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    This document provides the lesson plan for a lesson on using gerunds and infinitives for a low-intermediate adult ESL class. The lesson plan includes objectives, materials, and steps for a warm-up, presentation, practice, production, and closure. Key steps include reviewing infinitives, introducing gerunds, providing a chart comparing gerund and infinitive use, drilling examples, and having students create and perform dialogs using gerunds and infinitives.

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    This document provides the lesson plan for a lesson on using gerunds and infinitives for a low-intermediate adult ESL class. The lesson plan includes objectives, materials, and steps for a warm-up, presentation, practice, production, and closure. Key steps include reviewing infinitives, introducing gerunds, providing a chart comparing gerund and infinitive use, drilling examples, and having students create and perform dialogs using gerunds and infinitives.

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    Katie Williams

    INTR 612

    Infinitives & Gerunds


    Context: Low-intermediate Adult ESL
    Objectives: 1) Students will be able to use gerunds and infinitives after the
    appropriate verbs, 2) Students will be able to use gerunds and infinitives in a dialog
    about hobbies
    Materials: Chart, Bingo game

    Warm-up
    To warm up, I would activate students background knowledge by having them
    review a structure they already knowinfinitive forms of verbs used as an object
    (complement). I would show pictures of activities and prompt them to complete the
    the sentence I like with the appropriate infinitive form (Ex. I like to play soccer.)

    Show students, using PowerPoint or marker board, that to play soccer is a verb
    that is being used as a noun. (Ex. What do you like? To play soccer.)

    Repeat this with a few more pictures

    Presentation
    Introduce a new way to turn a verb into a noun (gerunds)

    Using the same examples from the warm-up, replace the infinitive form with the
    gerund form (Ex. I like to play soccer becomes I like playing soccer.)

    Show students that this form is often used to make a verb into a subject (at the front
    of the sentence)

    Give students a chart with the few most common verbs that 1) require a gerund, 2)
    require an infinitive, and 3) can take either form. Teacher will explain the three
    dierent categories. Teacher will also explain Bolingers principle.

    Practice
    Students will take a few minutes to read/study the chart

    Students will engage in a whole-class, teacher-led, oral drill to practice using the
    correct verb form. Teacher will have an activity on the screen such as speak
    English and the drill will go like this:

    - T: I want

    - Ss: to speak English.

    - T: I need

    - Ss: to speak English.

    - T: I enjoy

    - Ss: speaking English.

    - T: I practice

    - Ss: speaking English.

    For verbs that can take either an infinitive or a gerund (like, love, etc.) the teacher will
    prompt the students to practice BOTH forms orally during the drill, for example:

    Katie Williams

    INTR 612
    - T: I like

    - Ss: to speak English.

    - T: OR I like..

    - Ss: speaking English.

    Teacher will lead the class in a game of bingo for more practice (see materials)

    Production
    Students will work in pairs to construct a dialog using at least 2 verbs that require a
    gerund, two that require an infinitive, and 2 that could take either.

    Students will perform their dialogs as a pair

    Closure
    Teacher will ask some pairs to volunteer to perform their dialog for the class

    Teacher will review the rules for using infinitives and gerunds, checking for students
    understanding

    Materials: Chart
    Should I use an infinitive or a gerund?
    Verbs Examples Bolingers
    Principle
    Infinitive want I want to play. Unfulfilled,
    need
    hypothetical
    would like

    promise I promise to stay.


    plan

    learn I learn to cook.


    hope

    Gerund enjoy I enjoy singing. Fulfilled, real


    finish

    go (+activity) I go shopping.
    suggest

    practice I practice dancing.


    consider

    dislike

    Either like
    I like to read.
    love
    I like reading.
    hate

    prefer
    I prefer to walk.
    start

    continue I prefer walking.


    Katie Williams

    INTR 612

    Materials: Bingo game

    play
    cook swim read travel
    tennis
    She will start We have to I need to
    I promise I love
    ____________ practice finish
    ___________. ___________.
    ___________. ___________. ___________.

    I want
    She plans He learned She plans We hope
    ____________
    ___________. ___________. ___________. ___________.
    ___________.


    He enjoys He
    He prefers They enjoy
    ____________ suggested
    ___________. ___________.
    ___________. ___________.

    I would like I need to We should


    They dislike She plans
    ____________ finish go
    ___________. ___________.
    ___________. ___________. ___________.

    They practice I never


    I hate I hate I prefer
    ____________ considered
    ___________. ___________. ___________.
    ___________. ___________.

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