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REAL ENGLISH Do you mean...?
A. (🎧3-11) Listen and read. Then repeat the conversation and replace the words in blue.
B. Practice with a partner. Replace any words to make your own conversation.
1. see through walls - travel back in time
Do you ever wish you had a superpower?
Do you mean like being able to fly?
2. make myself invisible - predict the future
Yeah, what do you wish you could do?
I wish I could breathe underwater.
3. like - wish for
What power would you want?
I'd want to control people's minds.
4. everyone do what I say - people do my chores
Why?
If I could do that, I could make all my teachers give me A's!
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| TALKING ABOUT WISHES AND IMAGINARY SITUATIONS (P. 161) |
| I wish I were rich and famous. I wish I didn't have so much homework. I wish I could speak every language well. |
| If you were rich, would you use the money to travel? | Yes, I would. I'd use it to go to Antarctica. No, I wouldn't. I'd use it to help people. |
| If you could have any superpower, what power would you want to have? | I'd want to be able to fly. |
| Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world? | I'd go to Australia and New Zealand. |
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C. (🎧3-13 Complete the conversations. Use the correct forms of the words in parentheses. Then listen and check your answers.
1. Kay: What would you do if you (1) _______(be) rich?
Hugh: I (2) _______ (buy) a house for my parents.
2. Alfred: If you (3) _______ (can have) any superpower, what superpower (4) _______ you _______ (want)?
Sandy: I think I'd want to be able to read people's minds.
3. Erin: If you (5) _______ (can live) forever, would you be happy?
Roger: No way. I (6) _______ (not want) that.
4. Trevor: If you (7) _______ (not have to) go to school, how different would your life be?
Nancy: It (8) _______ (not be) different at all. I'd still go to school.
D. Complete the sentences. Use the correct forms of the phrases in the box.
| be taller be more hours in a day can go back in time be so hard have so many words put in more effort |
1. I wish I __could go back in time__. It would be interesting to meet Abraham Lincoln.
2. I'm too short to join the basketball team. I wish I ______________________.
3. I never have enough time to see my friends. I wish there ______________________.
4. I wish English (not) ______________________. I can't remember them all!
5. I have been working on this math problem for 5 hours. I wish it (not) ______________________.
6. Climate change is a real problem. I wish people ______________________ to find a solution.
E. Work in a group. Imagine you had three wishes. What are they? Share your wishes with your group members.
I wish I could talk to animals.
Why?
I'd like to know what they think of us.
