奉贤区奉城高级中学高一 ( 5 ) 班 陈 仲 March 5th 2008

In Western cultures, maintaining eye contact in conversations is necessary. In many Asian cultures, avoiding eye contact shows respect. eye contact A noun that is formed by adding –ing to a verb is called a Gerund( 动名词 ). maintain-ingmaintaining avoidavoiding-ing Gerund( 动名词 )

What do you know about Gerund ?

What is your hobby?

Fishing is my hobby. Gerund as subject ( 主语 ) My hobby is fishing. Gerund as predicative ( 表语 ) What is your hobby?

A guess-game: What is it called? a room for reading a reading room a bag for sleeping water for drinking a machine for washing a pool for swimming a car for sleeping a sleeping car a sleeping bag drinking water a washing machine a swimming pool Gerund as attribute( 定语 )

What do you know about Gerund? Subject 主语 Predicative 表语 Attribute 定语 Fishing is my hobby. My hobby is fishing. My baby is on a sleeping car.

This monster of a man loved singing. He was afraid of letting her see his face. Gerund as object ( 宾语 )after a verb( 动词 ) or a preposition( 介词 ) 8. We are looking forward to having another chance. 1. I couldn’t risk missing that train. 2. We’d avoid making the same mistake. 3. There’s no way to escape doing the work. 4. Most of them object to leaving in such a hurry. 5. I’m considering accepting your offer. 6. A lot of students enjoy collecting stamps. 7. He practiced playing the piano every day.

Do you enjoy learning here?

School rules

Every morning, we have to come to school without ______. Choose one: late; lating; be late; being late;

To _______ being punished, some of them even _____climbing the wall/bars. Choose and fill in: enjoy; risk; finish; escape; escape risk

Filling blanks: We must spend time _______(read), and practise ______(read) as much as possible; besides, we must finish____ (do) homework on our own; reading doing asking copying learning we prefer ______ (ask) teachers to ________ (copy) from others, for that’s the right way of _______(learn).

Most of us dream of _____ ( 拥有 ) an up-to-date mobile phone, but we should avoid _____ ( 使用 ) it in the classroom, for it will affect others. having using

About rules: Without unwritten rules, civilized life would be impossible. 没有不成文的规章，就不会有文明的生活. So Please enjoy your learning here with so many rules!

appreciate; avoid; consider; deny; delay; enjoy; escape; finish; imagine; mind; miss; practice; prevent; risk; suggest… … Word list 1: Only gerund is used as an object with: be used to; devote oneself to; look forward to; pay attention to; lead to; prefer…to…; object to; … … feel like; give up; put off; can’t help… …

Word list 2: Only gerund is used in the following: be worth doing spend…doing… there is no point in doing… have some/ a lot of/ no difficulty in doing… it’s no good/ no use/ useless doing… it’s a waste of time doing…

1. There is no point in ___________ (get) angry. 2. It’s a waste of time ___________ (try) to explain it to him. 3. Do you feel like ___________ (have) a walk with me after supper? 4. It’s no use ____________ (cry) over spilt milk. 5. It’s no good ____________ (smoke). More Practice:

What do you know about Gerund? We have got to know the following in this class: A gerund is a _____ that is formed by adding ___ to a ____. For example: _____________, ________(cook, travel, fish…). In a sentence a gerund can be used as a _______, a ___________, an ________ and an _______ after a verb or a preposition. In addition, we’ve also learnt some useful structures. For example: … … noun -ingverb fishing… cooking, fishing subject predicativeattribute object

So In which situation can we use gerund? If we want to introduce a person, May we use gerund to describe him? To describe his job, his hobby and some other aspects? Let’s have a try, ok?

Zhou Xinchi is one of my favorite film stars. Acting is his job of course. He spent years studying acting at school and practiced performing a lot. During making a movie, he devoted himself to being the one in the movie. He doesn’t mind filming again and again and tries making every of his scene best. Sometimes he even risked doing some dangerous stunts( 特技 ) by himself.

I enjoy seeing his comic movies. Many of his movies are worth seeing a hundred times; for each time I see them, they always give me endless pleasure and relaxation. I can’t help laughing while watching. We have to admire his gifted talent. I’m looking forward to seeing his next movie.

Introduce someone you love or like; Try to use gerunds! May be used: enjoy mind practice feel like can’t help … devote oneself to be used to look forward to prefer… to… lead to pay attention to object to be worth doing

Homework: 1. Please write down your introduction on your exercise-book. 2. Look up the following words in your dictionary: regret; need; mean; try; stop; prefer

Thank you May you a happy day Goodbye!