Read the jokes and comment on the functions of the Gerunds. Act them out in pairs.
v One of Kembles made his first appearance on the stage as an opera singer. His voice was, however, so bad that at a rehearsal the conductor of the orchestra called out: ‘Mr. Kemble! Mr. Kemble! You are murdering the music!’ ‘My dear sir,’ was the quiet rejoinder, ‘it is far better to murder it outright, than to keep on beating it as you do.’ v A composer once brought a manuscript to Rossini, who, on listening, every minute took off his hat and put it on again. The composer asked whether he was so warm. ‘No,’ said Rossini, ‘but I am in the habit of taking off my hat whenever I meet an old acquaintance, and there are so many I remember in your composition, that I have continually to bow.’ v ‘Doctor, how is a man to tell a mushroom from a toadstool?’ ‘By eating it. If you live, it’s a mushroom; if you die, it’s a toadstool.’
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History of Theatre in Great Britain
