Gerund (-ing) or INFINITIVE?

Intermediate 1 (unit 5C)

Gerund Infinitive

PRACTICE (Click on each number to do three different activities)
1. ONE
2. TWO
3. THREE

**When you have finished PLEASE write a COMMENT**
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AS or LIKE?

Advanced 1


•as

She works as a tourist guide. (She is one.)
You look as your brother did when he was your age.
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•like

She knows the place like a tourist guide (but she's not one.)
Bob works like a dog (but he is NOT one!)
You look like your brother.

We use as
a) to talk about the role of somebody/something
Example:
..... He works as a computer programmer. (He is one.)
..... He used the scarf as a bandage.

b )to mean 'in the same way'. It's followed by a subject and a verb. Examples:
You think as your father did.
Our store will open on 25 December, as we usually do.

c) to compare two people or things:
You are as smart as your sister.

ALSO:

d)To give a reason (because)
As he was tired he left earlier.

e) Meaning 'while':
As I was leaving he arrived.


We use like
- to talk about similarity
Example: He uses the computer like a computer programmer (but he's not one).

- to mean 'in the same way'. It's followed by an object, or by a subject and a verb. Examples:
You think like your father.
Our store will open on 25 December, like we usually do.

Click here to learn more and do a bit of practice!

**When you have finished PLEASE write a COMMENT**
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The Media (Video)

Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He has also written well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal’s lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.

by Jay Parini

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THE article

When do we use THE and when do we omit it ?

Visit this LINK and do the exercise!

Once upon a time a boy met a girl in the centre of the city.
They had an ice cream together, and then they went to the cinema to see a fill. The film was called Eleven Years.

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Funny and ecological Video you cannot miss!!!

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The Logical Song

What words are missing? FILL IN the gaps:

WHEN I WAS __1___
IT SEEMED THAT LIFE WAS SO__2__
A MIRACLE, OH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, MAGICAL
AND ALL THE ___3___IN THE TREES
WELL THEY´D BE SINGING SO HAPPILY
OH JOYFULLY, OH PLAYFULLY ___4___ME

BUT THEN THEY SENT ME AWAY
TO TEACH ME HOW TO BE ___5___
LOGICAL, OH RESPONSIBLE , PRACTICAL
AND THEY SHOWED ME A __6__
WHERE I COULD BE SO DEPENDABLE
OH CLINICAL, OH___7___, CYNICAL

THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ALL THE WORLD´S ASLEEP
THE ___8__RUN TOO DEEP
FOR SUCH A SIMPLE MAN
WON´T YOU PLEASE, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WE´VE__9__
I KNOW IT SOUNDS ___10__
BUT PLEASE TELL ME WHO I AM...

NOW WATCH WHAT YOU SAY
OR THEY´LL BE CALLING YOU A RADICAL
A LIBERAL, OH FANATICAL, ___11___
OH WON´T YOU SIGN UP YOUR NAME
WE´D LIKE TO FEEL YOU´RE
ACCEPTABLE, RESPECTABLE, OH PRESENTABLE, A___12__!

AT NIGHT WHEN ALL THE WORLD´S ASLEEP
THE __8___RUN TOO DEEP
FOR SUCH A SIMPLE MAN
WON´T YOU PLEASE, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WEVE __9__

I KNOW IT SOUNDS __10___
BUT PLEASE TELL ME WHO I AM, WHO I AM ,WHO I AM.

See ANSWERS in COMMENTS below...

NICE EASTER HOLIDAY TO ALL MY DEAR STUDENTS!!!

Dul ce

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SAINT PATRICK

Next March 17th is Saint Patrick's Day...
Who is that?!!!

Find out HERE and do some interesting activities to improve your English and your knowledge of the English culture!

NI1 Listening TESTS

(1)
For NI1 students who need some extra practice on listening, especially the type Filling in gaps...

.... Click ENTRY to listen to Rosemary talking about her childhood...

( I hope now you have no problems to get there!!!!!)

- Click here to print test.

- Click to see KEY.



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(2)
Another LISTENING Test practice on
fill in the gaps.
Click to print or see activity.
Click to listen to the story...

Check answers in class!

NA1 Listening Test

Extra listening test practice for NA1 students who need to improve the matching type.
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-Click on each speaker to listen to them one by one ...

Speaker 1

Speaker 2

Speaker 3

Speaker 4

Speaker 5

CHECK ANSWERS IN CLASS!
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