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    1. The document describes an exercise where students write sentences about their classmates using gerund constructions after verbs, such as "Juan resents having to wash his hair". The sentences are collected and redistributed so students can see what others wrote about them. 2. The exercise can be adapted to other grammar patterns besides gerunds, such as writing sentences with two adjectives to describe classmates. 3. The idea for this exercise was adapted from another teacher, Nicky Burbidge, who wrote gerund sentences about her own students. The document advocates for exercises where students write about each other rather than just the teacher writing about students.

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    1. The document describes an exercise where students write sentences about their classmates using gerund constructions after verbs, such as "Juan resents having to wash his hair". The sentences are collected and redistributed so students can see what others wrote about them. 2. The exercise can be adapted to other grammar patterns besides gerunds, such as writing sentences with two adjectives to describe classmates. 3. The idea for this exercise was adapted from another teacher, Nicky Burbidge, who wrote gerund sentences about her own students. The document advocates for exercises where students write about each other rather than just the teacher writing about students.

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    Who Wrote What About Me?: Class

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    1. The document describes an exercise where students write sentences about their classmates using gerund constructions after verbs, such as "Juan resents having to wash his hair". The sentences are collected and redistributed so students can see what others wrote about them. 2. The exercise can be adapted to other grammar patterns besides gerunds, such as writing sentences with two adjectives to describe classmates. 3. The idea for this exercise was adapted from another teacher, Nicky Burbidge, who wrote gerund sentences about her own students. The document advocates for exercises where students write about each other rather than just the teacher writing about students.

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    Who wrote what about me?

    In class
    1 Give out a Gerund sheet to each person in the class. Ask each student t o complete the sentences thinking about different classmates and using a gerund construction after the verb, e.g. - Juan resents having t o wash his hair or Ludwiga enjoys teasing people. Each sentence should mention a different classmate. Tell the students t o put their own names at the top of the sheet. Go round helping and correcting as the students write. 2 Take in all the completed sheets and then hand them out again, making sure nobody gets their own. 3 The students mill round the room in search of all the sentences people have written about them or people they are interested in. They have a chance to say whether other people's projections about them are true or not.

    Variation
    You can easily use this exercise frame for other grammar patterns. Suppose you are teaching a lower intermediate class a lesson on adjective order, you might ask them to write sentences with two adjectives about their classmates, e.g. 'Abder is a 21-year-old, friendly Palestinian.' Oops ... 'a friendly, 21-year-old Palestinian.'
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    Nicky Burbidge, co-author of Letters, did this exercise a different way from above. She wrote gerund sentences about her students who had to mill round the classroom checking out which of her statements were true. Our version is an adaptation of Nicky's exercise. We agree with Sheelagh Deller in her book Lessons from the Learners that lots of things teachers do can be done better by the students themselves.

    FEELINGS AND GRAMMAR

    GERUND SHEET
    Write about your classmates using the verbs below - they are given in the infinitive form - y o u can use any tense. After each verb you need a gerund. You may decide t o write more than one sentence about a particular classmate.
    My name:
    ........................................................

    (to enjoy) (to risk) (to practise) (to appreciate) (can't help) (to resent) (to not mind) (to consider) (can't resist) (to avoid) (canlcan't imagine) (to detest) (to dislike) (to often feel like) (to mind) (to give up) (to put off) (can't face) (to miss) (to finish) (to put off I postpone) (to deny)
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    O Cambridge University Press 1995

    WHO WROTE WHAT ABOUT ME?

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