Gerunds and infinitives

Put students into groups of four or five. Give them a card and allow few minutes to decide
whether they are going to lie or tell the truth. Students then take it in turns to tell their stories for
the rest of their group to guess if they are telling the truth.

1 2

Talk about something you forgot to do last Talk about something you remember doing
week, which caused some problems. when you were at school when you got into
trouble. (Were you punished for it?)

3 4

Talk about some activity which you tried Talk about a difficult thing you tried to do
doing to see if you liked it. (Did you give it up (but didn’t manage to do it because it was
or do you still do it?) too hard.)

5 6

Talk about a time when you were walking / Talk about a bad habit you stopped doing.
driving and you stopped to do something (How long had you been doing it? Was it
else (to help someone or because you saw difficult stopping?)
something really interesting etc)

7 8

Talk about something you hope to do next Talk about something you really regret
summer. (Give lots of details about your saying to someone. (What did you say? What
plans) happened?)

9 10

Talk about some activity you used to do a Talk about some habit which may seem
few years ago. (Why did you stop?) strange to other people but which you are
used to doing.