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Gerund or Infinitive Card Game
Set A

try remember advise begin

like can't stand refuse avoid

eager encourage opportunity keep

enjoy need have trouble keen on

unable practice stop dislike

regret suggest can’t help understand

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Gerund or Infinitive Card Game
Set B

get write build walk

take learn read change

live play ignore make

clean tidy up buy turn down

watch feel wear work

spend go predict study

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Gerund or Infinitive Card Game
Here is an enjoyable speaking activity to help students practice gerunds and infinitives. In
this card game, students create sentences using words and phrases that need to be
followed by a gerund or infinitive.

Before class, copy both sets of cards for each group of three students.

Procedure

Divide the class into groups of three and give each group a set of cards A and B.

Tell the students that the words and phrases on the cards in set A are followed by either a
gerund or infinitive (with or without to).

Explain that students need to combine one card from set A and one card from set B to make
a logical sentence. The sentence can be in any tense and can be positive or negative, but it
must contain a gerund or infinitive.

Tell the groups to shuffle the set A cards and deal out three cards to each player. The left
over cards should be placed face down in a pile on the table and the top card should be
turned over and placed next to the pile. Students do the same with the set B cards. So on
the table there should be two piles of cards and two cards turned over.

Players should always have six cards (three from each set) in their hand.

The players take it in turns to make sentences by combining a set A card and a set B card
from the cards in their hand. Each time they make a sentence, the students must place the
cards on the table in front of them. After making a sentence they replace the two cards by
taking one from each of the face-down piles.

When a student creates a sentence, the other players may accept or challenge the
sentence.

If a player cannot make a sentence, they use their turn to change one of their cards, taking
either the face-up card or the next face-down card from the corresponding pile. The card
they put down goes on the face-up pile.

The student with the most pairs is the winner.

As students play, monitor their use of the gerund and infinitives. If necessary, ask students
to repeat the pairs in front of them, returning the cards to the pile if they are not correct.

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