1. UNIT 18 – BEEN THERE?DONE THAT
By Maria Zaheer

3. Vocabulary Refresher
Skiing in the Alps
Riding a Camel
Ice skating
Hot air ballooning
Mountain climbing
Ice climbing

4. What are
What did you you doing
do yesterday ? now ?
Present participle
Past -ed -ing

5. What is a Verb?
Verbs
are
words
of
Action ! My mum is cooking.
Cook +ing = cooking

6. Gerunds
Riding , singing and
swimming
Formed from Verbs
ending in -ing
They function as nouns.

7. Gerund as the subject
Swimming is
Mohammad's
favourite sport.
What is
Mohammad’s
favourite sport ?

8. Gerund as the direct object
John likes
riding his bike.
John likes what?

9. Gerund as the subject complement
Amal’s hobby
is reading.
What is Amal’s
hobby?

10. Gerund as the object of preposition
They are good
at skating.
What are they good at?
Before the prepositions
(of , on, at , after , before
etc..)

11. Comparing Gerund and
Present participles
Their
functions

12. Comparing Gerund and Present participles
I remember
promising him a
gift.
.
He is a promising student

13. Lets check what we have learnt
so far!
Are we talking
about gerunds ?
Writing Activity
Change the base
form of verbs into
gerunds and
name their place
in the sentences.

14. Been there, done that
Lets play !
. Students are going to work in pairs.
. Each pair must use two verbs to make one sentence.
. If the sentence is correct, the pair scores a point.
. I will remove the two verbs from the board and the game
continues.
. When all the verbs are gone, the game is over and the
highest score wins.