Listening Four
Identifying Participles
- Participle I or Participle II? Listen and circle the participles you hear.
- They were (taken / taking) in by surprise.
- She’s always been (forbidden / forbidding) to do it.
- Is it (shaken / shaking) from time to time?
- I was (given / giving) a chance to improve the things.
- The leaves are (fallen / falling) and the trees look gloomy.
- They were (beaten / beating).
- They are (grown / growing).
- Have they (thrown / been throwing) them out.
- They are (eaten / eating).
- It’s (been / being) done.
- -ed or -ing participles / adjectives?
- She is not (interested interesting) at all.
- He was (annoyed annoying) from time to time.
- We felt (depressed / depressing) after his visit.
- I’m very (excited / exciting) about my holiday.
- Reading is very (relaxed / relaxing).
- I’m (bored/ boring) with my job.
- Weekends are more (tired / tiring) than weekdays.
- You don’t look very (interested / interesting) in the lesson.
- You look (exhausted / exhausting) after the journey.
- The answer didn’t sound (satisfied / satisfying) to most of us.