I Wish I Could Fly

 Look at the picture!

what do you see? Yes it is a man with a pair of wings. What are you going to do if only you had wings? 

 
what about this!

Do you know him? Yes, he is Barrack Obama the President of United States of America. If only the President of United States were you, can you tell me how your feeling and your policy for USA and international relationship?

I wish I had wings
I wish I were a president etc. 
Those are some example of expressing a wish, there are some expression using wish. And you should know each of them. So you can express or understand 'wish' expression better. Yes, Today we are going to discuss "expressing a wish or regret. Learn this material!!!

Expressing a wish or a regret

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Use of I wish / if only:

There are three distinct types of  I wish / if only  sentences:

1. Wish, wanting change for the present or future with the simple past.
2. Regret with the past perfect.
3. Complaints with would + verb.

Expressing a wish:

Form:

If only / I wish + simple past

Example:

If only I knew how to use a computer. (I don’t know how to use a computer and I would like to learn how to use it)

Use:

• To express a wish in the present or in the future.
• The simple past here is an unreal past.
• When you use the verb to be the form is “were”.
  Example:
  I wish I were a millionaire!

Expressing regret:

Form:

If only / I wish + past perfect

Example:

If only I had woken up early. (I didn’t wake up early and I missed my bus.)

Use:

• To express a regret.
• The action is past.

Complaining:

Form:

I wish / if only + would + verb

Example:

I wish you wouldn't arrive so late all the time (I'm annoyed because you always come late and I want you to arrive on time)

Use:

• To complain about a behaviour that you disapprove.
• Expressing impatience, annoyance or dissatisfaction with a present action.

Listening

Listen this song carefully!


Fulfill the uncomplete lyric below!

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue (1) ...... from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a (2)......?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to (3).......
Your (4)....... for ghosts?
Hot (5)..... for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for (6).......?
And did you exchange
A (7)...... part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you (8).... here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish (9)......,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old (10).....
Wish you were here.

Speaking 

Read carefully following dialogue:
Dialogue 1

• Leliana: It must be a wonderful thing, to be able to weave spells.
• Wynne: Wonderful? To you, perhaps. Most do not feel the same way
• Leliana: Oh, what do they know? They are just jealous. I wish I had such talent.
• Wynne: Oh, but you do. You have your music, your dancing. You are more graceful than anyone I've ever met.
• Leliana: I never thought of it that way. 

Exercise 2
 Answer the questions!
1. Can Leliana weave spells?
2. Is Leliana a Sorcere?
3. Mention the talents Leliana have?
4. Did leliana thought she are more gracefull than anyone?
5. What kind of talent does Leliana want to?

Exercise 3
Make a short dialogue using expression a wish or regret given. Practice the dialogue!

Reading

Read the passage below carefully!

        As my father approached his death, we were leaning on the car one day talking, when he looked at me with a deep, piercing set of gentle eyes and said that “I wish I had realized sooner that life is not about working hard and long enough to buy things.” The angst filling his eyes suggested that he deeply felt the finitude of choices he had made as well as the regret that he had not chosen differently. I looked into his eyes and wondered if it was his way of saying he wished he had spent more time with me. I decided it was his way of making peace with some regrets. I smiled and said “we do the best we can.” He nodded and seemed to relax. Nothing more was said.

Exercise 4

Answer the questions!

11      What did they do when his father approached his death?

12     Why did his father regret his life?

33     When happened when he looked into his father’s eyes?

44    What did he say to his father?

55    What can we learn from the passage above?

Writing

Exercise 5

Supply appropriate completion in the following.

Example: My house doesn’t have any windows. I wish my house had  windows.

1   1     I didn’t go shopping. I wish I ……shopping.

2   2     It’s cold today, I’m not wearing a coat. I wish I ……. A coat.

3   3    I can’t go with you. I wish I …. With you tomorrow.

4   4      I don’t have enough money to buy a car. I wish I …. Enough money.

5   5     You can’t meet my parents. I wish you …….. them.

Exercise 6

Supply an appropriate auxiliary in the following.

Example: I don’t know her, but I wish I did

1      1. I can’t sing well, but I wish I …..

2      2. He won’t talk about it, but I wish he ……

3     3. I want to go, but I can’t. I wish I …….

4     4. I didn’t read that book, but I wish I …….

5     5. They didn’t go to the movie, but they wish they ….

6     6. I don’t have a bicycle, but I wish I …….

7     7. It probably won’t happen, but I wish it ….

8     8. I don’t have driver’s license, but I wish I …..  
    9.  I’m not living in an apartment, but I wish I ….

    10.  She can’t speak English, but she wish she …..

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