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Is there anything you’d like to change in your new


appartment?
I’d like to have a bigger appartment.
Goal : Express wishes, regrets and complaints
Wishes and regrets  I wish + past simple
I wish I had a bigger appartment.
I wish we had the internet at home.
I wish it wasn’t so noisy.
I wish I had a new car.
I wish we had more time and money to travel.

Complaints  I wish + would + verb


I wish the employees wouldn’t talk during work hours.
I wish Colombian people would be more punctual.
I wish politicians would be honest.
My wife wishes I wouldn’t smoke.
I wish Colombian people would be less corrupted.
If only Maduro wouldn’t be like Evo Morales.
Employer
employee
I wish I was more outgoing
I wish I knew what to say to people.
I wish I found it easy to make Friends.
If only I had smaller ears.

Man – handsome
Girl – Cute
Both – Good looking

Shy > outgoing

Your car Works.

Blood  bleed

T/D
To trash = put my gfarbage in the trash can
To litter = put my garbage on the floor (in the Street,
in a park)

Express wishes and regrets about the past.


Wish about present  If only my students studied
more.
Wish about the past  I wish they had studied more.
I wish I we hadn’t taken Rapido Tolima’s bus.
Choose / chose /chosen
I wish we had checked the neighborhood before we
bought our appartment.

Can afford = can pay something


Loan = money that the bank borrows you

Hand in

Slum = very por neighborhood


Safe > sketchy
Go / went / gone

Past perfect = had + past participle

I wish I hadn’t had to go to Ibague.


I wish I had had a blanket in the bus.

I wish I had known it before.

To waste =

Muy mind is blank

Curtains = cortinas

House’s curtains

Close to = near
I hope + will
Crash test

Father, mother, parent


Son, daughter, child
Brother, sister, sibling

I wish my mom’s first son hadn’t died.


Die – dead – death

I wish Medellin wasn’t so polluted.

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