Letter To My Younger Self - Wishes and Regrets

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Short overview of the lesson:

  • Watch a short video about meeting your younger self and discuss the social media trend.
  • Read a “Letter to My Younger Self” and notice language for wishes, regrets and imagined pasts.
  • Complete grammar rules for wish + past perfect, should/could have, third conditionals and mixed conditionals.
  • Practise the grammar by choosing correct forms and rewriting simple past situations.
  • Rewrite the same idea in different tones: regret, advice, missed possibility and imagined result.
  • Take part in speaking tasks where students give advice to a younger self.
  • Play Genially activity with character cards, and regret sentences.
  • Write comments under fake social media captions using the target grammar.
  • Complete optional homework by writing a short “Two Timelines” creative text.
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