Positive and negative imperative for commands, orders, instructions and offers PDFs and teaching activities. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Teaching imperative tips
How to teach the imperative (article)
How to really teach the imperative (blog post)
Photocopiable imperative classroom activities
Requests and offers in business presentations (with imperative presentation) – NEW
Requests and offers in business meetings (with imperative presentation)
Imperative practice ball games
Don’t Listen to Your Chair! classroom instructions imperative mix and match
Offers, commands and requests in emails (in this very cheap e-book)
Classroom instructions number word recognition TPR practice
Requests and imperative in travel English
Imperatives pick and act TPR game
Please + imperative for offers and commands in presentations
Please + imperative for offers and commands in emails
Business Xmas cards dos and don’ts
Advice for foreign travellers zero conditional with modals and imperative practice
Advice for parents Zero conditional practice
Imperative picture books/ Imperative stories
George Shrinks by William Joyce (with useful vocabulary for daily routines wake up, make your bed, brush your teeth, take a bath, clean your room, eat breakfast, wash the dishes, do your homework, take out the garbage, play with your brother, water the plants, feed the fish/ feed your pets, and check the mail)
No David! by David Shannon (read through on YouTube)
Little Miss Bossy by Roger Hargreaves (link to read through on YouTube)
Imperative songs
Quiet please! (Stand up Sit down, etc on LearnEnglishKids)
and about a million pop songs, including most songs starting with “Don’t…”, Stop in the Name of Love, Get Down, etc etc etc
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Updated 10 January 2023