English V - Week 4 - Wishes & Regrets

Introduction: In today's class we will continue Unit 8 on the topic of wishes and regrets. We will listen to people from different occupations talk about their wishes and we will analyze some difficult social situations and express some regrets people have. Finally, we will watch a video about the topic of the important things in life.

Warm Up: What are they thinking?

Click the link to the Jam Board. One person in your group should share the screen. Use the sticky note (nota adhesiva) function to write a message expressing what the person might be thinking. Have fun and be creative!

• Activity: CLICK HERE

Task 1: Read the Bucket List Wall

Last week you added some ideas to a graffiti wall to express your "bucket list" wishes, things you hope to accomplish in your lifetime.  CLICK HERE to look at the wall and read the comments with your partners. Use the sentence starters below to discuss them: 

• I identify with this post because ...
• This makes me think about ...
• I don't have this desire, but I would like to ...
• That's interesting because ...

Task 2: Grammar Review - Conditionals

Conditionals are a difficult topic because they have many different varitions. The important thing to remember is they refer to situation (real or imaginary) and the probable results. Look at the examples below and answer these questions.

• Is it talking about a present/future situation or a past situation?
• Is it talking about a real situation or an imaginary situation?
• How is the sentence formed?

• Zero Conditional: If you stand in the rain, you get wet. If you don't sleep, you feel tired.
• First Conditional: If I study, I will pass my exam. If I get a better job, I will make more money.
• Second Conditional: If I had more money, I would travel to Paris. If I were you, I would stop smoking.
• Third Conditional: If I had studied more, I would known the answer. If she hadn't spent all her money last week, she would have bought a new pair of shoes.

Now, click play on the game below and match the description with the ZERO, FIRST, or SECOND Conditional. 

Now play this one with your partners to practice the THIRD conditional.

Task 3: Listening Practice - What do you wish for?

Go to page 96 in your book and do the following tasks. 

1. Look at the pictures and the names of the occupations. Who do you think has the most interesting job? Why?
2. Read the WORDBUILDING SECTION and complete exercise 2 to identify the occupations.
3. Play the audio and listen to the people talking about their wishes. Take notes about what they say.
4. Play the audio again and complete the missing words in exercise 4.

Task 4: Grammar Practice - Wishes and Regrets

Click on your group link and complete the tasks in the document with your partners.

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE

Task 5: What do they wish or regret?

Click the link and look at the pictures again. This time follow the instructions to write wishes and regrets.

• Activity: CLICK HERE

Task 6: Awkward Situations

Click your group link and follow the instructions.

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE
• Group 4: CLICK HERE
• Group 5: CLICK HERE

Task 7: Awkward Conversations

Click the link. Choose one of the awkward situations and create a dialogue based on it using the voice recorder function of Padlet. 

• Padlet: CLICK HERE