🚪 The Roads Not Taken
Students read five original personal stories about life-changing decisions: Elena who turned down a music scholarship in Vienna, Daisuke who inherited a failing business in Osaka, Amara whose startup failed before succeeding in Nairobi, Marco who missed a coffee chain investment in Milan, and Signe who left law to become a ceramicist in Bergen. Wish and if only structures (present, past, and would) are embedded naturally throughout each story. The interactive game presents 10 situations where students choose the correct wish form, while the writing task asks them to reflect on their own decisions.
Lesson Plan
- 3 warm-up questions about decisions and regrets
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Wish + past simple: I wish I lived near the sea (present regret)
- Wish + past perfect: I wish I had studied harder (past regret)
- Wish + would: I wish he would stop (annoyance about others)
- Wish + could: I wish I could fly (ability)
- If only = stronger, more emotional version of wish
- Were (not was) after wish in formal English
