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Where jazz was born: love, like, enjoy and hate + -ing

This A2 ESL lesson plan teaches gerunds after love, like, enjoy and hate, plus don't mind, for saying how people feel about activities.

Grammar
Love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind + verb-ing (I love dancing. She doesn't mind waiting.), loves and doesn't for he and she, Do you enjoy…? and -ing spelling.
Topic
Music in New Orleans, which many people call the birthplace of jazz, with words such as brass band, second line, trumpet and beignet.
Activities
A city guide post to read, a dialogue at a street parade and a voice message to hear, self-checking drills, a chat about what students enjoy and open-box questions.

What's inside

  1. Chapter 1Welcome to New Orleans!

    • PictureUnlock
    • Spin the wheel and answerSpin the wheelUnlock
    • Study the words: music in New OrleansVocabularyTry it
    • Look at the pictures and chooseChoose by pictureUnlock

  2. Chapter 2Let's read: the city of jazz

    • Look at the photo: the French QuarterPictureUnlock
    • Read the city guide postReal-life documentTry it
    • Read and mark true or falseTrue or falseUnlock
    • Read again and choose the right answerQuizUnlock

  3. Chapter 3Let's listen: a second line!

    • Listen to Nora and CurtisListeningTry it
    • Transcript, for the teacherUnlock
    • Listen and choose the right answerQuizUnlock
    • Listen to Grandpa's ChallengeListeningUnlock
    • Transcript, for the teacherUnlock
    • Listen and mark true or falseTrue or falseUnlock

  4. Chapter 4Grammar: I love dancing!

    • Study the scheme: love, enjoy, hate + -ingGrammar schemeTry it
    • Choose the correct optionChoose the optionUnlock
    • Fill in the gaps: write the -ing formFill in the gapsTry it
    • Fill in the table: love and don't mind + -ingFill in the tableUnlock
    • Choose the right sentenceQuizUnlock

  5. Chapter 5Let's talk: what do you love doing?

    • Choose the right replies: what do you enjoy?ChatTry it
    • Open a box and answer: what do you love doing?Open the boxUnlock

  6. Chapter 6Homework

    • Match the words and the meaningsMatchUnlock
    • Unscramble the wordsAnagramUnlock
    • Fill in the gaps with the lesson's wordsFill in the gapsUnlock
    • Sort the words into the correct columnsSort into columnsUnlock
    • Choose the correct wordChoose the optionUnlock
    • Put the words in the correct orderUnjumbleUnlock
    • Fill in the gaps: make sentences with -ingFill in the gapsUnlock
    • Choose the correct option: Marco's postChoose the optionUnlock
    • Drag the words into the gaps: Nora's message to GrandpaDrag and dropUnlock

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Vocabulary

10 words and phrases from the lesson, each with a picture and audio in edio.

+7 more with pictures and audio in the lessonMore words

  • trumpet
  • brass band
  • second line
  • parasol
  • handkerchief
  • beignet
  • lagniappe

Grammar: gerunds after love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind

Love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind are verbs followed by gerunds, the -ing form of a verb used like a noun: I love dancing. Among the brass bands of New Orleans, learners add a second verb with -ing, change the first verb for he and she, ask Do you enjoy…? and spell each -ing form.

I love dancing! She doesn't mind waiting.

After love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind, use a verb with -ing.

From love to hate: five verbs + -ing

The scheme ranks the five verbs by feeling. Love means you like it a lot, like that it's nice, enjoy that it's fun, don't mind that it's OK and hate not at all. Every one of them takes verb + -ing: We enjoy clapping along. I don't mind waiting.

VerbIt means…Example
love ❤️❤️I like it a lotI love dancing.
like ❤️it's niceI like listening to jazz.
enjoy 😊it's fun for meWe enjoy clapping along.
don't mind 😐it's OK, not a problemI don't mind waiting.
hate 😖I don't like it at allMarco hates practicing.

Loves, doesn't mind: every person

Only the first verb changes for he, she and it: He loves clapping. She doesn't mind waiting. The -ing verb stays the same for every subject: They hate shopping. You enjoy singing. The examples from New Orleans use both loves and doesn't mind.

Every person

Wholove, enjoy, hatedon't mind / doesn't mind
II love dancing.I don't mind waiting.
youYou enjoy singing.You don't mind walking.
he, she, itHe loves clapping. It loves sleeping.She doesn't mind waiting.
weWe enjoy listening to jazz.We don't mind sitting on the floor.
theyThey hate shopping.They don't mind driving.

In New Orleans

  • Curtis loves playing the trumpet.
  • Nora enjoys filming the second line.
  • Biscuit loves stealing beignets!
  • Marco doesn't mind playing wrong notes.
  • Do you enjoy listening to jazz? – Yes, I do!

Do you enjoy…? Questions and short answers

Questions open with Do or Does, and the short answer repeats it: Do you enjoy listening to jazz? Yes, I do. Does she like dancing? No, she doesn't. After Does, the first verb drops its -s: Does he like, never Does he likes.

QuestionShort answer
Do you enjoy listening to jazz?Yes, I do. / No, I don't.
Does she like dancing?Yes, she does. / No, she doesn't.
Do they love cooking?Yes, they do. / No, they don't.

Spelling the -ing form

Most verbs add -ing (playing, listening), verbs ending in -e drop it (dancing, practicing), and a short verb ending in one vowel and one consonant doubles the consonant: clapping, swimming. W, x and y never double (fixing), two vowels block the double (eating), and travel just adds -ing: traveling.

-ing spelling

The verbWhat to doExamples
most verbsadd -ingplay → playing, listen → listening, steal → stealing
ends in -edrop the e, add -ingdance → dancing, make → making, practice → practicing
a short verb: one vowel + one consonant at the enddouble the consonant, add -ingclap → clapping, swim → swimming, sit → sitting

Watch out: spelling

Never double w, x or y: play → playing, fix → fixing. Two vowels: no double: eat → eating, wait → waiting. These longer verbs just add -ing: listen → listening, visit → visiting, travel → traveling.

Enjoy and don't mind: -ing only

Love, like and hate can also take to + verb (I love to dance), but the drills stay with -ing. Enjoy and don't mind never take to: I enjoy dancing, not I enjoy to dance. Don't mix the two forms either: I hate to waiting is wrong.

love, like, hate: also to + verb

After love, like and hate, you can also say to + verb: I love to dance. In this lesson, we use -ing. After enjoy and don't mind, use only -ing: I enjoy dancing (not: I enjoy to dance). Don't mix them: I hate waiting or I hate to wait (not: I hate to waiting).

Common mistakes

  • I enjoy to dance.

    I enjoy dancing.

    enjoy + -ing, never to

  • I don't mind to wait.

    I don't mind waiting.

    don't mind + -ing

  • I love dance with my friends.

    I love dancing with my friends.

    love + -ing, not the base form

  • I'm enjoying dancing every Sunday.

    I enjoy dancing every Sunday.

    a habit (every Sunday): present simple

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What's in the lesson

  • 17 auto-checked exercises
  • 4 games
  • 1 real-life document
  • 1 grammar scheme
  • 1 set of word cards
  • 2 audio clips
  • 2 pictures
  • 2 transcripts

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

  • say what they love, like, enjoy and hate doing: I love dancing. I hate washing the dishes.
  • say an activity is OK with don't mind or doesn't mind + -ing: I don't mind waiting. He doesn't mind sitting on the steps.
  • ask about likes with Do and Does and answer briefly: Do you enjoy listening to jazz? Yes, I do.
  • spell the -ing form: dancing, clapping, swimming, fixing, traveling

Lesson 21 opens Music and nights out, the sixth unit of English A2.1 · Then and Now. It builds on A1.1 lesson 17, where love and like took a noun (I love pancakes.), and on the -ing spelling of A1.2 lesson 7; here an activity with -ing follows the verb. Lesson 23 later puts the same -ing form after How about. In a city where crowds dance behind brass bands, sentences like I love dancing come naturally.

Students spin a wheel of questions about music, dancing and sweet food, then learn ten words with pictures and audio, from dance and clap to beignet and lagniappe. They read a city guide post on jazz in New Orleans, from Congo Square to Louis Armstrong, with true-or-false and multiple-choice questions. Then come Nora's talk with a trumpet player at a second line (an AI-voiced dialogue) and Grandpa's voice message with a challenge, with transcripts in the teacher's notes. After the scheme come four self-checking exercises, including -ing forms typed into gaps and a table of love and don't mind. In the speaking chapter, students answer Marco's messages in a chat and open boxes about what they love and hate doing.

Homework is nine exercises that check themselves: a word match, an anagram, two gap-fills, a column sort, a choose-the-word drill, word-order sentences, and Marco's post and Nora's message to Grandpa with gaps.

Grammar:
love / like / enjoy / hate + -ing · don't mind + -ing · -ing spelling · Do you enjoy…?
Topic:
New Orleans · jazz · brass bands · second line · Louis Armstrong · beignets · Grandpa's Map

Teaching tips

  • Draw a feelings line on the board, from love to hate with don't mind in the middle. Call out an activity, such as cooking, and students stand on the line and say where they are: I don't mind cooking.
  • Ask what students know about New Orleans before the city guide post, then have them find two years in it: when Louis Armstrong was born and when Preservation Hall opened.
  • Play the second-line dialogue twice: first to find out what a second line is, then to catch every -ing form after love, enjoy, hate and don't mind, such as doesn't mind playing wrong notes.
  • Turn the open boxes into a class survey: each student asks three classmates Do you enjoy dancing? or Do you mind waiting in line? and reports one answer: She doesn't mind waiting.

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The whole course: English A2.1 · Then and Now

32 lessons for adults at A2 in simple American English, from the past simple to going to, should and might. Eight units tell stories of journeys, American firsts, food, places, sports, music, neighbors and dreams. Pictures and definitions replace translations, and the practice exercises check themselves.See the course

  1. Unit 1 Amazing journeys

    the past simple, regular and irregular verbs, negatives, prepositions of movement

    1. Lesson 1Around the world in 72 daysThe past simple of regular verbs
    2. Lesson 2The first drive across AmericaIrregular verbs in the past simple
    3. Lesson 3Get your kicks on Route 66Past simple negatives with didn't
    4. Lesson 4She walked 2,000 miles in sneakersPrepositions of movement

  2. Unit 2 American firsts

    was and were, past questions and short answers, ago and in, could for past ability

    1. Lesson 5The first American woman in spaceWas, were, there was and there were
    2. Lesson 6A real bug in the computerPast simple questions with did
    3. Lesson 7“Mr. Watson, come here”Wh- questions in the past simple
    4. Lesson 8Twelve seconds in the airCould and couldn't for past ability

  3. Unit 3 American food

    countable and uncountable nouns, comparatives, ordering food, a few and a little

    1. Lesson 9The first chocolate chip cookieCountable and uncountable nouns in a recipe
    2. Lesson 10Is a jalapeño hotter than a habanero?Comparatives of short adjectives
    3. Lesson 11Two eggs, sunny side up!Offers and orders with would like
    4. Lesson 12Cooking for twenty on ThanksgivingA few, a little and a lot of

  4. Unit 4 City or country?

    comparatives with more and less, superlatives, as … as, too and enough

    1. Lesson 13The island with no carsComparatives with more and less, plus better, worse and farther
    2. Lesson 14America's extremesSuperlatives with the + -est, the most and the least
    3. Lesson 15San Francisco or Yosemite? You choose!As … as for the same, not as … as for less
    4. Lesson 16A park on an old railroadToo, enough and not … enough

  5. Unit 5 Game on

    play, go and do with sports, going to, adverbs of manner, reflexive pronouns

    1. Lesson 17Basketball started with peach baskets?Play, go and do with sports
    2. Lesson 18What's going to happen at LA 2028?Be going to for plans and predictions
    3. Lesson 19Pickleball: a game from a backyardAdverbs of manner
    4. Lesson 20Be brave and tryReflexive pronouns and each other

  6. Unit 6 Music and nights out

    love, enjoy and hate + -ing, the present continuous for plans, suggestions, to for purpose

    1. Lesson 21 · you're hereWhere jazz was bornGerunds after love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind
    2. Lesson 22Music on every streetThe present continuous for future arrangements
    3. Lesson 23A night on BroadwaySuggestions with Let's, Why don't we and How about
    4. Lesson 24An orchestra for every kidThe infinitive of purpose and to or for

  7. Unit 7 Neighbors and community

    much and many, should, something and everyone, because and so

    1. Lesson 25Everybody cleans up!Much and many with nouns you can and can't count
    2. Lesson 26Good neighbors shovel snowShould and shouldn't + the base verb
    3. Lesson 27Take a book, leave a bookIndefinite pronouns with some-, any-, no- and every-
    4. Lesson 28A bench for making friendsBecause for reasons, so for results

  8. Unit 8 Plans and dreams

    verb + to, the present continuous vs going to, might, when, before and after

    1. Lesson 29Never give up: from farm fields to spaceVerb + to + the base form
    2. Lesson 30Across America by trainGoing to and the present continuous for the future
    3. Lesson 31Open in the year 6939Might and might not for possibility
    4. Lesson 32A college graduate at 95Time clauses with when, before and after

Questions about this lesson

What is a gerund?
A gerund is the -ing form of a verb used as a noun: Dancing is fun. It often follows verbs of liking and disliking, as in I love dancing, We enjoy clapping along and She doesn't mind waiting. It looks like the present continuous, but there's no am, is or are before it: I love dancing is a feeling, while I'm dancing is happening now.
What does "don't mind" mean?
Don't mind means something is OK for you, not a problem: I don't mind waiting. It sits between like and hate, and a verb after it takes -ing, never to: I don't mind driving, not I don't mind to drive. With he, she or it, it becomes doesn't mind. In answer to Do you mind waiting?, No, I don't mind means it's fine.
How do you make the -ing form of a verb?
The -ing form is the base verb plus -ing, with a few spelling rules: play becomes playing and listen becomes listening. A final -e drops (dance, dancing; practice, practicing), and a short verb ending in one vowel and one consonant doubles the consonant (clap, clapping; swim, swimming). W, x and y never double (fixing), and in American English travel gives traveling.
Which verbs are followed by gerunds?
Verbs of liking and disliking are everyday verbs followed by gerunds: love, like, enjoy, hate and don't mind, as in I enjoy cooking and They hate shopping. Finish and keep take a gerund too: I finished eating. Some of these take only -ing (enjoy, don't mind, finish, keep), while love, like and hate can also take to + verb: I love to dance.
Is it "I like dancing" or "I like to dance"?
I like dancing and I like to dance are both correct, with little change in meaning. Love and hate work the same way (I hate waiting, I hate to wait), but the two forms never mix: I hate to waiting is wrong. Enjoy takes only -ing. In Where jazz was born, an A2 lesson on edio.ai, the drills use -ing, and a scheme tip shows the to form.
How do you talk about likes and dislikes with -ing verbs?
For likes and dislikes, use a verb of feeling, then the activity with -ing: I love dancing. I enjoy singing. I don't mind waiting. I hate washing the dishes. For a thing rather than an activity, a noun follows: I love jazz. A chat in the A2 lesson Where jazz was born on edio.ai asks What do you enjoy doing on the weekend? and later What do you hate doing at home?
Is it "I enjoy to dance" or "I enjoy dancing"?
The correct form is I enjoy dancing, because enjoy is followed by -ing, never to. Don't mind works the same way: I don't mind waiting, not I don't mind to wait. Two more slips to watch are the base form after love (I love dance with my friends should be I love dancing with my friends) and the present continuous for a habit: I'm enjoying dancing every Sunday should be I enjoy dancing every Sunday.
What does "lagniappe" mean?
Lagniappe, said LAN-yap, is a New Orleans word for a small extra gift from a store, like a thirteenth doughnut in a dozen: The baker gave us one more cookie for free. That's lagniappe! Two more New Orleans words: a beignet is a square doughnut with powdered sugar, and a second line is the crowd dancing behind a brass band. Word cards with pictures and audio teach all three in Where jazz was born on edio.ai.
How do I teach gerunds to A2 students?
Begin with activities students really love and hate, before any rules: ask Do you like cooking? and recast each answer as I love cooking or I don't mind cooking. Then show loves and doesn't mind for he and she, questions with Do and Does, and the -ing spelling last. Flag early that enjoy and don't mind never take to, since I enjoy to dance is a frequent slip.
What's a good game for practicing gerunds?
A good one is open-the-box prompts about what people love doing: each box hides a task such as Say one thing you hate doing at home or Say two things you don't mind doing, and the student answers aloud. A spin-the-wheel warm-up of questions like Do you like dancing? Where do you dance? gets the class talking first. Where jazz was born, an A2 lesson on edio.ai, has both games.
What's good homework for practicing love, like and hate + -ing?
Good homework is drills that build -ing sentences from two prompts: (enjoy, dance) becomes We enjoy dancing at family parties, and (not mind, get) becomes I don't mind getting up early. Word-order sentences and a short post with -ing choices add more practice, and every answer checks itself. The homework of Where jazz was born on edio.ai has nine self-checking exercises, from an anagram to a message with gaps.
Are there interactive exercises for gerunds?
Yes: gap-fills that check each -ing form and chat role-plays give instant feedback. Without signing up, this page plays four parts of Where jazz was born, an A2 lesson on edio.ai: the New Orleans city guide post, a dialogue between Nora and a trumpet player at a second line, a gap-fill that asks for the -ing form, and a chat about what you enjoy. Everything else, the table included, is locked.
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