Week 11 – Problems and Advice – Talking About Your Life and Past Experiences

This unit is designed for elementary students who want to talk about their family and describe past events in English. You will learn step by step how to share personal information about your life and understand others when they talk about the past.

You will learn how to use the past simple in positive forms, including regular and irregular verbs. This will help you talk about things that happened before and describe past experiences clearly.

You will build your vocabulary with family-related words, years, and dates, so you can talk about your background and important moments in your life.

We will also practise pronunciation to help you speak more clearly. You will work on:

• /ɪ/ sound
• -ed endings
• Saying past forms clearly

This unit focuses on real-life communication. You will practise how to:

• Talk about your family and past events
• Leave a voicemail message
• Ask for and give information on the phone

You will improve all your English skills:

• Listening: Understand phone conversations
• Reading: Read short biographies
• Speaking: Talk about your past and family
• Writing: Write a short biography

After this unit, you can…

• Talk about your family and background
• Describe past events using simple sentences
• Use regular and irregular past verbs
• Leave and understand simple voicemail messages
• Understand basic information in phone conversations
• Read short texts about people’s lives
• Write a short biography
• Speak more clearly about past experiences