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    6 Regrets

    Before you watch


    1 Work in groups. Read these quotes and discuss what the people meant.
    Do you agree with them?
    Youth is a blunder; manhood a
    struggle; old age a regret.
    Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century
    British Prime Minister

    Nowadays most people die of a


    sort of creeping common sense,
    and discover when it is too late
    that the only things one never If I had my life to live over, I’d try to
    regrets are one’s mistakes. make more mistakes next time.
    Oscar Wilde, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
    Irish author and playwright

    While you watch


    2 Watch the programme and match the people with the regrets (a–j). There are two extra regrets.
    a) moving away from his/her mum f) not knowing his/her father better
    b) not learning to swim g) starting to smoke
    c) not driving across the USA h) not continuing to work in the theatre
    d) getting drunk the night before a wedding i) buying a second-hand car
    e) not taking a year out travelling j) not dating a girl at university

    Penny Tony Kate Keith

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    Lucas Sarah Michael Maria-Elena

    3 Match the two halves of the sentences (a–h with 1–8).


    a) If I had stayed nearer 1 I could have been maybe rich and famous.
    b) I really wish I hadn’t got very drunk 2 and gone to all the places that you never get a
    c) I wish that I’d taken a whole year out chance to go to.
    d) My biggest regret 3 with my brother on the night before his
    wedding.
    e) I do wish I’d gone with them
    4 maybe life would have been different.
    f) If I had stayed in theatre
    5 I feel I would have been able to help her more.
    g) I wish I’d gone out with her,
    6 because I don’t think I ever will now.
    h) I regret not having learned to swim
    7 when I was a child.
    8 is not knowing my father better.

     For more work on wishes and regrets, turn to page 95 in the Student’s Book.

    After you watch


    4 Answer these questions about the people in the
    programme.
    Who …
    a) upset a lot of people?
    b) has famous friends?
    c) is a very independent woman?
    d) regrets his/her action, but is comfortable with
    the decision he/she took?
    e) misses out on summer fun?
    f) had black hair and olive skin?
    g) had a dominating mother?

    5 Work in groups and do the following.


    a) Rank the regrets from most serious to least
    serious.
    b) Decide which people really regret their
    decisions and which people don’t.
    c) Think of three regrets you have and tell the
    other members of the group.

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