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Freer practice for inf and gerund

Verb patterns, curiosity and pre-


intermediate learners
This is an activity I did with my pre-intermediate learners today, to give
them extra opportunity to use the verb patterns that we had looked at
in their previous lesson, in a more personalised way. It doesnt require
much preparation, as it mostly draws on learner-generated content
as well as their natural curiosity! What it does require is lots of use of
the verb patterns in question, including questions and, potentially,
third-person structures.

Time:
+- 40 minutes (could have run for longer but 40 minutes was
sufficient)
Materials:
One teacher-made model:
image of me taken from openclipart.org via Google search for images
licensed for commercial reuse with modification; bubbles from
powerpoint shapes!
One learner handout:

Here is the power point that I made with both (so that the teacher one
can be adapted and projected/printed, while the learner one can be
printed)
Language focus:
Verb patterns specifically:

I want to infinitive
Id love to infinitive
I enjoy verb-ing
Im fed up with verb-ing
I hope to infinitive
Im thinking of verb-ing
Im looking forward to -verb-ing.
[although adaptable to whichever verb patterns youve been looking at
which can be personalised]
Procedure:
Elicit the target verb patterns (that you have looked at in the
previous lesson) and board them (if using projection, then in an
area of the the board that is not used by the projector screen!) in
categories according to pattern.
Either project, or hand out printouts of, your teacher model.
Put the learners in pairs and get them to look at the model.
Tell them these are your answers to the sentence stems given by
the verb patterns.
Get them to ask you questions in order to guess which
stem/pattern each answer/thought cloud corresponds with. (The
answers are bare infinitives so there are no linguistic clues and
learners have to put the answers into the correct form according
to the verb pattern).
Encourage them to find out more about the answer once they
have guessed correctly:
E.g. :
Learners: Do you enjoy speaking Italian?
Teacher: Yes but theres something I enjoy more! Guess again!
Learners: Do you enjoy going horse-riding?
Teacher: Yes, I do! Very much!
Learners: Do you do it here? Where do you go? etc
Once they have finished guessing and quizzing you, hand out the
blank student handout for learners to complete with their own
ideas.
Put them in pairs (get them to work with a new partner)
Ask them to take turns asking questions (and finding out more
about their partners thought clouds once they have guessed
correctly) until they have correctly guessed all of the clouds.
Monitor and collect feedback for a delayed feedback slot.
Optional extra:
Regroup the learners so that each new group consists of either
person A or person B of each of the AB pairs from the previous
activity.
Ask learners to tell their new group what theyve learnt about
their partner, using the verb patterns.

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