This document outlines the activities and lessons in the English file Pre-Intermediate Unit 7B, which focuses on gerunds and happiness. The unit includes discussions on what makes students happy, a reading on happiness vocabulary, exercises completing sentences with gerunds, grammar presentations and exercises on gerunds, quizzes on vocabulary and facts about happiness, listening and speaking practice using gerunds, and a discussion comparing ideas about happiness.

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 7B - Gerunds

2. • Lead in – photos describing happiness (5 mins)
• Discussion questions – happiness (10 mins)
• Discussion – music / films that make you happy (5 mins)
• Reading – happiness is .... – new vocabulary (10 mins)
• Vocabulary – gerunds – completing sentences (10 mins)
• Grammar – gerunds – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – gerunds – presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – gerunds – exercises (10 mins) 60
• Fun facts about happiness quiz (10 mins)
• Discussion – Happiness is ............... – comparing (5 mins)
• Listening practice – the bank of happiness (10 mins)
• Discussion – the bank of happiness (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – ing forms and the letter O (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – gerunds and activities (10 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

4. • What things make you happy?
• When was the last time you did something
that made you really happy?
• What do you do to cheer yourself up if
you’re ever feeling down?
• Can buying things make you happy?
• What could you buy for yourself that
would make you happy?

9. We use the
-ing form
after
finish.

10. tidying
working
being
having
waking up
doing
talking
raining
making
cooking

12. 4- after finish
1- after without 2 – as a noun
2 – as a noun 2 – as a noun 2 – as a noun

13. 2 – as a noun 2 – as a noun 2 – as a noun
3 – negative = not
+ ng

14. without asking
parking, fitting, finding (x2), sitting,
landing, reading
not having to

16. swimming
practising
remembering
Teaching
messaging
not knowing
Travelling
studying

17. Using infinitives
•I want to buy a new phone.
•After certain verbs
•It’s difficult to save money.
•After adjectives
•He went to Tesco to get some milk
•To say why we do something

19. Doing
to pay
to park
giving
to get
raining
cooking
doing
getting up

21. Sleep can really affect happiness. A study found that students who
had less sleep had trouble remembering happy words, but remembered
negative words better. The sleepy students later remembered ___%
of the negative words but only 31% of the positive words.
81
A) 41
B) 61
C) 81

22. ‘Stop and smell the roses’ is actually really good advice.
A study done by Rutgers University found that floral scents trigger the
brain and increase feelings of happiness. People in the study that smelled
flowers were __ times likelier to feel happier than people who didn’t
3
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4

23. Happiness is contagious and you can catch it from friends
Surrounding yourself with happy people will cause that happiness to
rub off on you. A study found that your possibility of happiness
rises ___ percent if a family member or close friend is happy.
15
A) 5
B) 10
C) 15

24. Coffee can help to improve your happiness and your life!
Spanish researchers found that those who drank four cups of coffee were
_ _ percent less likely to die than the non-coffee drinkers.
64
A) 24
B) 44
C) 64

25. Exercising longer doesn’t necessarily improve happiness
While some exercise boosts your mood a bit, a lot of exercise doesn't
necessarily boost it a lot. A study found that people who exercised just
___ had the same mood improvement as people who exercised 30 minutes.
10
A) 10
B) 15
C) 25

26. Taking a Break from Social Media Boosts Happiness
A group of Danish researchers asked a group of people to stop using
Facebook for _________ and their life satisfaction went from 7.56 to
8.12. People who didn’t stop saw their score remain the same.
one week
A) one
week
B) two
weeks
C) three
weeks

39. • shopping = 4
• nothing = 6
• boring = 2
• ironing = 3
• going = 1
• doing = 5