Gerunds and Infinitives ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Find Someone Who...

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Controlled and Freer Practice

In this free gerunds and infinitives speaking activity, students ask and answer questions with gerunds and infinitives. First, students go through the items on... read more

Gerunds and Infinitives Practice

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Sentence Completion

This useful gerunds and infinitives worksheet helps students to learn and practice commonly used gerund and infinitive forms. Students begin with... read more

Gerunds Crossword

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL Gerunds Activity - Grammar: Crossword, Sentence Completion - Pair Work

In this gerunds as a subject activity, students make sentences with gerunds as the subject and then use the gerunds to complete a crossword. Student A begins by choosing a verb from the box... read more

Guess who it is

Pre-intermediate (A2) 40 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Game - Grammar, Writing and Listening: Gap-fill, Binary Choice, Writing Sentences, Guessing

In this fun gerunds and infinitives activity, students write sentences about themselves with gerunds and infinitives and then play a guessing game using... read more

This is me

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Discussion - Group Work

In this gerunds and infinitives speaking activity, students complete sentences about themselves using gerunds and infinitives and then discuss them... read more

Verb Quest: Gerund or Infinitive?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Completing Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work

This enjoyable gerunds and infinitives board game helps students practice when to use a gerund instead of an infinitive and vice versa. In groups, players... read more

What do you like doing?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL Gerunds Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Controlled Practice

In this insightful gerunds speaking activity, students talk about what they like doing at certain times. To start, students read through the worksheet and... read more

Bad at Badminton

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

In this comprehensive verb patterns worksheet, students practice using verbs with gerunds and infinitives... read more

Can you tell me about…?

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work

Here is a gerunds and infinitives speaking activity to help students practice forming, asking and answering questions... read more

Create a Sentence

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work

Here is an engaging gerunds and infinitives game in which students create sentences with words and phrases that are followed by a gerund or infinitive... read more

Discussion Time

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Speaking: Answering Questions, Discussion, Communicative Practice - Group Work

In this free gerunds and infinitives speaking activity, students answer questions and discuss various topics using gerunds and infinitives with to... read more

Fact or Fiction Frenzy

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, True or False, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group Work

In this gerunds and infinitives true or false board game, students practice making statements and questions... read more

Gerund and Infinitive Dominoes

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Game - Grammar: Matching, Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this gerunds and infinitives game, students match verbs with gerunds and infinitives and make sentences with them. The first player puts a domino... read more

Gerund and Infinitive Master

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet - Grammar Exercise: Gap-fill, Changing Word Forms

Here is a compelling gerunds and infinitives worksheet to test students' knowledge of gerunds and infinitives with to. First, students complete each... read more

Gerund or Infinitive?

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerund or Infinitive Worksheet - Vocabulary and Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity - Discussion - Pair Work

This productive verb patterns worksheet helps students practice or review gerunds and infinitives. First, students... read more

Mr Gerund vs. Mr Infinitive

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice

In this imaginative gerunds and infinitives board game, students take on the roles of Mr Gerund or Mr Infinitive and find their way home by correctly... read more

My Sentence About You

Intermediate (B1) 40 minutes
ESL Gerunds Activity - Speaking: Writing Sentences from Prompts, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice

In this interesting gerunds activity, students try to write true sentences about their classmates and then check if their sentences are true or not by... read more

Same here!

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Agreeing, Freer Practice

In this enjoyable gerunds and infinitives speaking activity, students complete sentences about themselves with true information and then find... read more

Tell me about...

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work

Here is a free gerunds and infinitives speaking activity for students to do in class. In pairs, students take turns asking their partner to tell them about the things... read more

Thinking of You

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Reading Sentences - Pair Work

In this memorable gerunds and infinitives game, students try to guess true information about a partner using gerunds and infinitives. First, students think... read more

It's worth racing to win!

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds Board Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this creative gerunds board game, students complete sentences with a gerund or gerund phrase. The sentences focus on the expressions (not) worth... read more

I was thinking of...

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Gerunds Game - Grammar: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this Connect 4 style gerunds grammar game, students practice talking about past plans and intentions using thinking of and gerund phrases. In pairs... read more

True or False?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Gerunds and Infinitives Game - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Writing Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group Work

In this free gerunds and infinitives game, students write true and false statements about themselves and then play... read more