- Communicative Objective: Learn to express wishes about present and past situations, describe desired changes in other people’s behavior, and communicate hypothetical preferences.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- I wish I had more time to develop my professional skills.
- If only we had known about the problem before it became so serious.
- I wish people would give more thought to the long-term effects of their decisions.
- I would rather work with a smaller team if it meant having clearer responsibilities.
- I would prefer it if we discussed the issue privately before making an announcement.
- Grammar Focus: Wish and if only with past simple and past perfect; wish plus would; would rather; would prefer plus past form.
- Vocabulary Focus: preference, desirable, alternative, reconsider, ideal
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Expressing Wishes and Hypothetical Preferences
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