Imperative Sentences in English. English ESL/EFL Lesson Plans and Games on the imperatives in English
Imperative Sentences in English
Lesson plans
Here you can find a wide range of full lesson plans to use in your classroom.
All of our lessons are designed around themes engaging and relevant to English ESL-EFL learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their English language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways.
These lesson plans focus on classroom games and activities oriented around meaningful practice of grammar items in English. The vast majority of the activities have been designed to be simple and easy to apply, without requiring much in the way of additional resources or materials. Wherever possible, games have been presented in a way that makes full use of any natural or genuine communicative aspects embodied in the grammar constructions, though while there is emphasis on understanding the grammar and its functional and communicative aspects, most of the games also highlight the importance of using the grammar accurately.
These lesson plans are intended as a starting point for teachers to adapt and build their own stock of in-class games and activities that can be applied relatively quickly and easily.
Imperative Sentences in English
Imperative Sentences in English: Here are thress lesson plans on the English imperatives
Simple Imperative Sentences
Objectives:
To have the students be able to recognize and construct simple imperative sentences.
Presentation:
– Remind the students what a sentence or rather simple sentence is. A simple sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
Ex. John runs to the bazaar.
– Teach the class what an Imperative Sentence is. An imperative sentence tells a person to do something. It is also known as a command, and the subject is the understood “you.” Also helpful to note that an imperative sentence always starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Ex. Put on your safety glasses. (You put on your safety glasses.)
Practice:
– Give the students five more examples of imperative sentences so that they can better understand what is meant by a command.
1. Sit down. (You sit down.)
2. Do your homework. (You do your homework.)
3. Be quiet. (You be quiet.)
4. Write the notes in your notebook. (You write the notes in your
notebook.)
5. Finish your work. (You finish your work.)
– To keep practicing with imperative sentences call a student to the front of the room and start telling him/her to do things (using imperative sentences to command them) and letting the class help them have them obey your commands.
Play it like a mini-version of “Simon Says.” You can do it with the whole class after they catch on, and then for fun let the students command you by allowing them to think of imperative sentences.
For Example: Tell the student to stand up.
Tell the students to turn around.
Tell the students to jump.
Tell the students to clap their hands.
Tell the students to face the window.
– Have the students practice writing imperative sentences to make sure that they understand. They should write 7 to 10 imperative sentences that command someone else to do something.
Homework: – For homework have the students choose a person that they would like to
command around for a day, and have them write about it.
Simon Says
Objective:
Asking others to perform actions
Presentation:
This is straight up “Simon Says”, a game almost anybody knows how to play.
Practice:
With the teacher going first, commands are given to students to perform various actions, only to be obeyed if the speaker inserts “Simon says…” before each command. Students too slow to obey, or those that obey when “Simon says” has been omitted, have to sit out the rest of the game, until only one student is left as the winner of that round. In subsequent rounds, students themselves take on the role of “Simon” and command their classmates to perform actions. A fun game, students can quickly become tired of it if it is used for too
long and/or too often.
Cooking lesson
Objective:
Giving instructions to be followed
Presentation:
This imperatives game is based on the idea of a cooking lesson, but is also useful for having students convert simple tense verbs back to their base forms to use them in an imperative application.
Practice:
First, the teacher writes a story/account on the board about somebody cooking something, using present simple or present progressive tense for the actions that take place in the cooking sequence. The students identify each action in the account, and as they do so, the teacher underlines these verbs. The teacher then announces that it is the next day and this imaginary person has forgotten how to cook!
The teacher takes the role of this forgetful person and the students try to help him/her by using the actions from the account in imperative form for here-and-now application.
Teacher: So what am I cooking?
Students: Spaghetti.
Teacher: Spaghetti? OK, what’s first?
Students: Go to the supermarket and buy noodles, meat, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms and onions.
Teacher: OK, what’s next?
Students: Fill a pot with water. Put it on the stove. Turn on the gas and wait for the water to boil.
Teacher: What should I do while I’m waiting for the water to boil?
Students: Cut up the mushrooms. Mash the tomatoes. Crush the garlic. Slice up the onions.
Teacher: Cut up the mushrooms – like this? [Pretends to ‘mash’ the mushrooms]
Students: No! Cut! Cut! Like this! [Students show the teacher a ‘cutting’ motion]
Teacher: Oh, OK. So I’ve done all that. Hey, this water is boiling! What’s next?
Students: Put the noodles in the pot.
Etc.
This game can be a lot of fun, and can be made more fun by simply reading aloud the original account without showing it to students on a whiteboard (a good way to check if they are actually able to use imperative forms because their attention span is divided somewhat between remembering the sequence of the actions and giving the next
instruction).
If you are teaching in a unique EFL context, have students attempt to instruct you on how to make a recipe from their own culture, an activity that brings very genuine communication to the overall activity.
Imperative Sentences in English
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