Using Modals to Talk about Regrets / Mistakes
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The document discusses regrets over past mistakes and missed opportunities. It provides examples of poor decisions people made, such as eating cookies for dinner instead of a healthy meal, spending too much money and not being able to pay bills, and turning down a good job opportunity. For each example, it suggests better decisions that could have been made, such as eating a healthy meal instead of cookies, saving money to pay bills, and accepting the job. The document also discusses using "should have" and "should not have" to express mistakes that were made and things that would have been a good idea to do but were not.
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The document provides examples of questions formed based on statements of information. It demonstrates how to write who, what, when, where, why, and yes/no questions by changing the word order and adding question words like who, what, when, where, why, did, do, is. Examples are given for each type of question along with the answer that fits the given statement. Guidelines are also provided for using auxiliary verbs in questions and determining whether who/what/whom acts as the subject or object in a question.
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Using Modals to Talk about Regrets / Mistakes
- 1. { REGRETS Mistakes and Missed Opportunities
- 2. Have you made mistakes in the past? Have you ever wanted to go back and time to do things differently? What have you done recently that was a mistake? Did you fail to do something important recently? What was the result of not doing this? Conversation
- 3. { {What I did… I ate cookies for dinner. I spent too much money and couldn’t pay my bills. I turned down a great job opportunity. A better idea… Eating a healthy meal. Saving money to pay my bills Accepting the job POOR DECISIONS
- 4. { {What I did… I ate cookies. I didn’t save money. I didn’t accept the job. What I should have done… I should have eaten a healthy meal. I shouldn’t have eaten cookies. I should have saved my money. I shouldn’t have spent it. I should have accepted the job.
- 5. { should have/ should not have -To express mistakes that were made -To talk about things that were a good idea to do but were not done
- 6. { P. 170 Listen to Exercise 26 How are “should have” and “should not have” often pronounced?
- 7. What should these people have done? What should they not have done?
- 8. I missed the bus!
- 9. I got a parking ticket!
- 10. I feel so full and my tummy hurts.
- 11. I didn’t do well on the grammar exam!
- 12. Jessica fell when she was running up the stairs.
- 15. Bader came to school even though it was cancelled because of the snow.
- 16. Shafi called Jessica and left a message but she couldn’t hear it very well.