Imperative

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Exemplos (affirmative form)

• Listen! I need you go now. (Ouça! Eu preciso que você

vá agora) • O imperativo poderá marcar algumas ações, como: • fazer um convite: Let’s go now. (Vamos agora) – para

convites sempre utilizar o “Let’s”; • fazer um oferecimento: Have a piece of cake. (Tome

um pedaço de bolo); • dar uma ordem: Listen to them. (Ouça eles); • fazer um pedido: Open the door. (Abra a porta); • dar um conselho: Be careful! (Seja cuidadoso).

• Se for necessário deixar a frase mais educada basta acrescentar a expressão “please” (por favor) no começo ou no final da frase.

• Exemplos:

• Please, come with me. (Por favor, venha comigo)

• Call the doctor, please. (Ligue para o médico, por favor)

• Please, don’t scream. (Por favor, não grite)

• Wait for me, please. (Espere por mim, por favor)

• Let’s watch this film, please. (Vamos assistir a esse filme, por favor)

Exemplos (negative form)

• Exemplos:

• Do not (don’t) eat this cake. (Não coma esse bolo)

• Do not (don’t) forget to close the window. (Não esqueça de fechar a janela)

• Do not (don’t) run here. (Não corra aqui)

• Do not (don’t) put your hand here. (Não coloque a mão aqui)

Exercise

Utilize os verbos no imperativo:

• ________ your homework (do)

• ________ your house (clean)

• ________ the laundry (do)

• ________ shopping (go)

Brazilian Cuisine

• Let’s make a “feijoada”.

• First, cook the beans

• Secondly, chop the onions

• Then, pour oil and fry the garlic, the onions and the pork.

• After that, join the beans and cook until done.

Homework

• Diga como se faz uma caipirinha, utilizando o imperativo e os advérbios de sequência.

Brazilian cuisine

Some typical dishes are Feijoada, considered the country's national dish; and regional foods such as vatapá, moqueca, polenta and acarajé. There's also caruru, which consists of okra, onion, dried shrimp, and toasted nuts (peanuts and/or cashews), cooked with palm oil until a spread-like consistency is reached; moqueca capixaba, consisting of slow-cooked fish, tomato, onion and garlic, topped with cilantro; and linguiça, a mildly spicy sausage. • http://www.englishexperts.com.br/forum/exercicio-texto-

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Exercises Leia os três textos e, com suas palavras, escreva o que você compreendeu.