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 shows the difference between the usage of Gerund and Infinitive. It can be used while explaining the grammar rules. It contains the list of the verbs which can be used either with ...
This is a collection of verses and choruses from various songs containing gerunds and infinitives. It does not involve singing but may be an interesting taks to complete and provoke students' inte ...
There are certain words in English that are usually followed by an infinitive or gerund. Certain words are followed by an infinite verb with or without ‘to’, Infinitive as the Subject ...
Introduction of the basic rules on how gerunds and infinitives work. This worksheet also contains a fill in the blanks exercise with examples. The worksheet is self- explanatory. That's why stude ...
Five exercises to practise verbs followed by gerunds and infinitives with intermediate students (matching, paraphrasing, gap-filling, answering the questions). Keys are added. The worksheet is edi ...
Verbs followed by a gerund or infinitive in Vietnamese and English version. It helps learners to memorize the verb forms. It can be used for all kinds of levels especially for the pre-intermediate ...
A brief grammar guide concerning the usage of “to” after the verbs “let, make” (very informative) and three nice exercises practicing the structure “Complex Object wi ...
A brief grammar guide (very informative) and three nice exercises practicing the structure “Complex Object with "to"” both in speech and in writing. Ex. I. Look at the pictures and say ...
These are some exercise practice for gerunds and infinitives, It is a fill in the gap excerise with diffrent verbs in which the students have to decide wheter to use infinitive or gerund, the seco ...
This worksheet is a list of household activities that your students need to rank according to how much experience they've got with each of them. They will be marking them as follows:
1. I can do ...
Initial task (write three song meanings on the board, ask students to listen to the song and choose the most suitable sentence to explain the meaning of the song) Gap-fill and Matching Exercise. ( ...
The worksheet contains a table that systematizes the different uses of the gerund, to-infinitive and bare infinitive. The table is followed by two gap-filling exercises.
Extensive explanations for Spanish students (with some translations) of the uses in English of the bare infinitive, complete infinitive or gerund after certain verbs. Also exercises at the end, b ...
An exercise to check the knowledge on the usage of simple infinitive vs gerund. Example: Put the verb into the correct form. Sometimes either is possible. 1. She tried to avoid __________ my que ...
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