Have You Ever?
A guided conversation lesson about life experiences using Have you ever...? Practise present-perfect questions and past-simple follow-ups with 18 prompts.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Warm-up and grammar model
- 18 experience prompts with follow-up questions
- Two truths and a fib speaking activity
Practise present perfect questions about life experiences, then switch to past simple questions for details. The one-page A2 lesson includes a warm-up, grammar spotlight, 18 experience prompts and a Two Truths and a Fib finish.
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Before the lesson
Review past participles such as been, eaten, ridden and sung. Model Have you ever…? with Yes, I have / No, I haven't, then When did you…?. Explain that learners may skip sensitive experiences or invent examples for the final game.
- Use the weekend warm-up, then demonstrate the grammar spotlight. Contrast an experience at an unspecified time with a follow-up about a particular past occasion.
- Partners choose experience prompts. After a yes answer, ask when, where and what happened; after a no answer, move to another prompt without requiring a story. Use the spaces to note useful follow-up questions.
- Finish with two true experience sentences and one fib. Partners ask questions and guess the false statement, following the worksheet's final instructions.
Support and extension
For support, start with familiar prompts about travel, food and learning, and display a participle list. For an extension, ask for a longer story with who, feelings and events. There is no fixed answer key. Correct forms selectively so learners retain the experience-versus-details distinction without losing conversational flow.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
