In this episode, we explore the power of gerunds in English—those versatile “-ing” forms that function like nouns. You’ll learn which trigger words demand a gerund, and you’ll practice high-utility chunks like I can’t stand and I’m responsible for in real-world contexts: starting and stopping actions, expressing feelings and emotions, making decisions, and tackling challenges.

📚 Further Reading & Resources

Purdue OWL – Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitiveshttps://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/gerunds_participles_and_infinitives/index.html

Mango Languages – Gerunds in English: What Are They and How Are They Used?https://mangolanguages.com/resources/learn/grammar/english/gerunds-in-english-what-are-they-and-how-are-they-used

Preply Blog – Understanding English Gerunds: A Guidehttps://preply.com/en/blog/english-gerund/

EnglishAlex – 7 Ways to Use Gerunds (Including Passives!)https://www.englishalex.com/post/7-ways-to-use-gerunds-including-passives-audio-reading-included/

VOA Learning English – Verbs and Gerunds in Speech and Fiction Writinghttps://voa-story.com/2017-11-03-verbs-and-gerunds-in-speech-and-fiction-writing/

In this class we talked about so many different phrases that you can use in a conversation! Here are some:

👉🏻Discourse markers:

So basically…

Long story short…

At the end of the day…

I mean…

Not gonna lie (NGL)...

To be fair…

That being said…

For what it’s worth

Just putting it out there…

Lowkey / Highkey

👉🏻phrases for agreeing

for sure

definitely

no doubt

one hundred percent

I’m with you

that’s fairt

hat’s valid

me too/ I think so, too

me neither

I don’t either

👉🏻phrases for disagreeing

I mean...

I feel you, but...

I hear you, but...

That’s where I disagree

I gotta disagree with you there...

I’m gonna have to disagree with you there

That duoesn’t add up for me

Adding prepositions to the end of sentences!

Collocations with AT or IN

Subject questions with prepositions

Defining relative clauses

All of these topics come up in the live class today! Give it a listen :)

We talk about easily confused words like EFFECT and AFFECT, sensible and sensitive, amongst others!

To continue from the previous week, we had a live class with phrases that contain the word DO. As usual, this is a live class that is taught through instagram on Saturdays at 10am Chile time, and students participate by writing in the chat of the live while I am talking.

Video version coming soon!

Practice your listening and learn phrases at the same time!

Here is a live class we did, with phrases that include the word MAKE. Stay tuned because after this one we had a live class with the phrase DO which I will also upload.

In this class we practiced talking about preferences by answering "would you rather" questions. There is a lot of good everyday vocab in this one!

In this live class, I TAKE you on a journey with different phrases we can use with the word TAKE! During the class, students write commends with examples, which I read out loud during the class.