Stereotypes + Gerund / Infinitive

A2 (Pre-Intermediate) B1 (Intermediate) Grammar Teens Adults

This lesson focuses on exploring stereotypes and practicing the usage of gerunds and infinitives in English.


The tasks in the lesson include:


  • Discussion Questions: Students answer questions about stereotypes, personal experiences with judgment, and the nature of stereotypes.
  • Agree/Disagree Statements: Students work in pairs to discuss and state their agreement or disagreement with various statements related to stereotypes and gender roles.
  • Grammar Matching: Students match the statements from the previous task with the correct grammatical aspect of infinitives or gerunds.
  • Gerund Rules Review: The lesson provides a detailed explanation of when to use gerunds, including after certain verbs, after phrases, after sensory verbs to express ongoing action, after prepositions, and as subjects/objects.
  • To-Infinitive Rules Review: The lesson outlines when to use to-infinitives.
  • Bare Infinitive Rules Review: The lesson explains the usage of bare infinitives.
  • Sentence Completion with Follow-up Questions: Students complete sentences using the correct form of the verb (gerund or infinitive) and then answer follow-up questions related to the theme of stereotypes and cultural understanding, using their own ideas and experiences.
  • Extra Practice - Sentence Completion: Students complete sentences by choosing the correct gerund or infinitive form based on the context and their creative ideas.
  • Extra Practice - Sentence Creation with Prompts: Students create sentences using provided prompts, incorporating their own ideas.
  • Photo Description: Students describe photos using infinitives and gerunds, with suggested words or their own ideas.
  • Personalized Sentence Creation: Students choose 10 words/phrases to make true sentences about their own lives, using gerunds, to-infinitives, or bare infinitives.
  • Error Correction and Sentence Rewriting: Students identify and correct incorrect words or phrases in sentences and rewrite sentences using a given word in the correct gerund, to-infinitive, or bare infinitive form.
  • Quote/Sentence Starter Completion: Students complete various quote or sentence starters related to stereotypes, using a gerund, to-infinitive, or bare infinitive.

July 25, 2025