Welcome back to Class

with teacher Beke

Grade 7

Class rules

1. Be on time

2. Raise your hand if you have something to say.

3. Listen

5.Speak English and less or no Chinese .

4. Keep your space tidy

Understanding Imperative Sentences

Objective: Students will learn what imperative sentences are and how to use them to give commands, make requests, and offer instructions.

IMPERATIVE SENTENCES

An imperative sentence gives a command and instructs someone to do something.

PURPOSE

They typically begin with the base form of a verb and do not use a subject.

Example:

"Close the door."

“Open your book”

“Wait for your turn”

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Key rule of imperative

Examples

Sit down

Open the door

Open your book.

Wait for your turn

Turn off the lights

Practise with please

Adding “please” makes a request more polite.

Close the door.

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Please, Close the door.

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Close the door, please

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Activity

Have students practice saying commands with “please” in pairs. They can take turns giving commands to each other.

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Practice

Don’t run.

Turn off your phone.

Open your book.

Be quiet.

Look at the pictures and try to create sentences

Let’s

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“Let’s” is used to suggest doing something together.

Examples:

“Let’s go to the park.”

“Let’s read a story.”

Attributive sentence

Let’s+ base verb

Let’s go to the park.

Let’s play games

Negative sentence

Let’s + not+ original form verb

Example: Let’s go to the park.

Let’s not go to the park.

Practice Writing ( Group work)

Ask students to write their own commands using “please” and suggestions with “let’s.”

prompt:

Write 2 commands with “please.”

Write two suggestions using “let’s.”