FEEDBACK AFTER session 12/02/2015

STRUCTURES/ PHRASES

• It really annoys me when...
• It is really infuriating when...
• What makes me...
• The thing that...
• It drives me mad/crazy/up the walls...
• It gets on my nerves
• I can't bear/stand/put up with
• I wish you wouldn't...
• It bothers me that/when
• I can't be bothered

NOTE This is the time to revise last year's file on Annoying Habits
VOCABULARY

• destination versus destiny
• Remember FLAT is an adjective, not a verb: a flatted tyre a flat tyre
• bald
• change lanes
• without indicating
• make of a car
• hearse
• tow truck/towed away
• clamps
• motorway/highway (AmEng)
• warning triangles
• hybrid
• solid/broken line
• roof rack
• trailer
• in neutral/keep it in gear/reverse
• run over/knock over
• crash/bump nto
• car-pool (both verb and noun)
• roundabout
• high-vi vest

DOUBTS

• ON/IN the lane  You say in the lane, definitely not on the lane. When talking about motorways you have several lanes and you drive within one, moving to another to overtake or leave at a junction. You can say in the road or on the road. There are regional preferences - Brits use in more than Americans - and there are also differences in meaning and preferred collocations in some contexts. 
  He is on the road now. (He is travelling)
  He is in the road now. (He is physically in the road)
  There is a fork in the road. (There is a junction or turning)
  There is a fork on the road. (Someone has dropped cutlery here)
• Dent ON/IN???  both are ok  but there is an expression that uses "in" -  "to make a dent in something" (to make significant progress on a project or task) so this is a stronger collocation.