📖 Lesson B1 Grammar🎉 Fun & Culture

🙈 Guilty Pleasures

Students read an 800+ word article about guilty pleasures, featuring a survey of 5,000 teenagers and psychologist Dr. Hana Kimura's insights on social pressure and self-acceptance. Three teenagers from Brazil, Morocco and Japan share their guilty pleasures anonymously. Grammar covers gerunds (-ing) after verbs like enjoy, avoid, keep, can't help, miss, mind, admit, finish, and infinitives (to + verb) after want, decide, hope, agree, refuse, pretend, learn, promise. Special attention is given to verbs that change meaning with gerund vs infinitive (stop, remember, try, forget). The interactive game presents 10 sentences where students choose gerund or infinitive. The writing task asks students to describe their own guilty pleasures using at least 5 gerund/infinitive constructions.

🎒 Teens (11–16) schedule 40 min signal_cellular_alt Medium visibility 152
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  • 3 warm-up questions about guilty pleasures

translate Key Vocabulary

guilty pleasureembarrassedadmitconfesspretendfit injudgementashamedrefreshingtasteuniqueweaknesssocial pressureanonymouslycelebratemake fun of

auto_fix_high Grammar Points

  • Verb + gerund: enjoy reading, avoid talking, keep watching, can't help laughing
  • Verb + infinitive: want to go, decide to leave, hope to travel, agree to help
  • Verb + both (meaning changes): stop smoking (quit) vs stop to smoke (pause)
  • Verb + both (meaning changes): remember locking (recall) vs remember to lock (don't forget)
  • Verb + both (same meaning): love reading = love to read
  • Common error: enjoy to read X -> enjoy reading

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