1、2021/8/11 星期三1Grammar and usage Verb-ing Form & Verb-ing PhrasesPresented by Yang Jingyan from Taihu Senior Middle School2021/8/11 星期三2Do you know anything about verb-ing form or verb-ing phrases?2021/8/11 星期三3Please fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given verbs 1. They burst into laug

2、hter when they heard the _ (amuse) story.2. Is there any hope of our team _ (win) the match?3. _ (finish) his composition, he went to have a heart- to- heart talk with his father.4._ (send) to the countryside, he had to leave the city.5. The building _ (build) now is our physics lab.6. When _ (leave

3、) the airport, they waved again and again to us.7. _ (not know) how to give first aid to the injured girl, he telephoned the doctor for help. 2021/8/11 星期三4Please fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given verbs8. This same thing, _ (happen) in the peacetime, would be a great disaster.9.

4、The chemical composition of water is H2O, whether _ (be) solid, liquid or vapor.10. We introduced a lot of advanced equipment, thus _ (save) much time and labor.11. We held a party, _ (celebrate) the arrival of the new baby.12. They sat together, _ (study) carefully the design of the new project.13.

5、 Weather _ (permit), we will go for an outing next week.14. We caught the boy _ (pick) flowers in the garden.15. He is a businessman _ (grow) rich in recent years. 2021/8/11 星期三5Verb-ing form can be used as an adjective or adverb. It can serve in a sentence asVerb-ing Formthe attribute.the predicati

6、ve.the objective complement.2021/8/11 星期三6Serve as the attribute There is a waiting taxi around the corner. Lets go and take it.=I like the room facing south.=Attribute is a noun or an adjective that comes before a noun and describes it. There is a taxi which is waiting around the corner. Lets go an

7、d take it.I like the room which is facing south.2021/8/11 星期三7Serve as the predicative The story I heard from him yesterday sounded very frightening. My brothers job is designing new buildings. Predicative is an adjective that comes after a linking verb. 2021/8/11 星期三8Serve as the object complement

8、He kept me waiting for a long time. We heard someone singing in the next room. An object complement is an adjective or a noun that relates to and describes the objects of a sentence. 2021/8/11 星期三9Verb-ing phrase can be a verb-ing on its own. There can also be an object and / or adverbial after the

9、verb-ing. Verb-ing phrases can express the time, the reason, the result, and the condition. Usually we can change verb-ing phrases into adverbial clauses.2021/8/11 星期三10Can you give some examples of verb-ing phrases to express the time, the reason, the result, or the condition?Verb-ing Phrases time

10、reason condition result2021/8/11 星期三11Express the time Hearing the good news, he jumped with joy.=Asking around, I found there were no students taking their mobile phones to that school.=We can use clauses introduced by when and after to rewrite phrases showing the time. After he heard the good news

11、, he jumped with joy.When I asked around, I found there were no students who took their mobile phones to that school.2021/8/11 星期三12Express the reasonHe went to the company with two of his designs, hoping to get a job there.=Having no money in his pocket, he put down the book unwillingly.=We can use

12、 clauses introduced by because to rewrite phrases showing the time.He went to the company with two of his designs, because he hoped to get a job there.Because he had no money in his pocket, he put down the book unwillingly.2021/8/11 星期三13Express the resultThe car ran at an amazing speed, knocking in

13、to the wall.=Her mother died in 1966, leaving her with four younger brothers and sisters.=We can use as a result to rewrite phrases showing the result. The car ran at an amazing speed. As a result, it knocked into the wall.Her mother died in 1966. As a result, she left her with four younger brothers

14、 and sisters.2021/8/11 星期三14Express the conditionTurning to the left, youll find the post office there.=Working hard, you will achieve your goal.=We can use clauses introduced by if to rewrite phrases showing the time.If you turn to the left, youll find the post office there.If you work hard, you wi

15、ll achieve your goal.2021/8/11 星期三15Verb-ing can be used after verbs like stand, sit, and lie to show that the two actions are happening at the same time. My father sat at the table, reading China Daily.=My father sat the table, and read China Daily.2021/8/11 星期三16Attention:1. the perfect form of ve

16、rb-ing2. conjunction + verb-ing to express the time 3. the negative form of verb-ing4. the understood subject of a verb-ing Having finished his homework, the boy watched TV for a short while. =He often keeps a dictionary at hand while learning English. =Not having received an answer, I wrote to him

17、again. =They came into the classroom, talking and laughing.= Time permitting, well go to visit a senior school. =2021/8/11 星期三17Group Activities Discuss anything that you are not so sure of with your group members about verb-ing forms. If necessary, turn to the teacher for help. 2021/8/11 星期三18Some

18、exercises about verb-ing form1. This is an early church, _ from the ninth century, which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo. (date)2. Now he felt tired and wouldnt walk any longer, _ many miles without rest. (walk)3. Do you see that _ (dance) girl? She is my sister.4. The wild flo

19、wers looked like a soft orange blanket _ (cover) the desert.5. My cousin came to see me from the country, _ (bring) me a full basket of fresh fruits.Please fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given verbs 2021/8/11 星期三19Some exercises about verb-ing form6. _ (separate) from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many plants and animals n