• Can you swim?

• Could you swim ten years ago?

• Can you speak English?

• Could you speak English when you were six?

• Now it’s your turn. Work in pairs and ask questions with the modal verb in your card.

Meet the Jetsons.

• In the future, robots will be able to teach.

• In the future, children will be able to drive space cars.

• In 100 years, schools will be able to be in space.

• In the future, students will be able to have a stadium in their school.

Now please look at your worksheet and write

sentences about the pictures as in the example.

You have 5 minutes!

• Why do we use “will be able to” ?

• Do we use it for future abilities?

• Do we use it for future possibilities?

• In the future, robots will be able to teach.

• In the future, children will be able to drive space cars.

Ability or Possibility?

ability

ability

Ability or Possibility?

• In 100 years, schools will be able to be in space.

• In the future, students will be able to have a stadium in their school.

possibility

possibility

We use “will be able to” to talk about future abilities and

possibilities.

IYouHeSheIt

WeYouThey

will be able to (+)

won’t be able to (-)

speak English.

• You’ll see some pictures now.

• You’ll write a sentence about the picture by using ‘will be able to’ in groups.

• Then, a person from each group will come to board and put their sentence on the board.

Students have desks with computer.

They can go to school by space

school bus.

They have robot teachers.

Robot language

They can go to school without

uniform.

I can speak 450

languages.

Work in groups.

If you are in ‘group can’, talk about your present abilities.

If you are in ‘group could’, talk about your past abilities.

If you are in ‘group will be able to’, talk about your future abilities.

You have 5 minutes!

• Now, a person from each group will come together. You’ll work in groups of three.

• Each group should include a person from ‘group can’ , a person from ‘group could’ and a person from ‘group will be able to’.

• Then, write a paragraph including ‘can,could and will be able to’ together.

You

have

five

mins!