Imperative

Using one of the platforms for finding a tutor or language exchange partner, practice the speaking activities below. 

Partner Speaking Exercise:

• Your French-speaking partner and yourself are going to play a French game… around the use of imperatives!

The game is called “Jacques a dit”. The concept is the same as the English “Simon says”: do what Jacques said, but don’t do it if the command is not preceded by “Jacques a dit”. Try to give orders using the three different persons.

• You don’t have to play if you don’t want to, but you can still give orders to each other!

Examples: Touchons notre nez ! Regarde-moi ! Dessinez un mouton !

Independent Speaking Exercise:

• Imagine someone has taken the following items from you. Make two sentences in the imperative to ask each of those things back:

1)  with the informal person “tu”, using the noun for the object

2) with the formal/plural “vous”, using an object pronoun

You can use the verb “donne” (to give) or “rendre” (to give back).

Example: des clés de voiture => Rends-moi mes clés de voiture ! Rends-les moi !

• Une gomme 
• Des livres
• Un vélo