

Can a Kangaroo Drink Your Blood? animal abilities mix and match

Pets at the Animal Shelter  (on LearnEnglishKids)

From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (link to read through on YouTube, and see below for the song)

Can and can’t songs

Can a flea climb a tree?  (on LearnEnglishKids)

I can run song (ditto)

From Head to Toe song (based on the Eric Carle book, with lots of good actions)

Anything you can do I can do better (you could then get the students to make up their own verses challenging each other)

Related pages

Requests page

Functional language main page

Modal verbs main page

Updated 24 November 2025