Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 3

Unit 8 Lesson C: If I were you, . . .

Vocabulary
School and university
get accepted to (grad school)
get into (grad school)
get a (full) scholarship
major in (economics)

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Conversation strategies
Giving advice
You can use these expressions to give advice:

If I were you, I'd . . .

If I were you, I'd take the scholarship.

I would / I'd . . .
I'd take the scholarship.

I wouldn't . . .
I wouldn't worry about that.

You might want to . . .

You might want to go there and meet some of the professors.

You could . . .
You could go there and meet some of the professors.

That would be . . .
You can use That would be . . . or That'd be . . . to comment on a suggestion or a possibility:
A I might go to Bracken next year.
B Really? That would be awesome!
A You might want to go there and meet some of the professors.
B That'd be good.
Cambridge University Press 2014

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