English In Use – I’ll Be Bake

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it’s all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

You know you’re a grown up when…

Driving a car doesn’t always sound like fun. Being bad is no longer cool. You have friends who have kids. Saturday mornings are for sleeping. You are taller than the slide in the McDonald’s play ground. Your parents’ jokes are suddenly funny. Christmas starts to annoy you. You would rather wear your dirty clothes again, […]