Grammar and usage Verb-ing form

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Grammar and usage Verb-ing form
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Figure out the meanings of the proverbs and the
usage of the underlined part

• A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
• Seeing is believing.
• A man becomes learned by asking questions.

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I. The verb-ing can be

• 1. Subject of a sentence
• Swimming is good for your health.
• ___________ information is very important to
  businessmen.
• Its no use/good _________ (argue) with him.
• It is great fun _______ (sail) a boat.

Collecting
arguing
sailing
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2. predictive

• Her job is _______ (wash), ________ (clean),
  _______ (take) care of the children.
• ?????????
• My job is teaching English.
• ??She is taking care of the children.

washing
cleaning
taking
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3. Possessive pronouns

• Her swimming has improved since she started
  training everyday.
• 4. compound nouns
• There is a shoe in the swimming pool.

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5. object

• (1) ?????
• He enjoys playing the piano.
• (2) ?????
• He is fond of watching football games.

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Tips

• 1. ?admit, appreciate, avoid, consider, delay,
  dislike, enjoy, excuse, feel like, finish,
  forgive, give up, imagine, include, keep, mind,
  miss, practise, put off, risk, suggest, cant
  stand????,?????????,???????
• My job doesnt include making coffee for the
  boss.

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• 2. ?allow, advise, forbid, permit?????????????,???
  ?????????????,????????????,????????to?????
• We dont allow smoking here.
• We dont allow students to smoke.
• Students are not allowed to smoke.

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• 3.??need, want, require ??????,???????????,?????
  ???,???????????,??????????????(???????????)
• My car need/wants/requires repairing.

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• 4. ??????????????????
• Forget, stop, go on, mean, regret, remember,
  try, cant help??

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• Please remember _______ (hand) in your homework
  tomorrow.
• He remembered ______ (lock) the door. He was not
  worried.
• He forgot _____ (tell) me the news. So I didnt
  know.
• He forgot _______ (tell) me the news. He told me
  again.

to hand
locking
to tell
telling
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• When he saw me, he stopped _________ (say) hello
  to me.
• When he saw his mother, the baby stopped ______
  (cry).

to say
crying
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• It was raining hard, but he went on ________
  (work) in the fields.
• He went on _______ (do) another experiment.

working
to do
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• He tried ___________ (improve) his appearance in
  order to get a part in the film.
• He tried _________ (eat) less to lose weight
  after he failed by running five kilometers a day.

to improve
eating
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• cant help (to) do ???
• cant help doing sth ???
• She cant help _________ (clean) the house
  because shes busy making a cake.
• I cant help ______ (carry) the box for you, as
  Im too tired.
• I cant help _________ (cry).

to clean
carry
crying
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??/?? ?? ??
??? doing being done
??? having done having been done
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getting

• I am thinking of ________ (get) a new dictionary.
  
• He forgot _______________ (promise) to write
  things for us.
• The house showed no sign of _________________
  (damage).

having promised
having been damaged
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• Dont be frightened by sharks as there is 30
  times greater chance of _________ (hit) by
  lightning than being attacked by a shark.

being hit
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III. consolidation

• Turn to page 11 and read the notes.
• When did Mayan first visit Internet chat rooms?
• Can you guess why Mayan likes visiting chat
  rooms? Did he use his real name?

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Complete the email

• visiting/ to visit 2. chatting
• 3. visiting 4. pretending
• 5. chatting/ to chat 6. stop
• 7. chatting 8. to do
• 9. pass

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discussion

• Whats your opinion on visiting chat rooms?

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homework

• C2 on page 100 in Workbook
• Relevant exercises in Assessment book.

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More practice
B

• 1. Seeing his parents _______ the front door, Tom
  had to enter the room through the back door.
• A. paint B. painting
• C. to paint D. painted

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• 2. To answer correctly is more importantly than
  ________.
• A. that you find quickly
• B. finishing quickly
• C. to finish quickly
• D. finish quickly

C
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• 3. The joke told by Lee made us _______ so the
  English teacher couldnt make himself ______.
• A. laugh heard
• B. to laugh hearing
• C. laughing hear
• D. laughed heard

A
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• 4. Im examining the article he has just finished
  _______the possible mistakes in it.
• A. correcting
• B. correct
• C. corrected
• D. to correct

D
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A

• 5. I think ______ is no use crying about your
  exam results now.
• A. it B. there C. this D. that

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D

• 6. I regret ______ hard at school, or I would not
  be working here as a porter.
• A. not to work
• B. having not worked
• C. to have not worked
• D. not having worked

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• 7. They look forward with great hope _______ a
  chance to receive further education in Paris.
• A. for getting B. of getting
• C. to get D. to getting

D
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• 8. I decided to write rather than ______ you
  about my new friends because its always nice
  _______ a letter from someone special.
• A. email receive
• B. email to receive
• C. to email to receive
• D. to email receive

B
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C

• 9. It was ____ computer games that cost the boy a
  lot of time that he ought ot have spent on his
  lessons.
• A. to have played
• B. played
• C. playing
• D. play

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• 10. When we reached the top of the mountain, we
  stopped _______ the beautiful scenery.
• A. to admire B. admire
• C. admiring D. admired

A
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Homework

• C2 on page 92 in Workbook.
• Relevant exercises in Assessment book.