This section deals with the indicative and imperative moods which are the first moods beginners learn. Rather than overwhelm students with the words indicative and imperative, focus on giving them plenty of practice using them. With 46 worksheets to choose from, Busy Teacher can help you plan your lessons. Exercises related to giving directions are great practice for the imperative; this worksheet is a perfect example. It combines giving directions with a few prepositions of place. It includes directions for two games that can be played in groups as well as a handout. Students can complete the handout, which you might want to do before the other activities or as homework, individually for comprehension practice. For other activities related to this topic, simply look at other worksheets in this section. Even if you do not find exactly what you are looking for, you can use what you see as inspiration for your own worksheets. Since all of the worksheets are free, you can download as many as you want.
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This worksheet was originally designed for ESL special needs students. It is meant to guide students through very basic steps to produce a simple yet really nice pop up card. They might need help ...
This is a fun, action game using the imperative form. Students count to 14 and make a rule for a number. Students resume counting from #1, but numbers are replaced with the rules/actions. Full ins ...
This is a short PowerPoint presentation on how to make a grilled cheese sandwich using photos and short descriptive sentences. It's only showing the cooking steps, so any kind of introduction of n ...
This worksheet is based on the song, 'Imagine' by John Lennon. There is the full text of the song just like a gap filling exercise. There are is also a vocabulary revising exercise. In another exe ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the imperative at pre-intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed by 2 activities in which students are asked to decide whether each sentence is ...
The worksheet is based on the song by Mercury 'Love of my life'. Students put the lines of the song in order in a kinesphaetic activity for the first part of the song and then fill the gaps f ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the imperative at elementary level. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete the chart, choose the verb from the box to make imper ...
With this worksheet children can think and know the different aches and pains. They will need to write different recommendations for the different pains and aches using imperative form. They also ...
Some of you will prefer to let students listen once first, others may find different ways of doing it depending on the level of the students. I would suggest playing the video / song verse by ver ...
I used this song in order to elicit the imperative form. First I played an order game where sts have to give orders to each other and explain the different uses of the imperative. Once I elicited ...
By introducing this boardgame into your classes students will have fun while learning the imperative. It's played with dice and counters when students land on a square the are asked to answer the ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for elementary students on the imperative. The first page is basically just a grammar guide with simple explanations and example sentences the second page has 2 differen ...
In this worksheet the teachers may practice with their pupils imperative as well as the use of the verb can. There are four exercises which contain the following tasks: -turn the positive imper ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the imperative. There is a brief explanation followed by 3 different activities in which students are asked to look at the pictures and choose the cor ...
Worksheet for pair/group activity (written/spoken): invent a sport (make up the rules, number of players, etc.). Practice sports vocabulary and verbs (action verbs, etc.). For more advanced groups ...
This is a listening test to assess the pupils' knowledge about the form of the imperative. The document offers a transcript of a video (link included) in which Martha Stewart shows you how to make ...
One good song to teach Imperatives. Bob Marley did it. Enjoy this song and use this worksheet to practise with your students. One love is the most popular song from Bob Marley, look for the lyrics ...
This worksheet is an easy recipe with missing words: words are replaced with pictures to practise vocabulary. This ws can be used to practise the imperative form and verbs of preparation. It can a ...
This is a quick time-filler to review the Imperative. Students advance on the board, when they land on a square they must answer the question" What did she say?" using the imperative. Recommended ...
This is a 3-page Worksheet including a Grammar guide and several exercises to learn the imperative and Classroom instructions. tasks included: 1- Match the classroom instructions in the box wi ...
This test on CAN, ANIMALS and IMPERATIVES has two sets that look the same at first glance but they have some little differences to prevent students from PEEPING. If one of them tries to cheat by ...
In this lesson the students will practice their abilities in giving instructions. It is divided in three parts.the teacher will introduce the class asking some examples and after go through some ...
Students write down what they hear (from your dictation). At some points they should provide their own ideas/words, directed by you. In the end, that results in a funny story they enjoy a lot...a ...
Students practise using imperatives by filling in the blanks to the Beatle's song: Hey Jude. Can be used as a listening activity in grammar class if studying imperatives, or can be used in a lis ...
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