TEACHER’S NOTES

Situations: wish
by Jill Hadfield

Level: Upper Intermediate / Advanced

3. Your son is taking French at school. You think
FUN WITH GRAMMAR TEACHER’S NOTES

Target age: Secondary / Adult Spanish is more useful.

Time needed: 20 minutes I wish you would learn Spanish.

Grammar objective: to practise I wish I had / 4. You hate your job and keep on applying for
I could / you would different jobs – with no success.
Materials: one copy of the speech bubbles, I wish I could get a better job.
one copy of the situations list
Summary: This is an accuracy-based team 5. You are about to retire – but your pension is not
game to practise I wish I had …, I wish I could very big.
…, I wish you would … . I wish I had got a better job.

6. Your girlfriend moans about her job – but she
Procedure doesn’t do anything about applying for
another one.
1. Cut up the speech bubbles in preparation for the
lesson. Stick them randomly all over the board. I wish you would get a better job.

2. Divide the students into two teams and ask them 7. A few years ago your boyfriend asked you to
to form two lines facing the board. marry him – but you refused. Now you regret it!
I wish I had married him.
3. Say to the students that you are going to read
out a situation. They should listen and read the 8. You have a crush on Robert Pattinson.
wishes on the board. They should then decide
which of the wishes they would make in I wish I could marry him.
that situation.
9. Your daughter has a really lovely boyfriend.
4. The first student in each team should try to be the I wish you would marry him.
first to grab the appropriate wish.
10. You are very tired this morning.
5. Read out the first situation from the list: You are in
I wish I had gone to bed earlier.
a restaurant in Madrid. You can’t understand
the menu. 11. You have a lot of work to do in the evenings so
always get to bed late.
6. The students should try to grab the bubble that
reads I wish I had learnt Spanish. I wish I could go to bed earlier.

7. They then go to the back of the line and it is the 12. Your flatmate stays up late playing loud music
turn of the next two students. after you have gone to bed.
I wish you would go to bed earlier.
8. The team with most bubbles at the end wins.

Key:

1. You are in a restaurant in Madrid. You can’t

understand the menu.
I wish I had learned Spanish.

2. You want to learn Spanish but the college only

offers evening classes in French.
I wish I could learn Spanish.
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Situations: wish
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I wish I had learned Spanish.

I wish I could learn Spanish.

I wish you would learn Spanish.

I wish I could get a better job.

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Situations: wish
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I wish I had got a better job

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I wish you would get a better job.

I wish I had married him.

I wish I could marry him.

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Situations: wish
by Jill Hadfield
FUN WITH GRAMMAR CUT-OUTS

I wish you would marry him.

I wish I had gone to bed earlier.

I wish I could go to bed earlier.

I wish you would go to bed earlier.

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Title
Situations: wish
Author
by Jill Hadfield
SUBJECT
FUN WITH TITLE

1. You are in a restaurant in Madrid. You can’t understand the menu.

2. You want to learn Spanish but the college only offers evening classes in French.

3. Your son is taking French at school. You think Spanish is more useful.

4. You hate your job and keep on applying for different jobs – with no success.
GRAMMAR SITUATIONS

5. You are about to retire – but your pension is not very big.

6. Your girlfriend moans about her job – but she doesn’t do anything about
applying for another one.

7. A few years ago your boyfriend asked you to marry him – but you refused. Now
you regret it!

8. You have a crush on Robert Pattinson.

9. Your daughter has a really lovely boyfriend.

10. You are very tired this morning.

11. You have a lot of work to do in the evenings so always get to bed late.

12. Your flatmate stays up late playing loud music after you have gone to bed.
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