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Regrets

See also:
grammar:
third conditional
 
grammar:
wish - past
 
 
 
 
Worksheets
 
 
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Regrets and past conditionals board game
C1
20-30mins
groups: 3-4
board game
speaking cues
 
Game board with 23 squares. Each contains a prompt for a statement using a past conditional or expressing a regret: If I had / hadn't gone to bed late last night... I wish I'd never... Includes Had I.. But for... If it hadn't been for...
 
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Regrets and past conditionals matching dominoes
C1
20mins
groups: 3-4
 
Twelve matching dominoes illustrating ways of expressing regrets and past conditionals. Includes Had I not...I regret not [doing]...But for...
 
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Quizzes
 
 
Regrets quiz 01
Ten-question MC quiz that practises wish, if only and should have.
 
 

 

Book references
 
 
 
Reward Upper-intermediate Resource Pack book cover 
Reward Upper-intermediate Resource Pack
15a Life would have been different  Page 15 
Ss read statements expressing regrets about the past, find ones they agree with and then mill to find other Ss with the same regrets. Then explain regrets using third conditional.
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon