Unit 4: Volunteer work
Period 5: Language Focus
A- Pronunciation: /w/ & /j/
1. The sound /w/: Round your lips until they are almost closed. Touch your soft palate with the back of your tongue.
Ex: win, want …
2. The sound /j/: start with the middle of your tongue almost touching just behind the tooth ridge. Make a voice sound while you bring your tongue up and touch the hard palate
Ex: yes, use, union…
Practice
Listen and repeat (P53)
Practise reading aloud these sentences (P53)
B- Grammar
Gerund and present participle
Perfect gerund and perfect participle
B1) Gerund
Form: V-ing


1) Gerund is an object of verb
Admit appreciate enjoy
quit (huy bo) delay deny
Practise resume miss
Postpone resist consider
Report resent can’t help
Mind suggest avoid
Finish recall start/ begin
2) Gerund is used after preposition (Pr)
1. Verbs + Pr:
be better of think off
think about give up
insist on depend on
rely on succeed in
worry about count on (trong cay)
object to look forward to
confess to (thu nhan) be/get used to
be accustomed to be opposed to (phan doi)
be afraid of be capable of
be fond of be interested in
be successful in be supportive of
3. Nouns + Pr:
choice of objection to excuse of
reason of method of/ for intention of
3) Present participle
Perfect gerund & perfect participle
Exercise1
a) I regret .......... to the university.
A. not going, B. not go C. not to go D. not to going
b) This appears .... the right street.
A. be B. to be C. being D. to being
c) Jean managed ....... all her work on time.
A. finish B. finishing C. have finished D. to finish
d) It is no use ....... Jim, his phone was out of order.
A. to call B. to calling C. calling D. call
e) This time yesterday, Ha ....... with me to the school.
A. was cycling B. is cycling C. were cycling D. cycled
f) Looking through the window, I saw Jim ....... across the road.
A. walking B. walk C. to walk D. to walking
g) She often thinks carefully before .... any question.
A. answer B. to answer C. answering D. answered
h) The teacher suggested ....... more film in English to improve their listening skill.
A. watch B. to watch C. watching D. to watching

Answers
A
B (appear to: hoa ra)
D
B
A
A
C
C

Exercise1: Error identification
a) Young college and university students participate helping
A B C
the poor
D
b) Would you mind to help me open the windows, it is hot.
A B C D

c) To turn off the light, I went to bed
A B C D

d) She smelt something to burn, she went ugly to the kitchen.
A B C D

e) Nam has been studied English for 5 years and now he is going
A B C
to take the final exams
D

Answers
B -> participate in
B -> helping
A -> turning
B -> burning
A -> has been studying

Key to exercises in the textbook on P 54,55
1) Exercise 1:
1. listening 2. bending
3. behaving 4. meeting
5. spending 6. waiting
7. parking
2) Exercise 2:
1. burning/ rising 2. reading
3. lying 4. shopping
5. preparing 6. trying
7. modernizing
3) Exercise 3:
1. having made 2. having been 3. having been
4. having tied 5. having read 6. having taken