Discuss major life events, personal situations, and types of behavior
Milestones and turning points;
behavior and personality;
regrets
Describing rites of passage;
describing turning points;
describing regrets and hypothetical situations
Time clauses: before, after, once, the moment, as soon as, until, by the time;
describing regrets and hypothetical situations with should not have + past participle and if clauses + past perfect
Reduction of have and been
Listening to descriptions of important events;
listening to regrets and explanations
Listening to people describe changes in themselves
Writing a letter of apology
“If You Could Do It All Again”: Reading about people’s life choices and regrets
“If things were different”: Imagining different possibilities
for the way things have turned out