In each sentence, use either the "gérondif" (en+participe present), the "participe présent" alone, or the participe présent composé ("ayant mangé," "étant monté"), whichever is correct.

1. actions that you or someone else like to do at the same time or one after the other.
J'aime conduire en écoutant la radio. 
        Ayant péparé ma voiture, j'aime partir en voyage dès la fin des classes.
2. actions that you or someone else don't like to do at the same time or one after the other.
Je ne peux pas faire mes devoirs en regardant la télévision. 
        Je déteste travailler rapidement ne finissant qu'à la dernière seconde.
3. actions that you or someone else did at the same time or one after the other.
        Je me suis promené tout en songeant à ma petite-amie. 
        Etant descendu du quatorzième étage de Watterson, je me suis mis à courir pour arriver à l'heure.
4. actions that you or someone else did not do at the same time or one after the other.
        Nous ne sommes pas revenus en prenant la route de la mer.
5. an action that you have seen someone else doing.
J'ai vu Jean-Paul sortant d'un match de football.
        Pensant que le film était très mauvais, je n'ai pas quitté le cinéma.

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1.  Write a sentence about two actions that you like to do at the same time.

2.  Write a sentence about an action you saw your professor doing.

3. Write a sentence about something you like to do while eating.

4. Write a sentence about how (the means by which) you finish all your work at ISU.

5.  Write a sentence about what you do when entering your apartment or room.

6. Write a sentence about two things that you will do, one right after the other, when you hear that you have won the lottery.

7. Write a sentence about the way you drive to school ("By....ing..., I....)

8. Write a sentence about two shocking things that someone did at the same time.

9.  Write a sentence about how you gained or lost weight.

10. Write a sentence about what you like doing while watching television.

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