Module 5: Entertainment

Summary: Let’s Watch a Film!

Key points

  • Types of films: comedy, action, horror, science fiction, cartoon, romance.
  • Film words: hero, creature, shark, fish tank, to come across, to be taken away, to run away.
  • We express regret about something that happened or that we did.
  • Answer an apology with Never mind / Don’t worry / It doesn’t matter.
  • A biography tells the life of a person in the past simple, with dates.

Rules to remember

I’m so / very sorry (that)
+ clause: I’m so sorry that I broke your glasses.
I regret + noun
I regret my decision.
I regret + verb-ing
For a past action: I regret shouting at him. Negative: I regret not listening.

How to do it

  1. Find the past action you are sorry about.
  2. Use I’m sorry that + past simple, or I regret + verb-ing.
  3. If you didn’t do it, use I regret not + verb-ing.

Example

Tiny didn’t listen to her grandmother. Now she says: “I regret not listening to Grandma.”

Common mistakes

  • I regret to miss the film yesterday. ✗ — I regret missing the film. ✓
  • I regret don’t listening. ✗ — I regret not listening. ✓

Key words

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