P3 - W4 - Natural disaster - Les 2

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Natural Disasters

Reading

What natural disaster is this?

What natural disaster is this?

What natural disaster is this?

What natural disaster is this?

What natural disaster is this?

Reading

Read the text

Answer the questions

Read the text & answer questions

https://www.softschools.com/language_arts/reading_comprehension/science/455/natural_disasters/ 

Wish, complaint, regret

A. Expressing a wish, a complaint or a regret  

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

1. Wish, wanting change for the present or future  

2. Regret 

3. Complaints

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           (had + voltooid deelwoord)

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. 

topic set - weather

tornado = tornado

hurricane = orkaan, cycloon

tropical storm = tropische storm , bij voorbeeld tyfoon

boiling hot = bloedheet

forecast = voorspelling

freezing cold = ijkoud

poured = gieten (regen)

drought= droogte

damp, humid = vochtig (klam)