Let’s learn to make offers and suggestions. You can also give orders and instructions.
Please open the door.
Instructions
- Complete the sentences in the flashcards.
- Complete exercise 1.
- Complete exercise 2.
- Look at our examples.
A1 Imperatives
Giving orders and instructions
You use imperatives to make people do things. You use the basic form of the verb.
- Come in! Have a cup of tea.
- Put your coat on.
- Take only one.
Making offers and suggestions
You use imperatives for offers.
- Have a drink.
- Have some cakes
You use imperatives for invitations.
- Come to my party on Saturday.
- Stay for lunch.
You use imperatives for instructions.
- Take the first road on the left.
- Take your books out.
You use imperatives for suggestions.
- Enjoy your holiday!
- Have a good time!
Imperatives can be impolite.
- Be quiet!
- Sit down!
You use please to be polite:
- Please sit down!
- Please be quiet!
You can also use. Could you or Can you please to be polite:
- Could you give me a glass of water?
- Can you give me a glass of water, please?
You make a negative with Don’t:
- Don’t stand up!
- Don’t worry.
There are materials specifically concerned with a particular grammar structure at this elementary level of English. The main structures at this level are the Past Simple, Present Continuous and structures for the future tense.
- A1 Adverbs
- A1 Articles
- A1 Can and Can’t
- A1 Dates, days and numbers
- A1 Greetings and Introductions
- A1 Have
- A1 Indefinite article
- A1 It Sentences
- A1 Linking Words
- A1 Much and Many
- A1 Offers, suggestions, orders and instructions
- A1 Possessive ‘s and s’
- A1 Prepositions of Place
- A1 Present Simple
- A1 Pronouns
- A1 Regular Adjectives
- A1 Singular and Plural Nouns
- A1 There and Their
- A1 Wh questions
At this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English communication to provide confidence to understand at this basic level of English.
Here are resources at this elementary level that will give students practice in reading and writing. The reading materials are reading comprehensions but can be easily adapted for other reading practice. At this low level, the writing materials are generally guided writings.
t this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English vocabulary to provide confidence to speak at this basic level of English.
- A1 Animals Word Puzzle
- A1 Body and Face Word Puzzle
- A1 Clothes Word Puzzle
- A1 Colours Word Puzzle
- A1 English for Art Word Puzzle
- A1 Family and Friends Word Puzzle
- A1 Food and Drink Word Puzzle
- A1 Names Word Puzzle
- A1 Numbers Word Puzzle
- A1 Prepositions Word Search
- A1 School Word Puzzle
- A1 The Home Word Puzzle
- A1 Transport Word Puzzle
- A1 Weather Word Puzzle