Playing games is a fun way to learn English. In my non-credit Level 5 class, I have designed a game to get the students to learn to use a gerund as the subject of a sentence. My experience tells me that while it is easy for them to understand such a sentence, they seldom use it in their own speaking or writing.  

The first thing I do is to give the students the following as part of the “Word Study” in a lesson. The Word Study ^[1] is done where I pick out from a text for intensive study three or four active words (mostly verbs but sometimes nouns, adjectives and adverbs), expressions and sentence patterns. Examples are given to explain the use.