3.30: Gerunds and Infinitives - Speaking Practice

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Work in your teams. Discuss each of the following questions. Pay attention to the correct usage of infinitives or gerunds. Use the questions as a guide to create well-structured sentences that contain either a gerund or an infinitive. Explain your answers by providing details.

1. What do you enjoy doing on the weekends?

2. What is your biggest fear? What are you most afraid of doing?

3. Imagine it is 10 years from now. Where do you hope to be living? What do you hope to be doing? How do you plan on achieving this goal?

4. What is the most important decision you have ever made? What did you decide to do? Was it a good decision? Why?

5. Are you ready to take the test on ‘gerunds & infinitives’? What do you need to do to prepare?

6. Are you planning on traveling over the winter break?

7. What do you look forward to doing more than anything else? Why is this so important/special to you?