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Teaching Imperatives in English Grammar

1. This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching the present imperative grammar form. It includes the following: 2. The lesson plan is divided into four steps: explaining what an imperative is, the basic imperative structure, practicing imperatives by giving students verbs and having them add additional information, and playing a game where students give imperatives to three other students at the front of the class. 3. The game is meant to get students more comfortable using imperatives and allows other students to creatively come up with silly or funny imperatives to follow. The goal is to get the whole class engaged and laughing together.

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Teaching Imperatives in English Grammar

1. This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching the present imperative grammar form. It includes the following: 2. The lesson plan is divided into four steps: explaining what an imperative is, the basic imperative structure, practicing imperatives by giving students verbs and having them add additional information, and playing a game where students give imperatives to three other students at the front of the class. 3. The game is meant to get students more comfortable using imperatives and allows other students to creatively come up with silly or funny imperatives to follow. The goal is to get the whole class engaged and laughing together.

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UTEC Faculty of Social Sciences English Department

Module 6 Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language. Professor: Lic. Nelson Martinez

UNDERSTANDING AND USING GRAMMAR


Groups members: 1. Nelson Prez Torres
2. Ana Mercedes Hernndez Rodrguez 3 Jose David Njera Vsquez 4. Claudia Patricia Lpez 5. Brenda Liseth Mejia 6. Erick Wilfredo Perdomo (Coordinador)

1. Units of study UNITS


1 Present Imperative.

PROCEDURES
Step One: Explain to your students what an 'imperative' is. Also known as a command or a plea, it gives someone instructions about what they should do - Stand up. Sit down. Stop talking. Etc. Write several examples on the board and have students copy into notebooks. Step Two: Explain the basic structure of an imperative, either a) the simple version composed of just a verb - Sit. Stop. Eat. Run. Etc., or b) a verb followed by additional information - Sit there. Stop talking. Eat faster. Hit Nelson. Etc. Step Three: Go around the classroom, giving a basic verb imperative (Go. Eat. Talk etc) and ask each student to add additional information to the imperative - Faster, A Person's Name, Now, Tomorrow etc. Step Four: (Game One) - Choose three students and ask them to come to the front of the class. Choose the more outgoing ones, so they don't feel stupid when they're standing up there and

TOPICS
Present Progressive Simple Present Tense Non-action verbs Present Progressive and Simple Present Tense Imperative

expected to follow commands. When standing in a row facing the other students, give them several imperatives to follow Turn around. Sit down on the floor. Stand up. Touch your nose and on and on. I always do a few silly ones "Hit yourself really fast", "Kiss that boy", which my students love as it makes them laugh. Now allow other students to raise their hands and, after you choose one, let him or her give an imperative to the students at the front of the class. Here the other students get very creative, and silly, with the imperatives they create and it usually ends up with the whole classroom screaming laughing including the three students at the front of the class.

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