IMPERATIVES

To: Students of English 8th grade
From: Teacher MaQuiLo


Hello my dear students!
Here you are your first topic of English for this first period.  Follow the instructions bellow.

• Read it carefully. 
• Write the information on your notebook (don´t print the information).
• Do the exercises on your notebook, too.
• Review the new vocabulary and the explanations about the imperative. 
• Watch the video "Heal the world" and practice the song.

Remember, your learning success depends only on you and the time you spend practicing what you have learnt. (MaQuiLo)


Topic:    IMPERATIVES  

Imperatives are verbs used to give orders, commands, instructions, warnings, advices, invitations and (if you use "please") to make a request. 

In the imperative the person is not usually mentioned.

 For example:

Instructions: Open your books.

Warnings: Look out!

Offers: Have some juice.

Advices: Stay at home. Don't go to school if you are ill.

Requests: Pass the sugar, please.

Invitations: Come for dinner. 

To make a negative imperative, put "do not" or "don't" before the verb:

For example:

• Don't go! 
• Do not walk on the grass.

You can also use "let's" before the verb if you are including yourself in the imperative. The negative of "let's" is "let's not".

For example:

• Let's stop now.
• Let's have some lunch.
• Let's not argue
• Let's not tell her about it.

EXERCISE:

1.     Turn the positive imperatives into negatives, and the negatives into positives:

1.Make me a sandwich.    ............................................................. 
2.Open the door.       ......................................................................

3. Don't look at him. ....................................................................

4. Sit down. ................................................................................

5. Don't sing.  ...............................................................................
6. Don't go to sleep.  ....................................................................

1.     Put the words in the correct order:

1. music / the / to / listen .   .............................................................
2. books / look / don't /  your / at .  .................................................
3. litter / park / in / drop / the / don't . ............................................
4. run / don't / classroom / in / the. .................................................
5. friends / Mark's / listen / don't / to .  ..........................................

Write which of these imperatives is an order, a warning, a request, an instruction,  an advices or an invitations: 

1. Open your books on page 18 __________________________
2. Listen to your heart  _________________________________
3. Clean up this mess __________________________________ 
4. Let ´s go to the cinema. ______________________________  
5. Watch out! _______________________________ 
6. Please don't smoke here _____________________________

Videos "Heal the world" by Michael Jackson.

Heal the world, acustic version. 

 

 

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Hola mis queridos estudiantes de español de grado 7A, 7C y 7D!                             

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