PARTICIPANTS:

- Kimberly Alan Cuentas

- Aymee Celina Castro Vega
- Jasmin Naysha Suclupe Sinche

1. Complete the conversations using to + infinitive or the -ing form of the verbs.

1. A: What are you doing?

B: I’m trying to fixing my bike.
A: Would you like me to helping you?
B: Yes, please. Do you know how to making
the brakes work?
2. A: Do you enjoy to speaking in public?
B: I don’t mind to giving presentations if I have time to prepare.
A: I hate to standing up in front of
large groups of people.
B: When do you have to do that?
A: I agreed to giving a talk at a
conference next month.
3. A: Are you planning to doing anything special for your 30th birthday?
B: Yes. My friend Juan and I have decided
to having a big party.
A: Where?
B: We considered to renting the
DanceMania nightclub, but it was too expensive.
A: How many people do you expect to coming?
B: About 200. We’ll continue to looking for a venue, but it’s not easy.
4. A: What do you think of these companies that avoid to paying their taxes?
B: I think it’s terrible. Someone needs to doing something about it.
A: I agree. It seems to doing the big
companies that are the problem.
B: Why should small companies pay and not big ones?
No one likes to paying taxes.

2. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. buy / to / some / need / I / stamps

I need to buy some stamps.
2. you / him / me / call / can / tell / to ?
Can you tell him to call me?
3. want / you / go / me / to / do / the bank / to ?
Do you want to me go to the bank ?
4. not / I / hope / be / late / to
I hope not to be late.
5. agreed / her / pay / £12 per hour / I / to
I agreed to pay her £12 per hour.
6. not / hate / I / the answer / knowing
I hate not knowing the answer.
7. me / encouraged / the job / apply / she / for / to
She encouraged to apply the job for me.
8. her / asked / two tickets / to / I / book
I asked two tickets book to her .

3.Rewrite the sentences so they have the same meaning.

1. It can be stressful to change jobs

Changing jobs is stressful.
2. Knowing the right person to contact is essential.
It is essential contact to know the right.
3. Helping people with their problems is very rewarding.
It is rewarding to help people with their problems
4. It was strange to see him again after so many years.
Seeing him again after so many years was strange.
5. Walking downhill is easier than walking uphill.
It is easier walking uphill to walk downhill.
6. It was embarrassing not to have the right information.
Having the right information isn't embarrassing
7. Planning a big event takes a long time.
It is taking to planning a big event
8 It was great to spend time with my family.
Spending time with my family was great .

4. Write 2 sentences for each set of prompts.

1. Is already done in the book.

2. It’s not easy to write poetry.

Writing poetry is not easy.

3. It’s tiring to work twenty hours per day.

Working twenty hours per day is tiring.
4. It's a bad idea to go for a run without a bottle of water.
Without a bottle of water it's a bad idea to go for a run.

5. It’s sensible to book tickets in advance

In advanced it's sensible to book tickets

6. It's not polite to phone people after 9 p.m.

After 9 p.m it's not polite to phone people.

5. Correct the mistake in each sentences

Already correct:

1- I enjoy listening to classical music

2- I don't mind waiting
3- Can you help us find a new apartment?
4- He told me to do my work again
5- I persuaded him not to leave
6- Working late at night is a bad idea