EXERCISES:

A - Express wishes. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate verbs.

1. I wish I __________________ a millionaire.

2. I wish I __________________ a fast car.
3. I wish I __________________ foreign languages.
4. I wish I __________________ a beautiful girl.
5. I wish she __________________ me.
6. I wish we __________________ married.
7. I wish we __________________ two children.
8. I wish we __________________in a big house.
9. I wish I __________________ for a multinational company.
10. I wish we __________________ holidays in tropical countries.

B- Express wishes by writing complete sentences. Use were, had, could, would, etc.

1. I / be / an electronics engineer. ________________________________________________________________

2. She / more people / read / her blog. _____________________________________________________________
3. I / you / answer my messages.__________________________________________________________________
4. My parents / I / go to / university. _______________________________________________________________
5. I / we / meet / more often. ____________________________________________________________________
6. We / you / drive / more carefully. _______________________________________________________________
7. I / you / not take / things / so seriously ___________________________________________________________
8. I / have / more true friends. ____________________________________________________________________

C- Express wishes according to the situations. Follow the example.

1. I need to buy a new computer.

I wish computers weren’t so expensive.( computers / expensive)
2. I love London. I wish _____________________________ (I/go) there more often.
3. The smell of stale cigarette smoke is very unpleasant.
If only _____________________________ (you/ stop) smoking.
4. It was a very beautiful house.
I wish _____________________________ (they / not have) it demolished.
5. She is very short.
She wishes _____________________________(she / be) taller.
6. I don’t understand these exercises.
I wish _____________________________( they/be) easier.
7. We are always arguing.
I wish _____________________________( we / get along).
8. I didn’t go to the party. I wasn’t invited.
I wish _____________________________(they / invite) me.
9. I don’t do much exercise.
I wish _____________________________ (I/ practise) a sport.
10. You never care about what I say.
I wish _____________________________ (you/listen) to me more.
 We didn’t start the fire
By Billy Joel
Harry Truman, Doris Day,
__________________, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, ______________________,
Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, ________________, Sugar Ray,
Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in
the Rye"
Eisenhower, ______________, England's got a
new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
CHORUS: We didn't start the fire
It was always ______________
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't _______________it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the
________________"
__________________, James Dean,
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, _______________________,
Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
_____________________________, "Peyton
Place", trouble in the Suez
Chorus …
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "______________ on
the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle,
___________________________________
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, ________________, Edsel is a
no-go
_____________, Syngman Rhee, payola and
Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the
Congo
Chorus …
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange
Land"
Dylan, _______________, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia",
__________________________________
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, _____________________, British
politician sex
____________________, blown away, what
else do I have to say
Chorus…
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,
_____________________________back again
Moonshot, ______________________,
Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal,
suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets,
__________________, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under
_________________________
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it
anymore
Chorus…