Transcript Imperatives are used in the following ways

Project One---Starting Your Business
Business Equipment
Teaching Objectives
1. To enable Ss to talk about business
equipment
2. To review languages for giving instructions
and practice form filling
Teaching steps
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Step 1. Lead in
Step 2. Vocabulary and grammar
Step 3. Text A: office equipment
Step 4. Text B: Giving instructions
Step 5. Classroom exercises
Lead-in
Questions:
• 1 How much business equipment have
you seen? List them.
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2 What business equipment have
you used before? Can you describe its
instructions for use?
Vocabulary
Grammar - Imperatives
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Positive forms use the infinitive
e.g. Press ‘delete’ to remove the file.
Negative forms use Don’t or Never.
e.g. Don’t /Never leave the photocopier on overnight.
Imperatives are used in the following ways .
·To give orders or instructions
e.g. Call the engineer if it doesn’t work .
·To make informal requests
(often made more polite with will you?)
e.g. Pass me that pen, will you?
Some and any
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some and any are used in the following ways .
Some refers to an unspecified quantity.
e.g. We’ve got some new computers.
e.g. I don’t like some of their products.
Any refers to a complete lack of something .
e.g. There isn’t any coffee left.
Any is used to form questions.( Some is also used in polite
requests .)
e.g. Do you have any photocopier paper?
e.g. Would you like some coffee?
Note! Negatives with there is /are can be formed two ways.
e.g. There isn’t any paper left.
There aren’t any disks left.
e.g. There’s no paper left.
There are no disks left.
Countable and uncountable nouns
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Countable and uncountable nouns have the following forms.
Countable： a computer , two computers
Uncountable： equipment, a set of equipment
Uncountable nouns take a singular verb.
Countable and uncountable nouns are used in the following
ways.
There is a printer.
There is some equipment .
There are some disks.
There are a lot of books.
There is a lot of paper.
There aren’t many staples.
There isn’t much toner.
We only have a few computers. There is a little stationery left.
Text A
Office equipment
Reading Practice
Read the two ads for photocopiers
and do the following exercises.
Two Advertisements
Read the ads again and look at the
sentences below. Choose “Right” or
“ Doesn’t say” for each sentence.
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1 The Agfa X220 has a lot of functions and is a convenient size
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
2 Both copiers can make documents bigger and smaller.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
3 Agfa will back the photocopier after three years.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
4 The Xerox has a 5- year guarantee.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
5 The copiers can be bought or rented.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
6 The Xerox is a faster copier than the Agfa.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
7 If the customer buys the Xerox, the printer costs only ￡198.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
8 The Agfa can staple documents together.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
Speaking
Speaking
Reading
Text B Giving the instructions
Listening
The Accounts Dept at PYRAMID
HAS bought a new shredder.
The secretary Anna, has a
problem.
She telephones Becky in the
Purchasing Dept.
Listening materials
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B= Becky A = Anna
B Purchasing
A Hi, Becky. It’s Anna from Accounts here.
B Hi.
A Becky, you know that shredder we’ve just bought?
B Yes?
A Well, everyone keeps asking how to use it and I can’t find the operating
instructions.
B Ah! Now I think they may still be here. Hold on a second …yes, I have
got them here, Anna, What do you want to know?
A Well, What to do if it doesn’t work. You know, things like that.
B Well, it says here that the machine jams if you insert too much paper
into it. If that happens, press the red button, remove the excess paper and
start again with less paper.
A Right. Are there any other possible problems?
B The motor overheats sometimes. If switches off automatically. Just leave
it for 15-30 minutes before you switch it on again.
A Ok, I’ve got all that. Is there anything else I should know?
B Yes, there are a few things to be careful about—like never put your
fingers in the shredder.
A That’s a bit obvious ,isn’t?
B And be careful with long hair and loose articles of clothing like ties.
And that’s it.
A Thanks, Becky. I’ll put a notice with the instructions on the wall next to
the shredder.
B Good idea.
Answer
Speaking
• Give operating instructions for
the following equipment
Exercises
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Imperatives: Use the correct form of the following verbs to
complete the instructions below.
Install
delete
dial
file
phone tick
email stop
1. Don’t install the new program until you have removed the old
version first.
2. To get an outside line, _______________ nine first and then the
number.
3. _______________ it to her –she hasn’t got the right software. Fax
it to her instead.
4. Make a copy of the invoice and_______________ it in the
payments folder.
5. _______________ the video until they’ve seen the bit about our
new products .
6. Look at the list and_______________ the ones you want .
7. _______________ him now-he’s in a meeting and doesn’t want to
be disturbed.
8. _______________ the old files. Copy them onto a floppy disk and
keep it safe.
Thank you!