I WISH

In pairs, work out who might have expressed the following wishes:

I wish I hadn’t cut my ear off. I wish I had not cheated on my wife at the White House. I wish I had married Camilla instead. I wish I hadn’t invaded Russia. If only I hadn’t eaten that apple. If only I hadn’t gone to Dallas. I wish I had not spent 27 years in a South-African prison. I wish I had seen that iceberg. I wish I had not married Prince Charles. I wish I hadn’t flown so close to the sun. I wish I hadn’t held the Spanish Parliament at gunpoint on 23 February 1981. I wish I hadn’t given the order to drop the Atom bomb over Hiroshima. I wish I had not sent the Armada to Britain.

Talk about:

A famous singer you wish you had seen in concert. Something you wish the Town Council did to improve your town. A foreign language you wish you could speak apart from English? Something you wish a member of your family wouldn’t do? Something you wish had never been discovered or invented. A very expensive possession you wish you had. A quality you wish you had. A famous person you wish you could meet. A sport you wish you were very good at. An aspect of your personality you wish you could change. Something you wish people in Spain wouldn’t do? Something you wish you had learnt to do but still can’t do. Something you wish you hadn’t bought. Something you wish you hadn’t done this month. The number of brothers or sisters you wish you had had. When you wish you had been born. A country you wish you had been born in. What you wish Spanish television programmes were like? Something you could say to an important person in politics. The mistakes you made when you were young that you wish you hadn’t made.