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 worksheet is designed for teenagers and adults who are studying participles. It provides them with the lyrics of the song where they have to fill in the gaps while listening to the song. Give ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising verbs of gerund and infinitive. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to rewrite 23 sentences beginning them with the given words.& ...
This is a worksheet for revising the use of gerund and infinitive at intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences given with the ...
This song is aimed at practicing gerund/infinitive forms. At first, students take their time to look through the lyrics and insert given words into the gaps and explain their usage. Some of the wo ...
It’s a classical grammar casino game to check students’ ability to use gerund and infinitive after certain words. The aim of the game is to find out and bet with play money (included i ...
This is a getting-to-know each other activity where students ask and answer personal questions. Apart from completing sentence stems meaningfully and talking about their own experience learners wi ...
This worksheet is very helpful for the students to practise the usage of gerunds & infinitives. There are all together 20 questions in the worksheet. The students need to fill in the spaces wi ...
This worksheet provides information on the verbs and expressions that go before a gerund or an infinitive. Some of them are translated into Spanish. There is a very long list of them, so it is mor ...
This is a workbook intended for teachers of English in our high school. This is self-learning tool allowing learners to study at their own pace. The workbook deals with the parts of speech as well ...
This is the first worksheet of a series to revise grammar points for advanced students. In this one they will revise the use of gerund & infinitive and mixed word formation. The students have ...
Explanation and examples about the use of infinitve or -ing form (verbs; question words; adjectives; phrases) + verbs that can be followed by either the infinitive or the -ing form (with and witho ...
This PowerPoint presentation is designed to be used to teach the basic use of gerunds. This PPT is designed to be used hand in hand with our Gerunds Module. This PPT starts by explaining what ge ...
After seeing how well our gerunds worksheet was received we have decided to put our entire gerunds module on Busy Teachers. We hope it serves you well. Each Gerunds Module presents various struct ...
This is a slide show presentation of the basic rules of when to use gerunds and infinitives followed by a quiz. I use this for intermediate level students. It's pretty simple but it gets the job d ...
This worksheet shows students which main verbs can be followed by gerunds and provides a few example sentences. Then they practice using these skills by doing two fill-in exercises and one matchi ...
I have created this worksheet to provide additional practice for elementary level in the field of Gerund and Infinitive. It is one fill-in exercise with simple vocabulary to avoid any difficulties ...
This is a 3-page worksheet for teaching gerund and infinitive at intermediate level. The first page is basically just a grammar guide and the other two pages have three different activities to go ...
This is a presentation to teach INFINITIVE OF PURPOSE. In the first part, it explains the usage of infinitive of purpose. Then it compares infinitive of purpose with "for + noun" structure. This i ...
You can use this presentation to teach gerund and infinitive. It includes information about gerund and infinitive, comparing these two structure, and is also followed by an exercise part. I think ...
When to use the gerund and the infinitive verb forms? This worksheet contains the rules to follow under the form of a table. Students need to write examples themselves so that they can think, dis ...
Upper Int level- based on the popular hit by Gloria Gaynor, there are two exercises. The first is a gap-filling activity to practise verbs patterns (gerunds or infinitive) and the second is a list ...
This is my first worksheet to share. It is a review/ lesson for infinitive/gerund use. The students will first see the use of various verbs followed by either gerund or infinitive in the context o ...
In this paper I briefly but comprehensively presented The Gerund Mood with its various aspects, uses and examples. It can be used by teachers as a handout or lesson plan for teaching the gerund w ...
This worksheet will be useful when studying non-finite forms of the verb - infinitive, to be exact. This construction seems to be not very easy for pupils at school and even at high school institu ...
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