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⏱️ 12 mins • A1 Grammar

🛝 Imperatives & Let's: Playground Fun!

Learn how to give friendly orders, say what not to do, and invite your friends to play with toys and games!

📌 How to Use This Lesson

👩‍🏫 Teacher Guide

1. Read the 4 rules with the class. Then do the 12 items in 12 minutes.

2. Check the answers together. Look for no "you", no "to" and no "-ing" after a command or Let's.

🎒 Learner Guide

1. First, study the 4 simple rules in the colorful Rule Table and listen to the example sentences.

2. Next, complete all 12 exercises below to earn your Playground Champion badge!

Vibrant cartoon playground with children sharing toys, throwing a red ball, sliding down a green slide, swinging on a ye

🎪 Playing together safely: Remember to share the ball, swing, and slide!

📋 The 4 Golden Rules

Core Grammar

Start an order with the plain verb, with no "I" or "you" before it.

Use the simple base verb directly to give an action instruction.

👉 "Wait for your friends."

Put Don't before the verb to say no or stop.

Never say "Not push" or "Don't to push".

🛑 "Don't push your friends."

Use Let's + a plain verb to ask friends to do something together.

"Let's" means "Let us" (you + me together).

🤝 "Let's go to the park."

Add please at the start or end of an order to be polite.

Use a comma when "please" is at the end of the sentence.

✨ "Come here, please."

💡 Super Combination Example

"Let's fly my kite, but don't run into the road."

🧸 Playground & Toy Vocabulary Bank:

⚽ ball 🪆 doll 🪁 kite 🧩 puzzle 🪑 swing 🛝 slide ➰ rope 🧗 climb 🦘 jump 🎯 throw

🎯 Practice Challenge (12 Items)

Work through the 4 exercise zones: Multiple Choice, Rewrite, Fill in the Gaps, and Friend's Message Correction!

Score 100%

Part 1 • Multiple Choice (ball)

1. You want your friend to toss the toy to you. Which sentence is the correct order?

____ a. Throw the ball to me! ____ b. You throw the ball to me!

Part 1 • Multiple Choice (stop)

2. You see your brother doing something unsafe on the playground. Which sentence correctly tells him to stop?

____ a. Don't jump on the swing. ____ b. Don't to jump on the swing.

Part 1 • Multiple Choice (polite)

3. You want to ask your friend politely to wait at the slide. Which sentence is correct?

____ a. Please wait at the slide. ____ b. Please waits at the slide.

Part 2 • Rewrite with Let's (puzzle)

4. Rewrite the sentence using Let's:

"I want to do this puzzle."

____ (Type the full new sentence...)

Part 2 • Rewrite with Let's (kite)

5. Rewrite the sentence using Let's:

"I want to go down the slide."

____ (Type the full new sentence...)

Part 2 • Rewrite with please (polite)

6. Make the sentence polite with the word please. Write it at the start or at the end:

"Give me the rope."

____ (Type the full new sentence...)

A cheerful handwritten notepad note pinned with a thumb tack, surrounded by colored pencils, a toy jump rope and a small

📝 Keep reading: Fill in the missing words and check your friends' playground messages!

Part 3 • Fill in the Gap (first)

7. You want your friend to throw you the ball. Be polite. Fill in the missing word:

____ throw me the ball.

Part 3 • Fill in the Gap (stop)

8. Tell someone to stop because the tree is dangerous. Fill in the missing negative word:

____ climb the tall tree!

Part 3 • Fill in the Gap (polite)

9. Ask for the ball in a very polite way. Fill in the polite word:

Pass the ball, ____ .

Part 4 • Fix the Message (order)

10. Your friend left this note, but it has a mistake. Fix and write the correct sentence:

❌ Message: "You wait near the swing."

____ (Write the corrected sentence...)

Part 4 • Fix the Message (stop)

11. Your friend wrote a safety rule with a mistake. Fix and write the correct sentence:

❌ Message: "Not throw the ball into the street."

____ (Write the corrected sentence...)

Part 4 • Fix the Message (together)

12. Your friend invites you to play in a note, but the verb form is wrong. Fix and write the correct sentence:

❌ Message: "Let's playing with the kite!"

____ (Write the corrected sentence...)

🎉

Awesome Job, Playground Explorer!

Now you know how to give commands with plain verbs, stop unsafe actions with Don't, and invite friends with Let's!

Grammar: Toys, Games, and Playgrounds

🛝 Imperatives & Let's: Playground Fun!

📌 How to Use This Lesson

📋 The 4 Golden Rules

🎯 Practice Challenge (12 Items)

Awesome Job, Playground Explorer!

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