Optional English 11. Gerund and Participle

Period: 9 Date of teaching: /10/2008
CONSOLIDATION

I. OBJECTIVES: After the lesson, the students:
• Will able to revise how to use the verbs in the form of Gerund and Present participle
• will be able to rewrite sentences using Perfect gerund and Perfect participle
II. PREPARATION: Handouts
III. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Give handouts and ask Ss to do Exercises
Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the
correct forms: infinitive, gerund or present
participle
Have Ss do the exercise in 7 minutes
Walk around the class to observe
Call Ss to read aloud and explain their answers
Ask the whole class to check and correct
Give the corrects answers and explain more if
necessary
Exercise 2: Decide whether the -ing form in
italics is Gerund (G) or Present participle
(Pr P)?
Walk around the class to observe
Call Ss to read aloud and explain their answers
Give the corrects answers and explain more if
necessary
Exercise 3: Rewrite the sentences using a
present participle or a perfect participle.
Walk around the class to observe and offer help
if necessary
Call Ss to read aloud and explain their answers

Ask Ss to write sentence by sentence on the
board
Ask the whole class to check and correct
Give the corrects answers and explain more if
necessary
4. Homework
Ask Ss to redo the exercises
Take handouts and do Exercises
Work individually, then compare the answers with a
partner's
Suggested answers:
1. to come 6. to make
2. keeping 7. listening
3. doing 8. not to make
4. playing 9. asking, to lend
5. change 10. flying
Work in pairs
Suggested answers:
1. Gerund 5. Gerund
2. Present participle 6. Present participle
3. Present participle 7. Present participle
4. Gerund 8. Present participle
Work individually, then exchange their results with a
friend
Suggested answers:
1. Switching off the lights, we went to bed.
2. Asking his mother's permission, the boy went out to
play.
3. Having drunk too much, he didn't drive home
himself.

4. Having written two tests today, we are very
exhausted.
5. Knowing that he was poor, I offered to pay his
school fees
6. Filling the washing machine, she switched it on.
7. Having worked in the garden all day, we were
sunburned in the evening.
8. Thinking we were lost, he offered to show us the way
home
9. Not having slept for two days, she wasn't able to
concentrate.
10. Not having seen him for ages, I didn't recognize
him.
IV. COMMENTS:
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HANDOUT
Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms: infinitive, gerund or present participle
1. Tell him (come) __________ to see me at once.
2. Would you mind (keep) _________ quiet for a moment?
3. Years ago, women spent much time (do) __________ housework
4. Teenagers waste much time (play) ______ computer games.
5. Nothing will make me (change) __________ my mind.
6. He’s expecting (make) __________ a trip to Ha Long Bay.
7. Are his ideas worth (listen) _____________ to?.
8. He’ll try (not make) __________ the same mistake again.
9. It’s no use (ask) _________ him (lend) _________ you any money

10. I saw a flock of birds (fly) __________ in the sky
Exercise 2: Decide whether the -ing form in italics is Gerund (G) or Present participle (Pr P)?
______1. I think you should start practising now!
______2. It's a waste of time playing computer games
______3. There are some people waiting to see you
______4. I can't help thinking of my parents while I'm away from them
______5. I hate doing the washing up
______6. I saw him chatting with a girl in a cafe
______7. Talking to her friend, she forgot everything around her.
______8. Walking home, she met an old friend
Exercise 3: Rewrite the sentences using a present participle or a perfect participle.
1. We switched off the lights and we went to bed
→........................................................................................................................................................
2. The boy asked his mother's permission and then went out to play.
→........................................................................................................................................................
3. He didn't drive home himself as he had drunk too much,
→........................................................................................................................................................
4. We have written two tests today, so we are very exhausted.
→........................................................................................................................................................
5. I knew that he was poor, so I offered to pay his school fees
→........................................................................................................................................................
6. She filled the washing machine and switched it on.
→........................................................................................................................................................
7. We had worked in the garden all day and were sunburned in the evening.
→........................................................................................................................................................
8. He offered to show us the way home because he thought we were lost
→........................................................................................................................................................
9. She had not slept for two days and therefore wasn't able to concentrate
→........................................................................................................................................................
10. Since I had not seen him for ages, I didn't recognize him.

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