Can you ~ ? Lesson Plan

This is a follow up lesson to the I can snakes and ladders lesson plan. It uses the same activity and game, but grammar is changed to question form, and the game is changed due to this. I will provide the lesson plan, the worksheet, and a new snakes and ladder game sheet modified to slow down the game some.


I can, introduction to can lesson

This is a kind of lesson I do with snakes and ladders that keeps the students working in groups, but also frequenly having the teacher’s check their work. It works fairly well in even the most difficult classes I have.


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I hope everyone has a nice holiday season. I am very busy right now preparing stuff for winter camps, so uploads will slow until 2020.

Follow up lesson to practice Can you ~ ? with a new worksheet and modified snakes and ladders sheet.

The King Game

I thought that it would be interesting to see the process I go through taking old materials and digitizing them.

This is the original I made. I hand drew the board and used clip art and MS Word to add grapics, text, and numbers.

This is the image without grapics, and this is the one I used as the base for the digital version.

This is a video of me drawing from start to finish on my Samsung tablet. I used an app called Ibis Paint X that is free. All the elements are now hand drawn. Some of the images are from other things I’ve drawn that I then imported and redrew so it would look cohesive. The castle alone I traced from a coloring book image, I can draw decently, but that level of detail would’ve taken me hours to come up with something comparable.


Here is the finished product.

Here is a blank template you can fill in your own questions. I would suggest downloading it and then drop it into microsoft word and use text boxes to add your own questions.

How to play the King Game

Here is a detailed lesson plan for the King Game. It can be used for 1st year students studying, “Can I~?” / 2nd year students studying, “May I~?” / and 3rd year students studying, “Could/Would you~?”