If you could have lived in another time
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 4, "Pros and Cons."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity practices using past modals to hypothesize about living in a different time.
- Explain the activity: Students work in pairs to discuss which time (e.g., a century, a decade) they would have liked to live in. Go over the following questions and write them on the board; then elicit additional questions from the class and add them:
- Which century or decade would you have liked to live in?
- In what country would you have chosen to be born?
- What kinds of things would you have done as a child?
- What types of clothes would you have worn?
- What would your family have been like?
- Students talk about the questions. Set a time limit of ten minutes. Go around and give help as needed.
- Ask for volunteers to report to the class what their partners said about living in another time.
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