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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the worksheet includes exercises to test/practice word formation, collocations, functions, modals, and gerund/infinitive. The exercises can be used either as a test or for revision. Once the exer ...
The worksheet has some gaps missing - all of the words to be provided are in a present participle form, so it can make the participles more comprehensible for the weaker students, I suggest transl ...
This worksheet contains brief descriptions of 12 situations to which students are supposed to react by using one of the verb phrases in bold. It practices verbs followed by infinitive or -ing form ...
Missing words for Jason Mraz's song Life is Wonderful. I use it to develop basic vocabulary, but it can be used to demonstrate use of full infinitive in a sentence. Can also be used to encourage s ...
Short exercise for intermediate students to practice gerunds after prepositions. I used it with learners in their fifth year to repeat the use of gerunds after certain prepositions / prepositional ...
This is a worksheet to revise and practise the use of To Infinitive or -ing Form of the verbs. It is for pre-intermediate and intermediate students. The first page consists of a revision of the ma ...
Exercise for an FCE prep, following the Cambridge test style of questions. They are random questions, very useful when you are creating a test or a mock exam. As you know, possibly the exercises a ...
This is a very simple worksheet for teaching or revising verbs of gerund and infinitive. The worksheet is recommended for pre-intermediate or intermediate students who are asked to rewrite the sen ...
A word formation worksheet. It contains two unrelated passages. Each passage has got five gaps followed by a word in brackets. Students have to use the words in brackets to form new words to fill ...
A compilation of upper level rules of gerunds and infinitives. Students decide whether it is a gerund or an infinitive that go with the rule; then write an example sentence to consolidate. Afterwa ...
A grammar guide for common verbs that follow gerunds and infinitives. Students decide whether the verbs determine a gerund or an infinitive. Then there are some basic rules for them, which are ver ...
This worksheet consists of 2 exercises to practise the use of the gerund or the infinitive. In 1) the students have to choose the correct form of the three given; in 2) they have to write the verb ...
This sheet helps students to learn when they must use the infinitive and when it is necessary to use the gerund. Students must choose the correct answer- whether to put the verb in the infinitive ...
This worksheet is for intermediate students. There are different short passages on the page with blanks to fill in, so each blank is in context rather than in separate, individual sentences. Diffe ...
This PPT introduces the function of making invitations using Gerunds and Infinitives. It is made up of two slides: in the first one different formulas that can be used to extend invitations are p ...
It is a highly pictorial test for the use of the -ing form after verbs of like or dislike. It can be used as: - a mid-unit or a final unit test ; - workheet to reinforce the use of the -ING FORM; ...
This worksheet contains 30 sentences. It provides your students with exercises on Gerund and Infinitive. It can be printed and given to your students as handouts. It can be used as a review lesson ...
This worksheet contains a brief explanation of the infinitive of purpose and different activities, including two real-life speaking tasks. I created it for my student who works as a software devel ...
This worksheet contains some action verbs and pictures. Students are required to label the picture with the appropriate verb and say whether the verb is regular or irregular. Teachers can use this ...
Appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. Students have to fill the gaps with a suitable tense or verb form of the verbs in brackets. Th ...
This worksheet contains three exercises to train your students to better use either infinitive or gerund. Note that these exercises will be vey helpful when you have already introduced the main ru ...
Tired of hearing "for" used before an infinitive instead of "to"? Use this worksheet to help your ESL students get rid of this very common mistake. The worksheet contains observation exercises, ru ...
The song worksheet is on defining infinitive with "to" and bare infinitive after certain verbs. Listen to the song and circle the correct answers. Then explain the rules.
The song worksheet contains gaps in the sentences with gerund (Thank you for ... me). Listen to the song, fill in the gaps, pay attention to the gerund. Then look through the lyrics and find othe ...
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