LANGUAGE IN USE

IMPERATIVE
1. Read the five sentences below from the text on page 32.
Recycle.
Ride a bike.
Take the bus to school.
Reduce lunch time rubbish.
Keep doors and windows closed when heating or using refrigerative air conditioning.

Now mark the correct answers.

a. In all sentences the verbs are used to:
( ) encourage people to save energy. ( ) describe people’s habits about saving energy.
b. The sentences contain verbs in the:
( ) Present Simple tense. ( ) Imperative.
c. This verb form is used to (mark more than one option):
( ) give orders. ( ) make suggestions.
( ) give advice or instructions. ( ) talk about general truths and facts.
d. In the sign Don’t waste our future. Recycle. don’t is used to:
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( ) form the negative Imperative. ( ) emphasize a WA FU
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For questions e and f consider the fragment:
Keep doors and windows closed when heating…

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( ) Don’t keep doors and windows closed when heating…

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( ) Don’t keep doors and windows open when heating…

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f. To make the instruction emphatic, we can say:

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( ) Do keep doors and windows closed when heating…
( ) Please, keep doors and windows closed when heating…
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2. Go back to the mind map and circle other verbs in the Imperative.

3. Stop wasting energy and money! Complete each tip with a verb form from the box as
in the example.

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a. If possible, fill up the washing machine,

Neamov/Shutterstock/Glow Images tumble dryer or dishwasher: one full load uses less
energy than two half loads.

b. Always the lights when you leave a room.

c. appliances on standby and remember not

to laptops and mobile phones on charge
unnecessarily.
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d. energy saving lightbulbs. They last up to

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10 times longer than ordinary bulbs, and using one can

save you around £55 over the lifetime of the bulb.

e. a home energy check. Just answer some

simple questions about your home and we’ll give you a
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free, impartial report telling you how you can save up to

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£280 a year on your household energy bills.

Available at: <www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Take-action/Money-saving-tips/Energy-saving-tips/Top-ten-tips>.

Accessed in July 2012.
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IMPERATIVE AND PRESENT SIMPLE
4. Read the eco facts and the eco tips about saving energy.

Eco fact
Microwaves use ten per cent less energy
than a conventional oven.

Eco tip
Freeze any extra food you have made and
eat it later.

In the kitchen

Eco fact
Water butts are available from your local
council. Using rain water on your garden is
better than using fresh water from the
hose.
Ilustrações: Sirayama/Arquivo da editora

Eco tips
Use a watering can or a bucket for
watering plants and car washing whenever
possible instead of a hosepipe. This can
save 60 litres of water every time.
Collect rainwater in water butts and use a
watering can instead of a hose.
In the garden

THE ISOS Green Guide. Available at <www.isoshousing.co.uk/Isos%20Housing%20Limited/GreenGuide.pdf>. Accessed in July 2012.

Now choose the correct answers.

a. The verbs in the Imperative are used for:
( ) Eco facts. ( ) Eco tips.
b. The verbs in the Present Simple tense are used for:
( ) Eco facts. ( ) Eco tips.

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5. Make simple changes to your daily life! Complete the eco facts and eco tips with the
correct verb form of the verbs in parentheses.

Eco fact
The average household
£33 a year by leaving appliances like TVs,
DVD players, computers and games
consoles on standby. (waste)

Eco tip
a. Televisions and personal
entertainment equipment all chargers at the wall
for small appliances like mobile phones
once they are charged, or they will
continue to use energy. (turn off)

Eco fact
The average household
Go to
about one tonne of waste per year — the Language
Reference
same weight as an average car. (produce) p. 152.

Eco tip
to carry reusable
shopping bags when you go out shopping
b. Waste and recycle old plastic ones. (remember)

Eco fact
Ilustrações: Sirayama/Arquivo da editora

Food waste harmful to

the environment. (be)

Eco tip
about portion sizes.
There are many useful tools available to
measure portions, from a tablespoon to a
spaghetti measurer. (think)
c. Shopping
THE ISOS Green Guide. Available at: <www.isoshousing.co.uk/Isos%20Housing%20Limited/GreenGuide.pdf>. Accessed in July 2012.

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