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Making suggestion Showing preference
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Usually when we show a preference for something, we also
give a reason.
e.g., I’d rather go next week because I should be able to get
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some more money by then.
Look at how suggestion and preference phrases are followed by
infinitive, ‘to’ infinitive or gerund forms of the verb:

Why don’t we Would you like What/How about
+ do? + to do? + doing?
Let’s + do I’d rather + do What do you think
about + doing?
I suggest we + do I’d like + to do I suggest + doing
Can’t we + do? I(d) prefer + to do
I think we should + do

Listening and comprehending

Close your books. Your teacher will narrate a story.
Listen carefully, think and answer the questions given
below orally.
The golden eagle
Once a man found an eagle’s egg and placed it under a
brooding hen. The eagle hatched with the chickens and grew
to be like them. He clucked and cackled; scratched the earth
for worms; flapped his wings and managed to fly a few feet in
the air. Years passed. One day, the eagle, now grown old, saw
a magnificent bird above him in the sky. It glided in graceful
majesty against the powerful wind, with scarcely a movement
of its golden wings.

Spellbound, the eagle asked “Who is that?”
“That’s the king of the birds, the eagle”, said his neighbour.
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