Worksheet 16: Wishes & regrets
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Name No. Class
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Date / / Teacher
Porto
Read the letter and choose the correct option. Revise:
Student’s Book, pp. 62-
Dear Mum, 63
Workbook, p. 29
I feel really unhappy! I wish I a. didn’t buy / hadn’t bought / wouldn’t buy this old car. If only I b.
had listened / would listen / listen to you before I made the decision to buy it! l wish I c.
wouldn’t ignore / didn’t ignore / hadn’t ignored your advice and had spoken to our mechanic
like you suggested. If only he d. had looked at / would look at / look at it and run a few tests, I
would never have bought it.
Driving an old car with lots of issues is worrying as you probably know: for one thing, I wish it
e. wouldn’t break down / won’t break down / hadn’t broken down all the time and that it f. won’t
be / hadn’t been / wasn’t so expensive to fix it! I also wish my boss g. give / would give / will
give me a raise so that I could try to sell this old pile of junk and buy a new one. If only I h.
would play / played / had played the lottery last weekend and won the jackpot, things would be
so very different! I also wish I i. could go / had gone / went back in time and change that stupid
decision that I made!
Please write soon. I miss you! Love,
Mary
What are these people wishing for? Rewrite their wishes beginning with If only… as in the
example below.
a. I’m late for d. I
school b. I can’t c. I didn’t always
again. see you know forget his e. My parents
today. what to birthday. don’t trust
tell him. me
enough.
f. I can’t g. My back h. No one will
remember
his hurts so help me do j. I didn’t buy
telephon my i. I forgot any milk.
much!
e homework. our date
number. yesterday
.
a. If only I wasn’t / weren’t late for school again.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
