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THEME 5 BACK TO THE PAST

FUNCTIONS
F1 Expressing wishes and regrets for past events
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11 GRADE F2 Talking about unreal past events

3 How I Wish!

This activity aims at expressing wishes and regrets for past events. It also encourages students to improve their listening,
reading and writing skills.

Materials and Preparation

Divide the students into groups of two and deliver each pair the photocopiable material on page 97.

Procedure

1 Have students read the situation on the photocopiable material and complete the sentences in the table.
2 Then students may read their set of sentences aloud and the rest of the class can vote on which sentences are the
best.

4 Guess What!

This activity aims at talking about unreal past events. It also encourages students to improve their listening and speaking
skills.

Materials and Preparation

Explain the rules of the game.

Procedure

1 Ask a student, a volunteer hopefully, to leave the room. While that person is out of the room, you and the rest of the
class decide on something very unusual that could have happened while s/he was out of the room. A good example
is the birthday of someone in the class and whatever the students can suggest for such an event.
2 Then, the person who has left the room comes back in and asks each student in turn only one question in full: “What
would you have done if this had happened?”
3 And each student in turn answers in a full sentence, for example, “If this had happened, I would have bought some
flowers.”
4 Now, they mustn’t mention the names of anyone involved because at the end, the student who is guessing has to
work out what happened to whom and, if they can’t, you can go round again with new answers.
5 As this is for speaking practice, encourage the students to use the contracted forms: “If this’d happened, I’d have
bought some flowers.”

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