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This is the infinitive and gerund section of Busy Teacher. You will find 52 worksheets on this topic as well as a very useful article with some suggestions on how to explain the difference between the two to your students. This worksheet has two straightforward infinitive and gerund practice activities for your intermediate level students. In both exercises students have to fill in blanks with the correct form of the verb provided. You can adjust the difficulty of the activity by having students work in pairs or groups to complete the exercise; this will obviously make it easier than completing the worksheet individually. Be sure to review the answers as a class before moving on to the next activity. For more ideas, look at the other worksheets in this section.
Students will need to learn when to use the infinitive and gerund forms of a verb. This is a skill that native speakers take for granted. Using the infinitive when a gerund is required just sounds wrong and unnatural but English language learners will not hear that until they have become very familiar with the correct uses of these forms. The key here is practice, practice, practice so include a variety of exercises when studying these topics and be sure to do review exercises that include both.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Are Infinitive and Gerund?
In grammar, infinitive is the name for certain verb forms that exist in many languages. In the usual (traditional) description of English, the infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the particle to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. Gerund (abbreviated ger) is a term used to refer to various non-finite verb forms in various languages: however, it most often refers to an action noun, by analogy with its use as applied to English or Latin. The word 'gerund' in English comes from the Latin term gerundium, of the same meaning. Gerundium itself comes from the gerundive of the Latin verb gero, gerundus, meaning "to be carried out". In English, the gerund is identical in form to the present participle (ending in -ing) and can behave as a verb within a clause (so that it may be modified by an adverb or have an object), but the clause as a whole (sometimes consisting of only one word, the gerund itself) acts as a noun within the larger sentence.
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Song Worksheet: Thank You For Loving Me by Bon Jovi Song Worksheet: Thank You For Loving Me by Bon JoviThis worksheet can be used after studying Gerunds and Infinitives as a summing up activity.1. Ask the students to fill in the gaps in the song with the approprate verbal (Gerund or Infinitive)2. L ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Make, Let, Get Make, Let, GetThis worksheet has been made for practising the verb pattern: a verb + object + infinitive (with/without to). There is a short explanation of the meaning of each pattern followed by three differen ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Infinitive Or Gerund Practice (+ key) Infinitive Or Gerund Practice (+ key)3 different exercises to revise gerund or infinitive forms after nouns, verbs & adjectives. In 1 the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct infirnitive or gerund form of the verbs ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet: One Love by Bob Marley Song Worksheet: One Love by Bob MarleyOne good song to teach Imperatives. Bob Marley did it. Enjoy this song and use this worksheet to practise with your students.One love is the most popular song from Bob Marley, look for the lyrics ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Infinitive or Gerund Infinitive or GerundGENERAL REVISION OF VERBALSTASK 1. Fill in the gaps with the necessary form of the verb from the brackets. Add prepositions if necessary.Rewrite the sentences using the correct form of participle ...
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Grammar Exercises (Hight School / Bachillerato) Grammar Exercises (Hight School / Bachillerato)This worksheet includes two exercises with fifteen sentences each. Exercise number one: rephrasing fifteen sentences using relative clauses (who,which,that,whose,whom,when,where). Exercise number ...
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Intermediate
 
Gerund Or Infinitive? Gerund Or Infinitive?A brief explanation about the use of gerunds or infinitives after other verbs, prepositions, etc. Then there are 30 sentences that the students have to fill in by putting the verbs in brackets in ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet Gerunds and Infinitives WorksheetThe present worksheet was composed with exercises from different bibliographical and electronic sources. Students will start the practice by selecting the correct form of the verb from the 2 choic ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Gerund and Infinitive: Elementary Worksheet Gerund and Infinitive: Elementary WorksheetHere's a 2-page worksheet for teaching gerund and infinitives. There are explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 2 exercises in which students are asked to fill the ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Gerund or Infinitive? Gerund or Infinitive?A fill-in the gaps activity on gerund and infinitive form especially for the begginner and the pre-intermediate level learners of English. The activity covers 10 fill in the space type of question ...
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Elementary
 
English Competition English CompetitionThe powerpoint presentation contains a spelling section, an articles section, an infinitives and gerunds section, passive section, a reported speech section, a present perfect section, a present c ...
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Pre-Intermediate
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