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The -ing Form

Gerund after like/dislike and adjective plus preposition
About this worksheet
Exercises from your Word Play B1 materials. Total: 11 points.
Type or select your answers, then submit at the bottom.
Exercise 1
Complete with the correct preposition
7 points
Fill in: at / about / of / in / on.
1
The students were crazy playing computer games, but now they are tired doing that.
2
Are you good listening to people?
3
I am afraid going through the park at night.
4
We are not interested learning about physics.
5
I am quite keen understanding how devices work so I am not bad mending things.
Exercise 2
Rewrite using the -ing form
4 points
Rewrite each sentence using the words in brackets plus the -ing form.
1
Jon makes friends easily. (good at)
2
Kim plays computer games all the time. (crazy about)
3
Monica finds it difficult to learn Japanese. (bad at)
4
Norma left because she did not want to do more exercise. (tired of)
Exercise 3 — Error Correction
Each sentence contains exactly one error. Type the corrected sentence or just the corrected word(s).
1
Find and correct the ONE error: "I am looking forward to see you next week."
2
Find and correct the ONE error: "She is good at to cook Italian food."
3
Find and correct the ONE error: "After to finish work, he went to the gym."
4
Find and correct the ONE error: "They enjoy to play tennis on weekends."
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