Wishes I wish I could find a job. Has he got a job now? Does he want to find a job? So, what is he saying? wish + past simple (present)

Wishes• I wish I could find a job.• Has he got a job now?• Does he want to find a job?• So, what is he saying?

• wish + past simple (present)

I wish I hadn’t parked my car here.

• He has been given a parking ticket because he parked his car in a no-parking area.

• So, what is he saying?

• wish + past perfect (past)

I wish my son would stop interrupting me.

• The woman is trying to work but her son keeps interrupting her.

• So, what is she saying?

• Is the woman in the picture annoyed by her son behaviour?

• Does she want her son to change his behaviour?

a) I wish you would tidy your room.b) I wish it would stop raining.

a)Are we giving a polite order?b)Do we want the rain to stop? Are we expressing a wish for a change in a situation?

Wish + would polite imperative change in a situation/sb’s behaviour

I wish / If only I were rich.I wish / If only I was rich.

• Is there a difference in meaning between these two sentences?

• We can use the expressions if only instead the verb wish. (If only is more emphatic than I wish).

• We can use were instead of was in the third and first person singular after wish and if only.

I wish I could drive a car.I wish we could go on holiday this summer.

We can use ‘could’ instead of ‘would’ after the subject pronouns I and we.

Say what you wish you had or could do.

• a bike

• speak Italian

• computer games

• travel abroad

• skis

• my own room