Friday - Expressing Desires and Preferences.pptx

English A1

Expressing desires and preferences

What would you cook today?

I prefer to buy pizza

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.

Class schedule

01

Warm-up

I would like to read many books

02

Grammar

I prefer to watch tv

03

Contextualization

04

Development

05

Practice

06

Wrap up

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.

Grammar

Modal Verb: Would /wud/

ría

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

For example:

I travel (yo viajo)

I would travel (yo viajaría)

I would understand (yo entendería)

I understand (yo entiendo)

I sing (yo canto)

I would sing (yo cantaría)

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

I wouldn't travel (yo no viajaría)

I wouldn't understand (yo no entendería)

Would forms

Grammar

Modal Verb: Would

Used to talk about the future, desires or hypotheses.

Grammar

Using "I prefer"

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

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?

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.

Contextualization

Using "would" to express desires and hypothesis

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

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

For example:

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

Watch the following video and answer the questions:

Contextualization

When use "I prefer"

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

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

She prefers to speak

He prefers to swim

She prefers to sing

He prefers to play

She prefers to travel

Development

Would and wouldn't

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

What do you prefer?

Spin the wheel and answer the question using "prefer"

Example:

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

Practice

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.

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.

Examples:

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

I would like some cookies with milk

I prefer traveling to studying

Would

Subject + would + V + Complement

• He would understand the class
• She would travel tomorrow

Subject + wouldn't + V + Complement

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

Would + subject + V + C omplement + ?

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

Prefer

USE: Expressing preferences

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

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

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

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

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

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