Eileen Eileen

Gerunds vs Infinitives

Description

This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives as verb patterns that follow certain verbs. The focus is on meaning differences (purpose, preference, intention, activity) rather than memorizing long verb lists. Students explore how verb choice changes sentence meaning, including key contrasts such as stop doing vs stop to do.

Materials

Abc Board
Abc Exercises
Abc Printed materials
Abc Projector

Main Aims

  • To enable students to accurately use gerunds and infinitives after common verbs and understand basic meaning differences.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To distinguish verbs followed by gerunds vs infinitives.
  • To understand meaning differences (stop doing vs stop to do).
  • To reduce common errors such as "decided responding".
  • To integrate emergency-context vocabulary naturally.

Procedure

Activation (25-30 minutes) • Let the students wake up and start the day with more energy and enthusiasm.

Quick dynamic. Work in pairs. Both will say a word at the same time. Then, they'll need to find a coincidence between both words, for example: "Sun" - "water" "beach!" - beach!"

Vocabulary (4-6 minutes) • Gain more vocabulary.

Ask students to give you the vocabulary cards of the day. Teacher checks them in case of spelling mistakes or wring definition. Put participation on the Excel.

Presentation (38-40 minutes) • Help students understand how verb patterns affect meaning and structure.

Teacher introduces Infinitives. Shows a list of common verbs that go with infinitives. -Is this about intention or purpose? -Did they choose this action? Teacher introduces Gerunds. Shows a list of common verbs that go with gerunds. -Is this about an activity? -Did the action continue or stop? Teacher introduces dual verbs. Shows a list of common verbs that can go with infinitives or gerunds. Explains some of them have the same meaning and some others change in meaning.

Controlled Practice (20-22 minutes) • Consolidate understanding of gerunds and infinitives through contextual decision-making.

Students work together answering the exercise. Students choose the correct form of the verb in parenthesis: gerund or infinitive. One by one, they read a sentence, give the answer, and re-read it complete. Teacher corrects if necessary.

Production (20-22 minutes) • Encourage meaningful production using gerunds and infinitives in context.

Students work in pairs. Scenario: "There was a choking incident during a high-risk case." Students must write: -2 sentences with infinitives -2 sentences with gerunds -1 sentence with stop + ing -1 sentence with stop + to + verb Teacher monitors and reformulates key errors.

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