Giáo án điện tử tiếng anh lớp 11 Unit 4 language focus

Gerund and Present Participle 2.. Perfect Gerund and Perfect Participle... GRAMMARExercise 1: Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate gerund of the verbs from the bo

PART E: LANGUAGE FOCUS

I PRONUNCIATION

II GRAMMAR

/w/ and /j/

1 Gerund and Present Participle

2 Perfect Gerund and Perfect Participle

I PRONUNCIATION /w/ /j/

w e w heel

w est w et

w ine w hale

y es y ears

y ellow u se

y oung Y ork

Practice reading aloud these sentences

II GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate gerund of the verbs from the box.

spend behave wait park

start bend meet listen

Example:

He found that parking was difficult in that city

1 Gerund and Present Participle

1- I have no objection to _ to your story

again

2- Touch your toes without _ your knees!

3- You should be ashamed of yourself for _

so badly

4- I am looking forward to _ you

5- You can’t prevent him from his own money

6- Would you mind for a moment?

7- In spite of _ late, we arrived in time

listening

bending

behaving

meeting

spending

waiting starting

spend behave wait park

start bend meet listen

Gerund can be used in the following ways.

1 As subject of sentence (in example)

2 As complement of a verb

3 After prepositions (in number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

and 7)

4 After certain verbs ( in number 6)

5 In noun compounds

Exercise 2: Complete of the following sentence with an appropriate present participle of the verb from the box.

lie modernize shop pass prepare

rise try read burn

Example:

I saw him my house

 I saw him passing my house

1 She smelt something and saw

smoke _

2 If she catches you her diary, she’ll be furious

3 The found a tree across the road

4 I’m going this afternoon

5 He doesn’t spend much time

his lessons

6 They wasted the whole afternoon _ to repair the bike

7 They spend a lot of money

the house

burning rising

reading

lying shopping

preparing

trying modernizing

lie modernize shop pass prepare

rise try read burn

Some of the uses of present participle

1 After verbs of sensation (see, hear, feel,

smell, listen to, notice, watch)

2 After catch/ find/ leave + O

3 After go/ come/ spend/ waste/ be busy

4 To replace a clause

E.g He entered the room and saw a

stranger

 Entering the room, he saw a stranger

The difference between gerund and present participle:

• Gerund: (V-ing) used as a noun equivalent

• Present Participle: (V-ing) more like a verb or

an adjective

2 Perfect Gerund and Perfect Participle

• used instead of a gerund/ participle when we want to emphasize the completion of the action (having + p.p.)

We are happy about your

completing all your

assignments.

We are happy about your

having completed all your assignments.

Participle Perfect Participle

Finishing the work, they

went home. Having finishedthey went home. the work,

Exercise 3: Put the verb in brackets into the

perfect gerund or perfect participle

Example:

He was accused of _ (desert) his ship two months ago

He was accused of having deserted his ship two months ago

1 I object to him _ (make) private calls on the

office phone

2 (be) his own boss for such a long time, he found

it hard to accept orders from another.

3 They denied _ (be) there.

4 (tie) one end of the rope to his bed, he threw

the other end out of the window.

5 _ (read) the instruction, he snatched up the fire

extinguisher.

6 The children admitted _ (take) the money.

having made

Having been

having been

Having tied

Having read

having taken

 PERFECT GERUND

 PERFECT GERUND

 PERFECT GERUND

- Do the exercises in the textbook again

- Write 5 sentences using gerund and 5 sentences using participle