12/2/2023 0 Comments Verb moods interactive activity![]() ![]() Follow by having your students do their own cooking demo in front of the class. Watch the video again and challenge your students to make note of any imperative verbs the chef uses. Point out that as the actor/chef makes the recipe, he or she is giving instructions with the imperative mood to the viewer. There are hundreds of cooking demos available on YouTube, so choose one that your students may like and show it to the class. You may want to make a list of all the verbs your students find and review their definitions, especially cooking specific verbs, as a class.īesides written recipes, many cooking demonstrations use the imperative to communicate with their viewers how to make a particular dish. Then have your students find examples of imperative verbs in their own recipes. Point out to your students that the instructions in the recipe use the imperative mood and that the verbs take the second person present conjugation on a sample recipe. Copies from cookbooks or printouts online are great, but do not overlook simple instructions that come with a food product, like cooking directions on how to make pasta or rice. You will want to match the complexity and content of the recipe to your students’ language level. Start your imperative cooking lesson by giving your students some recipes to look over. In the case with recipes, the writer is giving a set of instructions to the reader with the hope that the reader will be able to reproduce the same results in his or her kitchen. The step-by-step directions for creating a culinary masterpiece, or at least lunch, are written in the imperative. Still interested? Check out this post on pronunciation issues for ESL learners.ĭo you have any games you want to add? Or can you build upon these 8 games in any way? We want to hear about it! Let us know in the comments section below.Recipes are a great example of the imperative mood in authentic English text. Keep incorporating the verbs they have learned into lessons, give them a lot of opportunities to hear and read the proper tense, and it will eventually become second nature to them. You’ll hear your students frequently getting them wrong in speech even though they just answered perfectly on a test – remember that even native speakers frequently mix up verb conjugations and tenses as kids. Remember, it takes a long time for verb conjugations to become intuitive. Create some mad libs that feature a lot of verbs, and make sure that as students are filling them out, they are paying attention to the context and tense of the sentence and conjugating the verb properly. This is a classic, hilarious, and versatile game that can be adapted to any number of ESL situations. See also Haley Williams, Teaching English In Shanghai, China Mad Libs You can also give them a tense as well as the verb, for more advanced students. To make the game last longer, you could make it a game of connect 5 instead of tic tac toe. If they give the wrong answer, it is the other team’s turn. The team member is given a verb which they have to conjugate correctly using the pronoun in the square that they want to mark. On a team’s turn, they send a member to the board. Draw a tic tac toe board, and write a pronoun in each square. You can pause and ask – did (person) (v) the ball? Tic Tac Toe As they pass it, they describe their action: I (v) the ball. Students stand in a circle and pass the ball around. For example: “Do you do it at home?” “Yes.” “Do you do it by yourself?” “No.” “Do you do it in your kitchen?” “Yes.” “Do you like to cook?” “No.” “Do you like to eat?” “Yes!”įor practice with past tense, change the phrase to “What did I do yesterday?” You can give them a limit on the number of questions they can ask, or allow them to ask until they guess it. Other students have to guess what the verb is by asking simple yes or no questions. One student comes to the front of the class and is given a verb. You can establish that a “Yes, you may” answer allows them one move (one hop, one jump, one skip, etc) forward, or for more advanced students, have them ask for the number of moves forward, as well (“Mother may I jump 3 times?” “Mother may I walk 3 big steps forward?” Twenty Questions Teaching Verbs Edition See also A Style Guide To The Korean Office: Men ![]()
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