IELTS Speaking Course: Lesson 7 - Gerunds & Infinitives

This grammar point will help you form more complex sentences, which is what examiners look for when awarding higher band scores to candidates.

Pile of textbooks stacked on a table. Used to represent gerunds and infinitives in this IELTS speaking course.
This lesson will be a little more grammar-focused. (Photo by Clarissa Watson / Unsplash).

Hi everyone and welcome to lesson 7 of this online speaking course. In this lesson we will be looking at a grammar point that is studied at varying degrees of difficulty from the lower levels right up to the advanced levels. This grammar point will help you form more complex sentences, which is something that examiners look for when awarding higher band scores to candidates. Watch the video below for more information.


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In the video, I talked about a modal phrase which is followed by the base form, but there are many other modal phrases that are followed by different forms. This is shown in the pdf at the bottom of this lesson and this document will also help you complete the exercises below.