Big Questions
A B2 discussion-writing worksheet with eight prompts about big questions. Students develop opinions with reasons, examples or personal experience, then compare their work with page 2 model responses.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 8 discussion-writing prompts about big questions
- Reasons, examples and personal experience
- Developed B2 model responses on page 2
Use eight B2 Do you ever...? prompts to develop reflections on meaning, luck, jealousy, regret, worry, gratitude and mistaken purchases.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review ever, occasionally and hypothetical would forms. Allow fictional examples and make emotionally personal responses optional.
- Answer a low-pressure prompt such as a regretted purchase, adding when it happened and why the view changed.
- Develop selected reflections with a clear idea and support, distinguishing habits from an imagined second chance at life.
- Use page 2's possible answers to revise a vague response with a concrete example or a qualification.
Support and extension
For support, use Sometimes... especially when.... Extend by contrasting something a character can control with something uncertain. Avoid turning the lesson into counselling or requiring confession; the aim is coherent writing, not agreement with the models' outlook.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
