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Q Imperatives. Complete the sentences.
► Be with those glasses-they break easily.

1 .................in and close the door.

2 Don't............. Everything will be all right.
3 Goodbye!.................. a good journey.
4 Look..................! There's a car coming.
5 .................yourself at home.
6 ..................! I can't turn the water off!
7 Goodnight.................... well.
8 'Where's the Director's office?' 'I'll show you.................... me.'

9 ' a good holiday.' 'Thanks. I'm sure we will.'
10 Don't.................to phone us when you arrive.

^ Grammar in a text. Read the text and put in imperatives from the box.

Use a dictionary if necessary.

I - 5: fetch hold let pick put
6-10: continue get get open throw

I I - 16: blow drink find kneel remove telephone

Instructio ns fo r giving a cat a pill

I ....................... up the cat. 2 ....................... it in your left arm like a baby.
3 ....................... your right forefinger and thumb at the sides of the cat’s mouth and push
the mouth open, holding the pill in your left hand. Put the pill into the cat’s mouth.
4 ........................ the cat close its mouth and swallow the pill.

Pick up the pill from the floor and 5 ...................... the cat from behind the sofa. Pick up
the cat. Hold it in your left arm like a baby and 6 ....................... as before.
Fetch the cat from the bedroom and 7 ....................... the pill away. 8 .......................
another pill out of the packet. Hold the cat in your left arm, holding its back legs tightly with
your left hand. 9 ....................... the cat’s mouth and push the pill to the back of the mouth
with your right forefinger. Hold the mouth shut while you count to ten.

10 the pill out of the goldfish bowl. Get the cat down from the top of the
wardrobe.Wrap the cat in a towel. 11 ....................... on the floor, holding the cat firmly

between your knees. Put the pill in the end of a drinking straw. Force the cat’s mouth open
with a pencil and 12 ...................... down the drinking straw.

Check the label to make sure the pill is not harmful to humans. 13 ....................... a glass
of water to take the taste away. Put a bandage on your arm and 14 ....................... the
blood from the carpet with cold water and soap. 15 ....................... the fire brigade to get
the cat down from the tree across the road.

16 a new home for the cat. Get a dog.

O Internet exercise. Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find simple sentences with the following

phrasal verbs: pick up, bring back, switch on, throw away, fill up. Write them here.

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