When do people use these expressions?
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Sweet 16
- a boy's special 16th birthday, which suggests he is a young man and no longer a child
- a girl's special 16th birthday, which suggests she is a young lady and no longer a child
- Both A and B are correct
turning point
- to descibe a driver turning at the end of the road
- the time when a person looks back to his/her past
- the time when an important change starts to happen
"going back to school" E.g. I'm thinking of going back to school.
- returning to a college or university after having stopped studying or after graduating
- returning to school because a person left something there
- returning to school to ask teachers for extra help
I should have . . . ./I shouldn't have . . . .
- used in describing regrets about the past
- used in describing hypothetical situations
- used in describing yourself in the past
major in
- to describe a major problem in something
- to describe something important
- to study something as your main subject at a college or university
If I had . . . , I wouldn't be . . . .
- used in describing regrets about the past
- used in describing hypothetical situations
- used in describing yourself in the past
"I know what you mean"
- said in order to clarify what the person had said
- said in order to show that you understand someone
- said in order to show that you have paid attention to the speaker