Life regrets
upper intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
-
To provide accuracy speaking practice in a Conversation in the context of life
Subsidiary Aims
-
To provide clarification of expressing past regrets in the context of life
Procedure
There are few related photos which the students will make connect between. For example a photo of a crying boy, homeless man, a photo of someone who is in a state of regret another photo attached to it which represents broken marriage and leaving a child behind after a divorce . The students will be asked to talk about this persons regret.
Read the text about regrets we might have had. The teacher asks oral questions about it to elicit the purpose of the article. True or False On avarage people spend 44 min. a week thinking what they could or should do differently. They mostly regret about where they should have spent their holidays. Half of the people believed that they had learnt from their mistakes. One of the most comnon regret is not getting on the property ladder.
Students are paired and asked to talk to their peers about their own their own regrets. Can you spot your own regret that is common in the text to all? Or Do you have different regrets ? If so what ....