Sharing Personal Experiences- Phrases Practice

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Phrases for sharing your personal experiences speaking

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Sharing personal experiences phrases practice

Talk about your own experiences (one experience, several experiences and/ or general experience) of one of the things below and your partner will guess if it is true or made up (e.g. because you have no experience of that thing).

Appearing on television                                          Attending political speeches

Being drunk                                                                             Being interviewed

Body talk                                                                                  Bullying

Buying insurance                                                                   Communicating with foreign people

Crime                                                                                       Dealing with the police

Dietary supplements                                                Dieting

Having your writings published                              Horse riding

Hospitals                                                                                 Host families

House parties                                                           Hunting

Insomnia                                                                                  Martial arts

Meeting artists                                                          Romance

Sailing                                                                        Side effects of medicines

Smoking                                                                                  Traditional Chinese medicine

Traffic accidents                                                                     Volunteering

Voting                                                                                       Working

 

Useful language for sharing personal experiences

(Just) the other day…/ A couple of weeks ago…

A few years ago,…

A memorable/ typical/ shocking experience I had was…

An experience of this which stands out is…

Generally, I find…

I …. a couple of times and…

I had a bad experience with this.

I have found that…

I have only experienced this once but…

I have personal experience of this.

I once…

I was affected by this when…

I will never forget the time when…

I’d like to share my experience of…

In my (limited/ substantial) experience,…

My first/ last experience of this was…

My own experience of this is…

One day,…

Something (similar) happened to me when…

When I was…

When this happened to me…/ During one of the times this happened to me…

(NOT I have ever… X)

 

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