Do you remember what I asked you?

Here are some things that can help jog our memories: 

What do they remind you of?

OCD- Obsessive Compulsive DisorderADD - Attention Deficit Disorder
What do you call a person who always complains about things or is never happy with a situation?

picky = finicky = choosy =captious = whimsical = fussy = fault-finding
We all have whims or manias or eccentricities that seem like 

demandingover-demanding

Here is a look at some wonderful examples of language:

She’s competing with someone for the jobI have problems studying grammarHave you already worked ….What are you living for?What do you do for a living? = What do you do?I was like a self-made womanself-employedentrepreneurmicro-entrepreneurwhat are friends for?I invited them to visit/see/get to know the citydifficult to adaptI’ve been living here for ten months
I began/started to workYou’re married to the same personWhat do you think about your marriage so far? = How do you like your marriage so far?What is your impression of being married so far?

Ask anything about ...

Some words are sometimes confusing when to comes to ...

interviewseventsentrancegirlfriend

What could have been may never be

We probably all know who she is by now. Amalia Damonte, Pope Francisco's childhood sweetheart. 

This leads us to the central topic of our lesson:

What do you remember about your childhood sweetheart?

Some typical answers to such a question:

It was my first heartbreak
It was SUCH a long long time ago = It was CENTURIES ago = It was millennia ago = It was AGES ago

It was nothing serious = It was puppy love = It was a childhood fling.

So what if Amalia had accepted? Would they have gotten married? Would we have a different pope?

The cartoon humorously explores this idea, but only inversely:

SO, how would you complete the sentence below:

If I had ..., I would have ...

On another note, we could also talk about the Pope's social work. 

This takes us back to the purpose of our class: speculating about past events.


If Jorge Mario Bergoglio had not been involved in so much social work, would he have been chosen as the new Pope?

What were the driving factors to him being chosen?