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Level: B2 Upper-Intermediate
Title: Better Safe than Sorry
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Better Safe than Sorry

Category: • General English Topic: • Life Choices Media: • Video

Grammar,
B2 Upper- Learning Listening,
Level: • Intermediate
Grammar: • Wish
Focus: • Speaking,
Vocabulary

Task 1 Watch the video and check off the regrets that people talk about.

1. Not admitting being gay sooner x

2. Serving in the armed forces during 9/11

3. Being locked up when your child was a toddler x

4. Coping with mental problems by yourself for too long x

5. Not telling your mom you love her often enough

6. Being unfaithful to a spouse x

7. Splitting up with someone who’d already been married

8. Having a child with the wrong person x

9. Not keeping in touch with someone you once met x

10. Breaking up with someone and not keeping in touch x

Task 2 Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in the box.
Answer the questions.

love of your life / mental health / come out / military service / get into

1. Do you know anyone who of the closet? Was it difficult for them?

2. Do you think that doing should be mandatory? Why or why not?

3. In what way does our environment affect our ?

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4. Why is it sometimes so easy to relationship with the wrong person?

5. How do you know that someone is the ?

Task 3 Answer the questions about the video.

Why do you think people from the video regret...

1. not coming out soon enough?

2. not being in the military during 9/11?

3. not getting mental help sooner?

4. cheating?

5. being in a relationship with a married man?

6. not meeting the love of their life?

What might have been the consequences of these decisions?

What did they miss out on?

Think of at least two reasons why people might regret these things.

Task 4 First, match the sentences (1–3) with the pictures (A–C). Next,
complete the grammar rules.

A B C

1. I wish you would help me with housework once in a while. I work long hours too you know!

2. I wish we had a bigger house. There’s just not enough space.

3. I wish I had started studying sooner. The exam is tomorrow, and I’m freaking out!

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• We use wish + to talk about something we would like to change

about the past.

• We use wish + to talk about something we would like to be different

about the present.

• We use wish + to express annoyance about something that is or

is not happening or about something that will or will not happen.

Task 5 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.
Then, discuss the statements.

Talk about…

1. an activity you wish you (take up) sooner.

2. someone you wish you (stay) in touch with. Why did you lose touch?

3. something you wish your house/apartment (have) . Why do you

need it?

4. something you wish people (stop) doing in public. Why does

it bother you?

5. three things you wish you (not do) last year.

6. someone you wish (live) closer to you.

7. someone you wish you (not be) so mean to when you were in school.

8. two things you wish you (can change) about yourself.

9. something you got from someone, but wish you (not have) .
Why don’t you like it?

10. something you wish your spouse (start) doing more often.
Why do they have to change?

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GRAMMAR REVIEW

Wish

wish + past perfect

• To talk about something we would like to change about the past

Examples:
I wish I had started learning English sooner. I could be proficient by now!
I wish I hadn’t told him how I truly felt. Now, he’s upset with me.

wish + past simple

• To talk about something we would like to be different about the present

Examples:
I wish we lived by the sea.
I wish we had a garden. At least kids would have some space to play.

wish + would

• To express our annoyance about something that is or is not happening or

about something that will or will not happen

Examples:
I wish you would stop criticizing the way I raise my children.
I wish she would appreciate what she has. All she does is complain about her life.

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NOTES

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