Instructions and Imperative Statements- ESL English Lesson (3:7)

This resource is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint presentation providing all the information and activities required to teach ESL learners how to create and understand instructions and imperative statements. Suitable for both child and adult learners, this resource can be used online or in the classroom and is suitable for one-to-one or groups of learners.

Imperative statements instruct another person what to do. The subject ‘you’ is usually missed off the front of an imperative statement, unless it is included for emphasis. Imperative statements usually begin with an imperative verb (a verb in base tense).

Created by Teacher Kaylee, a fully-qualified international school teacher, this lesson can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as part of the Firefly Learner ESL English course (this lesson is unit 3, lesson 7).

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson teaching ESL learners how to create imperative statements and give instructions. It includes starter and plenary activities, teaching explanations and differentiated consolidation activities.

LO: To give and understand instructions and commands in English

Success Criteria:
•I can identify imperative verbs in command statements.
•I understand the meaning of a variety of imperative verbs.
•I know that we often miss the subject ‘you’ off the beginning of command statements.
•I know that we use the present simple tense and so, because the subject is ‘you’ we do not add an ‘s’ to the verb.
•I can identify parts of a sentence (subjects, verbs, prepositions and objects)

The presentation includes the following:
✔ Learning objective and success criteria
✔ Starter and plenary activities
✔ Assessment of prior knowledge
✔ Teaching input (vocabulary & meanings, sentence construction, grammar points, explanations about how and when to use each tense etc.)
✔ Differentiated independent and team consolidation tasks (3 levels)
✔ Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
✔ Application activities and extension activities