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🎒 Schools (S08E28) + Transcript

IELTS Speaking for Success

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Why Did You Go to School?

In Russia, there's three schools. In Scotland, you have primary school and secondary school or primary school and high school. If you're American, then it's like elementary, middle and then high school. So if your school you went to was right next to your house, you can say, I went to a school just up the road from where I lived. Just up the road usually means close but what I said literally is 10 minutes away. We use the second part of the question: Was there anything you wanted to change about your school? The third conditional asks for more time to play in the past so we are thinking unrealistically.

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