This is the infinitive and gerund section of Busy Teacher. You will find 134 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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This exercise is good to train your verbals usage in English. You'll find it helping and pretty entertaining. If you can't find the answers, you may contact me. You will practice your list of word ...
A worksheet that deals with gerund. First the rules but not in the traditional way. The students discover the rules on their own. Then you can go over them together. The second page contains extra ...
This worksheet helps teachers familiarise students with verb patterns. It was based on the second part of the New Total English Pre-Intermediate course book and the last few slides include some tr ...
This worksheet is aimed to clarify and practice the differents between to or -ing usage after special group of verbs (regret, forget, stop, etc.). It is not a presentation though, so I use it for ...
This was used to teach infinitives. In addition to the 3 main rules for when to use infinitives, it also includes 3 short exercises for students to practice with. I also used an article from the n ...
I'm sharing an activity for students to practice the use of gerunds and infinitives through songs. Students are supposed to choose the correct verb alternative (gerund or infinitive) and then list ...
A gap fill exercise to practise gerunds and prepositions. I've left the document in word so that you can alter the sentences to suit your students' needs. The answers are at the bottom of the shee ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising gerunds and infinitives at pre-intermediate level. There's a simple activity in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with a gerund ...
This document consists of the infinitives and gerunds and their usage, it's a good material to understand the difference between the two.You can make your students learn the verbs which take gerun ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for revising the differences between to-infinitive and infinitive without to. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to choose the correct opt ...
The chants will help you to memorize some verbs which require 'to infinitive' or 'gerund' after them. Catchy rhythm (1-2-3-4) which stuck in students' memory and make learning both useful and fun. ...
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This is a worksheet for teaching or revising infinitive and gerund at pre-intermediate level. There's a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences with a gerund or ...
Students work in small groups. They must take turns to complete the stem sentences correctly. Some of the sentences must be true and some lies. The other students must mark on their sheet if they ...
This is an activity to practise verbs that are followed by the -ing form or "to" infinitive after verbs. It is aimed at KET level (A2+) and can either be used as a bingo game or as noughts and cro ...
This worksheet was made to test how much students remember about gerund and infinitive. It can be used as a practice worksheet or to revise or even to test knowledge. There are 3 tasks: first ss h ...
This worksheet is designed to practice infinitives. Students listen to a fun song and complete a gap fill activity then write complete sentences using a list of given verbs with and without to. Th ...
This worksheet is based on the episode from the cartoon “Happy Feet”. The story goes that a penguin named Mumble (Happy Feet) has to leave the community because he’s the only one ...
It’s often difficult to explain subjective infinitive construction to the ss, so I made up some questions for discussion and samples of sentences to be completed with ss’ own answers t ...
This worksheet consists of different types of exercises based on some verb patterns such as gerund, infinitive, make and do, say or tell and use to. It is a classic workpaper especially prepared f ...
There is a brief explanation of the verbs that normally go with a gerund, the verbs that go with infinitive and some other are presented which can be followed either by a gerund or infinitive with ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the differences between gerund form and infinitive. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to underline the correct form, correct the mi ...
This is a grammar quiz on gerund, it can be used as a grammar quiz for both prep and secondary ss. It is fully concentrated on using gerund and infinitive, it is helpful to check if students under ...
This worksheet is for the students to practise the varieties of the infinitive form of the verbs. Different types of exercises are here to test whether the students are able to identify which one ...
All teachers have hard times explaining the use of either infinitive or gerund after verbs. The main principle here is: the more practice - the better. This powerpoint presentation is designed to ...
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