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PRACTICE Wishes and Regrets

This document contains examples of wishes and regrets organized into different categories: 1. Present situations - Examples of present wishes like wanting longer days or wanting to win a match. 2. Past situations - Examples of regrets about the past like wishing more people had come to a party or wishing an illness hadn't occurred. 3. Annoying behaviors - Examples of wishes to change annoying present behaviors like stopping constant requests for money or loud music. 4. Transforming sentences - Examples are given of transforming sentences about past events or behaviors into wishes about how things could have been different. 5. Writing new wishes - Prompts are given to write new wishes using your own words about

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PRACTICE Wishes and Regrets

This document contains examples of wishes and regrets organized into different categories: 1. Present situations - Examples of present wishes like wanting longer days or wanting to win a match. 2. Past situations - Examples of regrets about the past like wishing more people had come to a party or wishing an illness hadn't occurred. 3. Annoying behaviors - Examples of wishes to change annoying present behaviors like stopping constant requests for money or loud music. 4. Transforming sentences - Examples are given of transforming sentences about past events or behaviors into wishes about how things could have been different. 5. Writing new wishes - Prompts are given to write new wishes using your own words about

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Name: Bryan Llulluna

WISHES AND REGRETS

Wanting to change the present

PRESENT SITUATIONS
Days are so short in winter I wish days were longer
She’s sorry she never wins a match She wishes she won a single match
He works very little I wish he worked harder

Regretting the past

PAST SITUATION
Very few people came to my party I wish more people had come
John failed his driving test Tom wishes he had passed his driving test
I got ill after eating lobster I wish I hadn’t eaten lobster

Complaining

ANNOYING BEHAVIOUR
You’re always asking for money! I wish you wouldn’t ask for money all the time
Stop playing the music so loud! I wish you wouldn’t play the music so loud
The students never pay attention to the teacher He wishes they would listen to him

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TRANSFORM THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:

1.- I lent John my tennis racket and he broke I wish there wouldn’t been a strike at the
it airport
I wish I John wouldn’t break my tennis
racket. 9.- All my friends are on the beach
I wish I was with my friends on the
2.- He is always breaking my things beach
I wish he wouldn’t break my things.
10.- He is telling stupid jokes all the time
3.- Tom can’t speak French Everybody wishes he wouldn’t tell stupid
He wishes he could speak French jokes all the time

4.- I don’t like the town where I live 11.- Susan has very little free time
I wish I liked the town where I live She wishes she wishes she had more
free time
5.- Her husband never eats what she cooks
She wishes her husband would eats what 12.- Everybody saw him fall down in the
she cooks middle
of the street
6.- I got sunburnt because I didn’t use He wishes no one would saw him fall
sun cream down in the middle of the street
I wish I had used sun cream
13.- She never locked her car and it was
7.- Mary’s wedding was a disaster because it robbed
rained torrentially She wishes she had locked her car.
She wished it wouldn’t rain torrentially
14.- TV programmers are always the same
8.- The plane was delayed because there was People wish TV programmers wouldn´t
a be the same.
strike at the airport
15.- I forgot to water the plants and they I wish I hadn´t forgotten to water the
died plants.

WRITE WISHES FOR THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING YOUR OWN WORDS:

1. Why do you always wear such horrible clothes? I wish you worn such

clothes.

2. Nobody told me you were ill. I wish someone would tell me you

were ill.

3. Tom didn’t buy her a present. He was embarrassed.

Tom wished he had bought her a present

4. She’s sad because she lives alone. She wishes she didn’t live alone

5. My stomach hurts. I ate too much. I wish hadn’t eat too much

6. What a pity I can’t speak English! I wish I could speak English.

7. I read less than I’d like. I wish I read more.

8. He’d like to give up smoking but he can. He wishes he could give up

smoking.

9. I get up very early. I hate it. I wish I didn’t get up very early

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