2. Topic: Expressing wishes and regrets
Objectives:
Learn how to use correctly wish / if only to
express regrets in English in order to facilitate the
communication.
Strengthen the speaking ability in order to reach a
high level of proficiency according to the level of
students
3. Warm-up
Are you agree or disagree?
Have you lost chances in your life? If you
want, tell us what kind of chances
Why did you lose important chances in your
life
Have you lost important chances in the
love?
What could be the best strategy to avoid the
possibility of losing important chances in the
life?
7. Practice
Please, open the following link, watch
the video and write five examples with
I wish and five examples with If only
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b
uFJvc59uZU
8. Practice with
the following
conversation
A: How was your test?
B: Terrible! I failed.
A: What happened?
B: I thought it was going to be easy.
A: So you didn’t study?
B: I did study a little, but I wish I had
studied harder.
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https://bogglesworldesl.com/Listening/Regret
Beg1.html
9. Production
Answer the following questions
• What are three wishes you have for your life?
• If you could choose only one of these to
come true, which would it be and why?
• What would be some positive and negative
consequences (results) if each of these
wishes came true?
• What other wishes do you have for yourself?
• What wishes do your parents have for you?
• Are they the same?
• What wishes do you have for your country?
• For your family members?
• For your classmates?
• For your roommates?
10. • How have your wishes changed since you were
young?
• When you were young, how did you answer this
questions: "What do you want to be when you grow
up?"
• Have you ever had a wish come true?
• Was it what you always wanted?
• Why do we wish for things we don't have?
• If you have a wish but your family doesn't agree with
you, what should you do?
• Do you have any strange wishes?
• Why are wishes very important to people?
• Do you really want all your wishes to come true?
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