Read the text and answer the questions below it:
Dear students, silence please. Look at me. Try to guess what I want to tell you by my body language. Please keep silent. Now go straight and left. Cross two blocks. Turn right. Find out the red building. Speak to the security people there. Tell them that you are from Modhupur High School. Show them this paper if they ask you to prove your identity. Don't enter inside until they ask you to do that and don't lose this paper, please.
a. How does each sentence begin?
b. What is the purpose of these sentences?
In the above sentences, someone asks the listener to do something. These are imperative sentences. The imperative sentences begin with a verb in the base form. To make negative sentences using imperative you need to begin the sentence with don't and then use the verb. If the sentence is for request, use please at the beginning or in the end with a comma (,).
Imperatives sentences are used to give commands, instructions, advice, or make requests.
Activity 1
Here is a recipe for making orsaline. Each sentence needs a verb at the beginning. Choose them from the verbs given in the box and write them in the blank spaces.
| stir | pour | add | take | don't add |
_________ a clean jug.
_________ two glasses of boiled water with normal temperature in it.
_________ a handful of sugar and a pinch of salt.
_________ with a clean spoon.
_________ anything else.
Activity 2
Give the recipe for (a) boiled egg and (b) making an omelet. Add at least one negative sentence in imperative.
| Boiled egg | Omelet |
| 1. | 1. |
| 2. | 2. |
| 3. | 3. |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5. | 5. |
| 6. | 6. |
| 7. | 7. |
Activity 3
Suppose you meet a new person in front of your home. The person would like to go to your school but she doesn't know how to go. Give proper directions. Tell her at least two things not to do.
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