Recent Experiences
A B2 discussion-writing worksheet with eight prompts about recent experiences. 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 recent experiences
- Reasons, examples and personal experience
- Developed B2 model responses on page 2
Develop eight B2 accounts of recent experiences, including reading a book, getting lost, making a mistake and feeling happy. Each answer needs more than a date: add context, an event and a response.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review When was the last time...? and past-simple time expressions. Explain that recent means different things for different experiences; fictional events are acceptable.
- Choose a straightforward event and note when it happened, what happened and how you responded.
- Write the remaining accounts, adding sequence or background where useful rather than repeating the same sentence pattern.
- Use page 2's possible answers to check concrete detail and revise one short answer into a coherent account.
Support and extension
Offer Last... when... so... as a scaffold. Extend with an optional past-perfect sentence for an earlier event, without forcing that tense everywhere. Illness, anger and fear can remain fictional; this is language practice, not a requirement to disclose private incidents.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
