My abilities

Presentation to explain modals of ability for ESL.

1. My abilities

2. Well , in english we use …to say that we are able to do something .

3. … my can only works for the present .

4. So we have another modals to help out.

5. We use  could  to talk about an ability somebody had in the past, but…   was/were able  to to talk about a specific event in the past. Examples I  could   ride a bike when I was six. Last Saturday evening was cool, I felt good and I  was able to   cycle 10 miles. He  could   speak French quite well. He   was able to   speak French to the policeman to explain what had happened. They  could   write computer programmes . They   were able to   write a computer programme which solved his problem.

6. e xactly Could is also used for possibility!

7. I w ill be able to….

8. Let’s put in paper our abilities using all our available modals so we cover all tenses.