🙈 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.
Lesson Plan
- 3 warm-up questions about guilty pleasures
Key Vocabulary
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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