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SECTION 1: UNIT 12: LANGUAGE AND DEVELOPMENT - FANTASY (Down the Rabbit Hole)

Down the Rabbit Hole

Ways with Words

  1. Find the meanings of the following words and phrases from a dictionary and make sentences by using them.
    1. Peep into : to peer, glimpse, or glance in(to something) quickly, shyly, or inconspicuously
      He peeped into the bag and saw that his mother had gotten him a new watch for Dashain.
    2. Pop Down : to go someplace very quickly or briefly that is either on a lower level or is some indeterminate distance away
      I need to pop down to the store for some groceries.
    3. Remarkable : worthy of attention; striking
      You're a truly remarkable person.
    4. Hedge : a fence or boundary formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees
      The garden is hedged by flowering shrubs.
    5. Wonder : a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar.
      I wonder where Hari went. 
    6. Tumble : fall suddenly
      Children tumble over each other in play.
    7. Doze off : to fall asleep especially for a short period of time
      A few students dozed off during the class.
    8. Earnestly: seriously
      I earnestly advised him to cooperate.
    9. Tiny : very small
      The baby gripped my finger with her tiny hand.
    10. Creep : to move slowly, quietly, and carefully
      Don't creep up on me like that!
  2. Match the words below with their opposites. 
    1. beginning             vi. ending
    2. stupid                   iv. clever
    3. natural                   v. artificial
    4. disappointment      i. happiness
    5. ignorant                iii. educated
    6. anxiously               ii. calmly       


Comprehension

  1. Put these sentences in the right order as they happen in the story.
    1. Alice ate a small cake, which said, ‘EAT ME’. 
    2. Alice found a small key and unlocked a very small door. 
    3. Alice fell down a rabbit hole. 
    4. Alice drank something from a bottle and got very small. 
    5. Alice tried to climb a table leg to get the key again. 
    6. Alice saw a White Rabbit and ran after him. 
    1. Alice saw a White Rabbit and ran after him.
    2. Alice fell down a rabbit hole.
    3. Alice found a small key and unlocked a very small door.
    4. Alice drank something from a bottle and got very small.
    5. Alice tried to climb a table leg to get the key again.
    6. Alice ate a small cake, which said, “EAT ME”.


GRAMMAR


Wish 


We use I wish … and If only … when we regret something or when we would like something to be different than the way it is.  

If only means I wish. When talking about other people we use he wishes, they wish, etc. We use if only when we feel something very strongly. Otherwise we use I wish.


I wish/If only + Past Simple (We would like a present situation to be different)

I wish/If only I had a bigger house. (because my house is too small)

I wish you didn't live so far away.
If only we knew what to do.
He wishes he could afford a holiday.


I wish/If only + Would (We want something to happen : To show that we are annoyed with what someone or something does or doesn’t do)

I wish my car would start. (I can’t make it start and I want it to start)

If only you’d listen to me. (We want someone to start doing something they do not do)

I wish you wouldn’t borrow my clothes! (we want someone to stop doing something which annoys us)

If only my mum wouldn’t phone me every five minutes.

I wish you wouldn't borrow my clothes without asking.
I wish it would rain. The garden really needs some water.
She wishes he'd work less. They never spend any time together.


I wish/If only + Past Perfect (Talk about things which we are unhappy about which happened in the past: Something we would like to change about the past)

He wishes he had studied harder when he was at school. (He didn’t study hard enough – perhaps if he had studied harder he would have gone to university.)

They wish they hadn't eaten so much chocolate. They're feeling very sick now.
If only I'd studied harder when I was at school. 

  1. Express your wishes in the following situations in three different ways. Use I wish/If only....... 
    1. You don’t have a mobile phone (You need one).
      I wish mobile phones wouldn’t be today’s requirement.
      I wish I had an iPhone.
      If only my friends had gifted me a phone in my birthday.  
    2. You don’t know the answer of a question from the lesson.
      I wish I knew the answer.
      I wish someone helped me with the answers.
      I wish I had studied before coming to class. 
    3. You can’t play the guitar.
      I wish I joined a guitar class.
      If only I had had a guitar.
      I wish playing guitar wouldn’t be that difficult. 
    4. It’s cold.
      If only I had a quilt.
      I wish the weather wouldn’t have turned cold .
      I wish I hadn’t come to this place without wearing warm clothes.
    5. You are feeling sick.
      I wish I were healthy.
      I wish I would be healthy.
      I wish I had consulted a physician earlier. 
    6. You live in a crowded city.
      I wish I lived in the jungle.
      I wish the government had banned honking in the cities.
      If only this city would be peaceful. 
    7. You feel lonely.
      I wish I had many friends.
      I wish I had built a house in city.
      If only they would befriend me. 
    8. Rewrite the following sentences making correction if necessary.
  1. Original: I wish my father bought me a bike.
  2. Corrected: I wish my father would buy me a bike.

  5. b. Original: I wish I would write poems.
  6. Corrected: I wish I could write poems.

  8. c. Original: I wish I could remember her name.
  9. Corrected: This sentence is already correct.

  11. d. Original: I wish I had a god job.
  12. Corrected: I wish I had a good job.

  14. e. Original: I wish I would be rich.
  15. Corrected: I wish I were rich. 

SPEAKING (p. 117)




  1. Express regrets using I wish/If only and should have /had with past participle based on the following situations. 
    1. Your friend has betrayed you.
      If only he had been loyal to me.
      I wish I had known his intention before.
    2. You have got a cold.
      I wish I had been careful during this worldwide outspread of Coronavirus. 
    3. You are lost in a town.
      I wish I followed a map.
    4. You have lost your phone.
      I wish/If only I had insured it.
    5. You couldn’t attend your brother’s wedding.
      I wish I had resigned this job.

REFERENCES:


https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/wish-and-if-only

https://www.eslbuzz.com/how-to-express-wishes-and-regrets-i-wish-if-only/

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