Case study The Task

Case study

The Task

Start by brainstorming what people usually consider to be the mistakes of their youth (getting married too early? / postponing education? / not being social enough ?/ partying too much?).
Before you watch the video ask the students to imagine the main character is 70 today and looking back at his teenage years depicted in the clip. Is there anything he might regret? They should come up with 7 sentences using wish / if only.
After you’d checked their sentences, you might want to spend some time discussing whether it’s true that people tend to regret the things they didn’t do more than those they did.