Instructions for teachers
Copy and cut up one set of cards for each group of 2-4 students. Give them just the starting and ending cards (i.e. not those in bold in the middle) to match up to make the shorter phrases. Then give them the middle cards to check their answers and extend the sentences. Check as a class or with un-cut-up copies of the worksheets. Other matches are possible, but there should only be one way to match them all up.
Speaking games
Students deal out the cards and try to use phrases with those words to support their opinions while they debate a topic you give them.
AND/ OR
Get students to choose cards for their partner to use. After the story finishes, they should guess if the personal experience they talked about is true or not.
Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers
| A memorable experience | that/ which | I had is… |
| An experience | I had | which I will always remember… |
| I don’t have much experience of this | at all | , but… |
| I don’t remember | exactly | when, but… |
| I don’t remember this, but | my parents told me that | when I was a toddler… |
| I have | personal | experience of this. In fact… |
| I haven’t experienced this | much | recently but… |
| I must have been | about | 12 years old when… |
| I only have | very | limited experience of this, but… |
| I’ve | generally | found that…. |
| I’ve | only | had good experiences of this. For example,… |
| I’ve got a | good | story about that. One day… |
| In my | limited | experience, it works quite well. |
| My general experience | of this | is that… |
| This has only happened | to me | a couple of times, but… |
| When I was | much | younger,… |
| When I was around seven | years old | , I lived in America with my family for six months. |
| When I was in | the first year of | high school,… |
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Related pages
Sharing personal experiences page
