Mistakes Diagnosis LC Test

LC mistakes:
1) Lose =/= waste
2) demonstrative pronouns
3) hear=/= listen

Activity:
Situations to act out. The other Ss guess what the situation is and how the people are listening. (adverbs)
1. Teacher reading out marks. Ss listening anxiously.
2. A lecturer/a priest. People listening silently.
3. A friend with problems. Listening sympathetically
4. Your boyfriend's parents. Listening politely.
5. T telling a story. Children listening eagerly.
6. Answering machine giving options. Listening patiently.

4) Indefinite pronouns

5) Stop + to / Stop + -ing (by Rocío Holgado and Ángela Zámolo)

Complete the blanks with the verb given.
1)Stop __________ (worry). Anxiety only makes problems worse.
2)Sonia stopped___________ (cook). She doesn’t cook anymore.
3)Tomás was singing aloud. He stopped __________ (listen) to the match.
4)Will you stop ___________ (talk)?
5)I stopped ___________ (go) to evening classes. I gave up school.

Some verbs, like stop , can be followed by either an –ing form or an infinitive form, but their meanings are very different.
Examples:
a- He stopped to buy some flowers. (he stopped for a purpose)
He stopped buying flowers. (he doesn’t buy flowers any more)
b- She stopped to buy ice-cream. (she stopped another activity in order to buy ice-cream)
She stopped buying ice-cream. (she doesn’t buy ice-cream any more)
c- I stopped to drink some coffee. (I stopped another activity in order to buy some coffee)
I stopped drinking coffee. (I don’t drink coffee any more)

More Theory:

6) Other, another, others