Friday - Expressing Desires and Preferences.pptx

I prefer to buy pizza

What would you cook today?

Friday (week 9) - English A1

Expressing desires and preferences

Class goals

• Identify basic grammatical structures for desires (would), and preferences (“prefer”).

• Learn how to use “would” to create hypotheses and talk about desires.

• Learn to use “I prefer” to talk about your preferences.

I would like to read many books

I prefer to watch tv

Wrap up

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Class schedule

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Practice

Development

Contextualization

Grammar

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Warm-up

Click on the image and participate in the following Kahoot. Look at the images and choose the verb that most closely relates to it.

Warm up

I wouldn't understand (yo no entendería)

I wouldn't travel (yo no viajaría)

We also use “Would Not” (wouldn't) to express negation. For example:

Would forms

I would sing (yo cantaría)

I sing (yo canto)

I would understand (yo entendería)

I understand (yo entiendo)

I would travel (yo viajaría)

I travel (yo viajo)

For example:

ría

The modal verb would, modifies the main verb by adding what would be “ría” in Spanish.

Modal Verb: Would /wud/

Grammar

Used to talk about the future, desires or hypotheses.

Modal Verb: Would

Grammar

2. Hi Bruno! I prefer pizza to burguer. 3. Do you prefer action movies or horror movies? 6. I prefer singing to traveling. 7. Do you prefer playing videogames or swiming in the pool? 10. I prefer buying to cooking a hot dog.

1. Hello Glinda! Do you prefer pizza or burger? 4. I prefer horror movies to action movies. 5. Do you prefer traveling or singing?? 8. I prefer swimming in the pool to playing videogames. 9. Do you prefer cooking or to buying a hot dog?

Expressing preference. We use prefer to say we like one thing or activity more than another. The following is an example dialog:

Using "I prefer"

Grammar

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

If + subject + Verb in past form + subject + would + infinitive verb

If I had more money, I would buy a new car. If she did my homework, she would travel tomorrow.

For example:

To express hypothesiss we must follow the following rule:

I would like to buy a new car. she would like to travel the next week. We would like to play videogames They would like to cook a cake. My father would like to speak English.

To express desires we use “would like” (me gustaría). For example:

Using "would" to express desires and hypothesis

Contextualization

She prefers to sing

She prefers to travel

He prefers to play

He prefers to swim

She prefers to speak

Let's see some examples: (click on the pictures)

We use “prefer” when we want to express preference of something.

When use "I prefer"

Contextualization

Now click here and play the matching game. Listen to the audios and match them with the correct answer Using “Would” and “Wouldn't”.

Development

Would and wouldn't

Question: Do you prefer to speak Russian or Japanese. Answer 1: I prefer speaking Russian to Japanese. Answer 2: I prefer to speak Russian to Japanese

Example:

What do you prefer?

Spin the wheel and answer the question using "prefer"

Development

Click on the frog. Then, play the game and answer the questions correctly.Don't forget to take a screenshot of your score and share it.

Practice

I would like some cookies with milk

If I had more money, I would buy a new car

I prefer traveling to studying

Examples:

Wrap up

Use the following verbs to create a sentence that represents a hypothesis, one that represents a desire, and one that represents a preference. write both sentences in the link below, listen to the pronunciation and then share them with the class.

• Would he understand the class?
• Would she travel tomorrow?

Would + subject + V + C omplement + ?

• He wouldn't understand the class
• She wouldn't travel tomorrow

Subject + wouldn't + V + Complement

• He would understand the class
• She would travel tomorrow

Subject + would + V + Complement

Would

• Do you prefer reading a book?
• Do you prefer to read a book?

Do + subject + prefer + V-ing / to-V + C + ?

• You don't prefer reading a book
• You don't prefer to read a book

Subject + don't + prefer + V-ing / to-V + C

• You prefer reading a book
• You prefer to read a book

Subject + prefer + V-ing / to-V + C

Prefer

USE: Expressing preferences