Task 2. New usage of the -ing form

Ask students to look at the Exercises 4 on page 20. And then wake in pairs to finish the exercises.

Teacher checks the answers and give the explanations.

(1) A cooking pot: A pot that is used for cooking.

(2) A drinking horse: A horse that is drinking water.

(3) The man sitting on the sofa is a friend of my brother's.

Here the -ing form are used as attribute.

(4) I saw the man sliding on a banner skin yesterday.

(5) Did you notice the man picking up that broken bottle and putting it in his bag?

Hear the -ing form are used as object complement The structure of the sentence with an object complement is:

Subject + Predicate + Object + Object complement

(6) Her job is looking after babies.

(7) What he likes is playing chess after supper.

Here the -ing form are used as predictive. Pay attention to the differences between -ing form used as predicative and present continuous tense.

(1) Her hobby is painting.

(2) Her favorite sport is skiing.

(3) This was very disappointing.

(4) The test results are very discouraging.

(5) She was very pleasing in her appearance.

(6) His concern for his mother is very touching.

(7) The photograph is missing.

(8) The article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized.

In the first two sentences, the -ing form is used to show the character of the subject. In the next four sentences the words of