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Imperatives

Driving Safely
Focus on Grammar 1
Part 1, Unit I
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Driving
Driving Safely
Safely
Woman: Slow down, please! Im nervous.
Driver: Relax. Im a good driver.
Woman: Watch out for that bicycle!
Driver: Dont worry. Listen to the music.
Woman: Theres a red light. Stop!
Driver: Close your eyes. Im driving this cab.
Woman: Turn right! No, turn left! No, right.
Driver: OK, here we are. Next time, please take a bus.

Use
Use 11
Use the imperative for directions.

Stop!
Turn
left.

Use
Use 22
Use the imperative for instructions.
Watch out for that bicycle.
Close your eyes!

Use
Use 33
Use the imperative for requests.

Please take the bus.

Please slow down.

Practice 1
Take a
deep
breath.

doctor

Match the instructions with

the person who gives them.
Read page 23 for
homework.

Take
ayour
Give
me
Get ready
deep
Read
page
23
drivers
license.
for take-off.
breath.
for homework.

Give me your
drivers license.

police officer

Get ready
for take-off.

teacher

pilot

Affirmative
Affirmative
Use the base form of the verb for the
imperative.
Follow
Use aroad
seatsigns.
belt.

Negative
Negative
Use do not (dont) + base form for the
negative form of the imperative.
drive
Dont use Dont
a
cell phone. fast.

Practice 2
Example: Park here.

Make these imperatives

negative.

Dont park here.

1. Stop.

1. Dont stop.

2. Pass on the left.

2. Dont pass on the left.

3.Turn on your lights.

3. Dont turn on your lights.

4. Exit here.

4. Dont exit here.

Please
Please
Please makes an imperative more polite. Please comes at the
beginning or at the end of a sentence.

Watch
Pleaseout
watch
for
animals,
out for animals.
please.

Practice 3A

Look at the signs. Make

instructions with imperatives.

1.
Example:

1. Go.

Stop.
2.
2. Walk.

Practice 3B

Look at the signs. Write

instructions with imperatives.

3.
3. Dont park here.

4.
4. Turn right.

References
References
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