Language I. GERUNDS

UOE SESSION: GERUNDS AND THE INFINITVE​

Class objectives

• Introduction: Listening activity

• The Gerund: Forms and Meanings

• The Gerund and the To infinitive: Special Cases

• Transformation sentences: revision

• ​Word formation: A life of misery

USE OF ENGLISH

• The Gerund and the To infinitive

Listening for General Information

• The Infinitive and Gerunds

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Kate: Well. I’m going to use it for _________ my Facebook and Twitter all the time so I can _______ in touch with friends

Kate: ...and I’m going to use it to _________ too. I love _______ games but hopefully, I won't _______ too much time doing that.

Pete: Ah, I wonder. Well, what about _________ it for checking your e-mails?

Kate: Emails, yeah, I guess I could __________ my emails but hey, emails are so yesterday, right?

Pete: Guess I better think of ________ one myself when I have some money.

The Gerund

FORM AND MEANING​

Access to FCE

• Page 124: activity 9

• Page 125: activity 10

The Gerund and the Infinitive

SPECIAL CASES

Access to FCE

• Page 126: activity 11

• Page 127: activity 13

• Page 128: activity 15

• Page 129: activity 18

Read the text called A life of misery on page 151 from Access to FCE and complete the blanks with the correct form of the word in capital letters.

WORD FORMATION

​Handout

House and Home

Page 33

Thanks!

UOE SESSION