🏊 Swimming Is Fun! — Play, Do, Go & Gerunds
Sports time! Today you will learn when to say play, do or go (play soccer, do karate, go hiking), use a gerund as the subject ("Swimming is good exercise."), talk about fun activities in Tunisia and say how many people do them: most, a lot of, some, few.
The School Sports Club
Read the little scene below.
🤔 Which sport do you play — or do — or go?
⚽ Play, Do Or Go?
Use the verbs play, do and go to talk about sports and activities. For do, there is no clear rule: you just have to learn them!
⚽ play
ball games & games
- soccer
- tennis · table tennis
- basketball · volleyball
- chess · golf · ice hockey
🥋 do
learn them by heart!
- karate · kung fu
- yoga
- gymnastics
🏃 go
activities ending in -ing
- swimming · running
- hiking · cycling
- surfing · skiing
🧺 Play, Do Or Go? — The Sorting Game
Put each activity in the right basket. 10 rounds!
🏭 Gerunds As Subjects
A gerund is a noun made from the -ing form of a verb. It can be the subject of a sentence, like any other noun.
🧩 Gerund = subject
- "Swimming is her favorite activity."
- "Cooking for my family is a lot of fun."
- "Playing soccer is good exercise."
- "I love doing karate."
✏️ Spelling rules
- vowel + consonant → double: swim → swimming, run → running
- ends in -e → remove it: live → living, ride → riding
- exception: ski → skiing (two i!)
- most verbs → just +ing: play → playing (you saw it in Lesson 31!)
🏭 The Gerund Factory
Put a verb in the machine: watch the spelling rule, then get a sentence with the gerund as the subject!
🇹🇳 Fun Activities In Your Country
Click a card to hear it. Then read about weekends in Tunisia!
📊 Quantifiers — How Many People?
📖 Weekends In Tunisia
In Tunisia, a lot of people love the weekend. Most families have lunch together on Sunday — couscous is a favorite! In the summer, many people go to the beach, so swimming is very popular. A lot of young people play soccer: it's the favorite sport in the country.
Some people go hiking in the green mountains of Aïn Draham, and some families go for a drive to visit their relatives or have a picnic. Few people go skiing — there isn't much snow! And not many people stay at home all weekend. Spending time with family is the best part of the weekend.
🙋 The Class Survey
20 students answered a survey. Look at the result and choose the right quantifier! 8 rounds.
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: Weekends In My Country
A pen pal from Canada asks: "What do people do on the weekend in Tunisia?" Write your answer with play / do / go, a gerund as the subject and quantifiers (most, many, some, few).
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Read your text out loud like a little video message for your pen pal. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — Sports & Gerunds
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!