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In classGive ou t a erund sheet to each person in the class. Ask each stud ent tocomplete the sentences thinking ab ou t differen t classmates and using agerund construction after the verb, e.g. Ju an resents having t o was h hishair o r Ludwiga enjoys teasing people.Each sentence should m ention a different classmate. Tell the students t oput their ow n names at the top of the sheet. G o round helping andcorrecting as the students write.2 Take in all the completed sheets and then han d them o u t again, makingsure nobo dy gets their own.Th e students mill round the roo m in search of all the sentences peoplehave written a bo ut them o r people they are interested in. Th ey have achance to say whether othe r people s projections a bo ut them are true o rnot .

VariationYou can easily use this exercise frame fo r other gram ma r patterns. Supposeyou are teaching a lower interm ediate class a lesson on adjective order, youmight ask them to write sentences with tw o adjectives ab ou t theirclassmates, e.g. Abder is a 21-yea r-old, friendly Palestinian. O op s afriendly, 21-year-old Palestinian.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTNicky B urbidge, co-au thor of Letters, did this exercise a different way fromabove. She wro te gerund sentences a bo ut her studen ts who had to millround the classroom checking ou t which o f her stateme nts were true.O u r version is an ad ap tatio n of Nicky s exercise. We agree with SheelaghDeller in her book Lessons from the Learners that lots of things teachers docan be don e better by the stude nts themselves.

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GERUND SHEETWrite ab ou t yo ur classmates using the verbs be lo w hey are give n inthe inf in i t ive fo rm - y o u can use an y tense. Af te r each verb you n e e d agerund. You m ay decide t o w r i te m ore than one sentence a bo ut aparticular classmate.My name:(to enjoy)(t o risk)(to practise)(to appreciate)(can t help)(t o resent)( to no t mind)(to consider)(can t resist)( t o avoid)(canlcan t ima gine)(to detest)(t o dislike)( to o f ten fee l l ike)( to mind)(to give up)( t o p u t o f f )(can t face)(t o miss)(to f inish)( to pu t o f f os tpone)(t o deny)O Cambridge University Press 995

WH O WROTE WHAT ABOUT ME