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Discuss in groups:

Do you want to become a celebrity?

What would you like to do if you became famous?

2 minutes
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Let’s remember one
grammar rule
 Correct the mistakes
if needed: 2+2 minutes
1. I suggest to go somewhere fun.
2. Are you good at choosing nice clothes?
3. Be famous is the last thing you would
enjoy.
4. A reporter asks you to be on the photo.
5. You make an effort to remembering
names.
6. You’re likely to bump into friends.

Adapted from Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor, Jonathan Bygrave, Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate Third Edition, Unit 12, page 118 ex 2b
 Answers:

1. I suggest going somewhere fun.

2. Are you good at choosing great clothes?
3. Being famous is the last thing you would enjoy.
4. A reporter asks you to be on the photo.

5. You make an effort to remember names.

6. You’re likely to bump into friends.
Now let’s remember
the rule
Match the points and the sentences:
Gerund:
Example sentences:
1. The best chance to win the game came in the second
1. As a subject or object of the sentence
2. After the preposition
half .
3. After certain verbs 2. She’s come here to become a star.
4. Some noun phrases 3. Would you like something to eat?
5. Pattern with it 4. Cooking is hard.
5. She’s good at organizing parties.
6. It’s worth seeing the garden in the summer.
Infinitives with to: 7. We’re having troubles recruiting people.
6. After certain verbs 8. I dislike cooking.
7. Too + adjective + infinitive 9. He has agreed to come here.
8. Not + adjective + enough + infinitive 10.It’s easy for people to get information over the
9. Adjective + for + person + infinitive
10. chance/decision/effort/opportunity/time + infinitive
internet.
11. After no one, nothing, nowhere, something, what, where, etc. 11.She’s not old enough to be here.
12. To express purpose (why?) 12.He’s too experienced to make such a mistake.

4+3 minutes Adapted from Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor, Jonathan Bygrave, Cutting Edge
Upper Intermediate Third Edition, Unit 12, page 164 Study 1
Answers:
Gerund:
Example sentences:
1. The best chance to win the game came in the second
1. As a subject or object of the sentence
2. After the preposition
half .
3. After certain verbs 2. She’s come here to become a star.
4. Some noun phrases 3. Would you like something to eat?
5. Pattern with it 4. Cooking is hard.
5. She’s good at organizing parties.
6. It’s worth seeing the garden in the summer.
Infinitives with to: 7. We’re having troubles recruiting people.
6. After certain verbs 8. I dislike cooking.
7. Too + adjective + infinitive 9. He has agreed to come here.
8. Not + adjective + enough + infinitive 10.It’s easy for people to get information over the
9. Adjective + for + person + infinitive
10. chance/decision/effort/opportunity/time
internet.
+ infinitive 11.She’s not old enough to be here.
11. After no one, nothing, nowhere, something, what, where, etc. 12.He’s too experienced to make such a mistake.
12. To express purpose (why?)
 Form
● Gerund: verb + ing
Pay attention:
- verb ending with –e: dance – dancing, have - having;
- one vowel + one consonant = double consonant: shop – shopping, put- putting.

● Infinitive: to + verb
Pay attention:
- No ending to the verb.
 Pronunciation tips!
● Having
● Seeing NO [G] sound at the Repeat after me
● Recruiting end!
Now let’s work with
Gerund and
Infinitive
Write the correct form of the verbs:
to
1. “A celebrity is ato person who works all his life (become) well-known,
ing
then wears dark glasses
(prevent) people from (recognize) him.” [Fred Alien, comedian]
2. “(Be) a star was never as much fun as (dream) about (be) a star.” [Marylin Monroe, film star]
3. “if you don’t want (be) forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things that are worth (read),
or do things that are worth (write) about.” [Benjamin Franklin, American statesman]
4. “A writer’s fame is the best kind (have): it is enough (get) you a good table in a restaurant, but not
enough (mean) that you are interrupted while you are eating.” [Fran Lebowitz, writer]
5. “I don’t’ want (achieve) immortality through my work. I want (achieve) it through not (die).”
[Woody Allen, film director]
6. There is only one thing worse than (be) talked about, and that is not (be) talked about.” [Oscar
Wilde, playwright]

3 + 2 minutes Adapted from Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor, Jonathan Bygrave, Cutting Edge
Upper Intermediate Third Edition, Unit 12, page 119, ex 1a
 Answers:
1. “A celebrity is a person who works all his life (become) well-known, then wears dark glasses
(prevent) people from (recognize) him.” [Fred Alien, comedian]
“A celebrity is a person who works all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to prevent
people from recognizing him.” [Fred Alien, comedian]

2. “(Be) a star was never as much fun as (dream) about (be) a star.” [Marylin Monroe, film star]

“Being a star was never as much fun as dreaming about being a star.” [Marylin Monroe, film star]

3. “If you don’t want (be) forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things that are worth (read), or do
things that are worth (write) about.” [Benjamin Franklin, American statesman]

“If you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things that are worth reading, or do
things that are worth writing about.” [Benjamin Franklin, American statesman]
4. “A writer’s fame is the best kind (have): it is enough (get) you a good table in a restaurant, but not enough
(mean) that you are interrupted while you are eating.” [Fran Lebowitz, writer]

“A writer’s fame is the best kind to have: it is enough to get you a good table in a restaurant, but not enough to
mean that you are interrupted while you are eating.” [Fran Lebowitz, writer]

5. “I don’t’ want (achieve) immortality through my work. I want (achieve) it through not (die).” [Woody Allen,
film director]

“I don’t’ want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” [Woody
Allen, film director]

6. There is only one thing worse than (be) talked about, and that is not (be) talked about.” [Oscar Wilde,
playwright]
There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” [Oscar Wilde,
playwright]
Now it’s time to
speak
Discuss in groups:

1. How would you feel about going to a big 3. At parties, are you happy to chat to
social gathering on your own? people you don’t know?
2. On average, how much time do you spend 4. Do you mainly choose clothes to get
getting ready before you go out? noticed or to fit in with other people?

Adapted from Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor, Jonathan Bygrave, Cutting Edge
Upper Intermediate Third Edition, Unit 12, page 119 ex 2a
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Good vocabulary: Errors:

1. 1.
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3. 3.