Verbs followed by infinitive or gerund

Bare infinitive

Video

Practice

Practice 1
Practice 1a
Practice 1b
Practice 1c
Practice 1b

Practice 2

Myths about the brain

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Summerhill school - movie

Movie

Alternative schools

Focus on these questions while watching the videos or reading the descriptions:

1. When was it founded?
2. Who is/was the founder of the school?
3. Where/ In which country was their first school?
4. What is the school's philosophy about education (pupils/teachers)?

 or An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional.^[1][2] Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ad hoc assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of mainstream or traditional education.

Some schools are based on pedagogical approaches differing from that of the mainstream pedagogy employed in a culture, while other schools are for gifted students, children with special needs, children who have fallen off the track educationally, children who wish to explore unstructured or less rigid system of learning, etc.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_school

Group A: Budapest school

Video here

Group B: Rogers School:

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or client-centered approach) to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956.

The person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and counseling (client-centered therapy), education (student-centered learning), organizations, and other group settings. 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers

Headlines

Group C: Summerhill school:

Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. It is run as a democratic community; the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone, staff or pupil, may attend, and at which everyone has an equal vote. These meetings serve as both a legislative and judicial body. Members of the community are free to do as they please, so long as their actions do not cause any harm to others, according to Neill's principle "Freedom, not Licence." This extends to the freedom for pupils to choose which lessons, if any, they attend.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

Film review

Interactive exercise here

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Test your understanding here

Unreal past - summary

Refers to  FUTURE OR PRESENT


Someone + wish + someone/someone else +Past Simple --  wish about future and present
BUT:
Someone + wish + someone/someone else + could + base form -- regret

Someone + wish + someone/someone else + would + base form - annoyance,dissatisfaction

If only+ someone/someone else +Past Simple -- wish about future and present
BUT:
If only+ someone/someone else +could + base form -- regret
If only+ someone/someone else +would + base form - annoyance,dissatisfaction
someone +would rather +  someone else  + Past Simple -- preference, complaint or criticism
BUT: (someone)+would rather +base form 
It's (high/about) time + someone else +Past Simple 
BUT: It's (high/about) time + to + base form 
As if/as though+someone+Past Simple --for untrue situation
NOTE: As if I WERE or As if she WERE
Suppose+someone else + Past Simple --future and present


Refers to  PAST

Someone + wish + someone/someone else +Past Pefect -- regret
someone +would rather +  someone else  + Past Perfect -- preference, complaint or criticism
It's (high/about) time + someone else +Past Perfect
As if/as though+someone+Past Perfect --for unreal situation in the past
Suppose+someone else + Past Perfect 






Extra (not needed for the test):
Someone + wish + someone/someone else + could have  + past participle -- regret

Someone + wish + someone/someone else + would have + past participle - annoyance,dissatisfaction

If only+ someone/someone else +Past Perfect -- regret

If only+ someone/someone else +could have+ past participle -- regret
If only+ someone/someone else +would have+ past participle - annoyance,dissatisfaction)

Unreal past

Theory and practice here

Explanation and exercises here

Test here