EF elementary 2C

1. IMPERATIVES
EF Elementary 2C

2. Use imperatives …
• … to give orders and instructions
Open the window
Look at page 127
Sit down
Don’t speak Spanish

3. Positive imperatives = Verb (infinitive)
Open your books
Turn right
Hurry up
Look at page 127
Work in pairs

4. Negative imperatives = don’t + Verb (infinitive)
Don’t open your books
Don’t turn right
Don’t speak Spanish
Don’t stop talking
Don’t look at the board now

5. Use PLEASE to be polite
Please, don’t open your books
Please, turn right
Please, don’t speak Spanish
Please, stop talking
Please, don’t look at the board now

6. Don’t use a pronoun (you) with imperatives
You don’t open your books
Be you quiet

7. SUGGESTIONS
• … use Let’s + verb (infinitive) to make positive
suggestions
Let’s go home
Let’s wait
• … use Let’s not + verb (infinitive) to make
negative suggestions
Let’s not go home
Let’s not wait