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General Objective
You will be able to talk
about bad habits, imaginary
situations and wishes.

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Communication Goals

Imagine That!
You will learn how to
• describe imaginary
situations.
• express wishes.

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CLIL
• Imaginary Situations
• Expressing Wishes
• Breaking Bad Habits
Vocabulary
• Words associated with imaginary situations
Grammar
• Second conditional

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Idioms and Colloquial Expressions
• Cold turkey • Kick the habit
• Fed up • Light at the end of the
• Fidgeting tunnel
• For the time being • Do the trick

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Project
A Survey
You will conduct a survey to
find out what you would do in
several imaginary situations.

Discuss:
• Do you like to dream while awake?
• Do you often imagine you are somewhere else?
• Is there anything you want to change about yourself?
• Do you have any bad habits?

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 Lesson 1

Daydreaming
1. Listen and number (1-5) each picture according to the order you
hear. Then, complete the sentences below using the Word Bank.
c.
a. 1 e.

d.

Word
b.
Bank
• distracting
a. Paul is daydreaming about swimming in the ocean. • daydreaming
b. Sam is Matthew. • dreaming
c. Tim is asleep and about playing football. • fantasizing
• procrastinating
d. Sally is about eating as much chocolate as she can.
e. Linda is because she doesn't like writing reports.
2. Based on the previous exercise, circle the best option that completes each
sentence.
a. If you delay or postpone doing something until later you daydream / imagine / procrastinate.
b. To have thoughts and visions while sleeping is to distract / dream / daydream.
c. If you prevent someone from concentrating, you fantasize / distract / procrastinate him/her.
d. To think about something pleasant while awake is to procrastinate / distract / daydream.
e. If you imagine something that is not likely to happen for real is to fantasize / distract /daydream.

3. Complete the text using words from the previous exercise. Then, listen and
check.

I have an extremely lively imagination. This morning in math class I didn't hear a word my
teacher was saying. Instead I was (a) about what I would do if money
didn't exist. Can you imagine if everything was free? I decided that if money didn't exist, I would
l ol o l . If the hotels were full, I would buy a house for the
night. I didn't let rational thoughts like it wouldn't be possible to buy a house if money didn't exist
(b) me from my fantasy. Actually, as my daydream continued I also started
to (c) about having no physical limits. l o oul o
take planes, trains or cars. If I were able to live without sleeping, I could do and learn so much more.
Daydreaming can be a lot of fun. The only bad thing about being a daydreamer is that I am easily
distracted, which makes me (d) when I should be studying.
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