- Communicative Objective: Learn to express regret, criticize past decisions constructively, and explain what should, could, or might have been done differently.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- I should have checked the details more carefully before agreeing to the arrangement.
- They could have avoided the confusion by communicating the changes earlier.
- You might have mentioned that the schedule had already been revised.
- I wish we had considered the long-term consequences before making the decision.
- If the risks had been explained properly, we might have chosen another option.
- Grammar Focus: Modal perfect forms with should have, could have, and might have; wish plus past perfect; third conditional.
- Vocabulary Focus: regret, criticize, oversight, consequence, reconsider
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Expressing Regret, Criticism, and Alternative Past Actions
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