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FUNCTIONS
F1 Expressing wishes and regrets for past events
11 GRADE F2 Talking about unreal past events
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1 As You Wish

This activity enables students to express wishes and regrets for past events. It also helps them to improve their
listening, speaking and reading skills.

Materials and Preparation

Copy and cut up the worksheet on page 95 for each pair of students.

Procedure

1 Have students work in pairs and give them a set of role-play cards.
2 Get them to shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on the desk.
3 Ask them to take it in turns to take a card from the pile and tell their partner the location, their character and the action
which causes the problem. The partner, who takes on the role of the character, responds to the action by expressing
annoyance and makes a suitable I wish/If only sentence.
4 If the student can make a suitable sentence for the action, s/he wins the card. If not, s/he puts the card under the pile.
The student with the most cards is the winner of the game.

2 Chain Story

With this third conditional communicative activity, students will be able to talk about unreal past events. They will also be
able to practice four main language skills.

Materials and Preparation

Copy and cut up the worksheet on page 96 for each group of five or six students.

Procedure

1 Get students to work in groups of five or six.
2 Give each group member a slip of paper which contains a situation.
3 Explain the task. The first student reads out the situation on his/her paper. E.g. “Yesterday, you forgot to set the
alarm, so you were late for science class.” Then, the next student adds an appropriate third conditional sentence
to the situation. E.g. “If you hadn’t been late for science class, you wouldn’t have missed the experiment.” The third
student in the group takes the last clause and continues to add another third conditional sentence to make up a chain
story. E.g. “If you hadn’t missed the experiment, you’d have had fun with us.” Each student in the group is supposed
to take it in turns to add one sentence to the story. The game continues like this until all the group members read out
the situations on their papers to create a chain story.
4 The groups then decide on the most interesting chain story and write it down.
5 When all the groups have finished writing, they read out their stories to the class.
6 Get the class to vote for the funniest or strangest story.

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