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Classroom Instructions- Imperative Mix and Match

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Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.

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Classroom instructions imperative mix and match

 

Instructions for teachers

There are three versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. The second is on cards to make it more flexible and to make matching up a more physical activity. However, the mix or match activity is usually best if done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, or something like the classic book Do You Like Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?

There are also a few possible activities, but the best is usually to get one student to make a wrong, funny or crazy match and then for one or more other students to make it more correct/ sensible while keeping as many parts the same as they can. All the options have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match. Especially if students just add or take away “Don’t” each time, you could insist that they do that and then try to make a sensible sentence of the same kind as the original sentence, e.g. change “Write on the ball” to “Don’t write on the ball” and then to “Write on the board”.

To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on one side, perhaps after adding a cover, and then cut along the dotted lines. You could also add suitable pictures to some or all flaps, but doing it without pictures means that students will have to concentrate more on the meaning of the words.

After reading, students could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. Another option is for each student to draw one picture of their favourite silly combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page. They could also draw or act out the good and/ or silly combinations as you go along.

They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the other columns/ cards/ flaps.

 

Single page version

Make combinations of words from the different columns below, see if your partner accepts them, and if not see if they can make the combinations better.

 

 

-

 

don’t

 

 

cut

draw on

kick

knock on

listen to

look at

move

open

pick up

push

slap

touch

turn

turn off

turn over

wash

write on

your bag

the ball

the board

the button

your chair

the door

the flashcard

your hands

the page

the paper

the picture

your smartphone

the snake’s cage

the sun

your teacher

the computer

the window

 

 

Cards version

Make combinations of words from the different kinds of cards below, see if your partner accepts them, and if not see if they can make the combinations better.

don’t

 

 

cut

your bag

draw on

the ball

kick

the board

knock on

the button

listen to

your chair

look at

the door

move

the flashcard

open

your hands

pick up

the page

push

the paper

slap

the picture

touch

your smartphone

turn

the snake’s cage

turn off

the sun

turn over

your teacher

wash

the computer

write on

the window


Book version 

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

cut

 

-------------------------------

 

your bag

 

 

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

draw on

 

-------------------------------

 

the ball

 

 

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

kick

 

-------------------------------

 

the board

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

knock on

 

-------------------------------

 

the button

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

listen to

 

-------------------------------

 

your chair

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

look at

 

-------------------------------

 

the door

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

move

 

-------------------------------

 

the flashcard

 

 

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

open

 

-------------------------------

 

your hands

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

pick up

 

-------------------------------

 

the page

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

push

 

-------------------------------

 

the paper

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

slap

 

-------------------------------

 

the picture

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

touch

 

-------------------------------

 

your smartphone

 

 

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

turn

 

-------------------------------

 

the snake’s cage

 

 

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

turn off

 

-------------------------------

 

the sun

 

 

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

turn over

 

-------------------------------

 

your teacher

 

 

 

don’t

 

-------------------------------

 

wash

 

-------------------------------

 

the teacher’s computer

 

 

 

-

 

-------------------------------

 

write on

 

-------------------------------

 

the window

 

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