Purpose:

To practice saying years; for higher-level learners practice asking questions and work with past simple tense

Preparation time: 

None

Materials: 

Paper or whiteboard

Preparation:

Write four important years in your life.

Procedure:

1. Tell learners that important events in your life happened during each of these years. Their task is to find out what the events were. Higher-level learners can do this by asking questions. “Were you born in 1959?” Lower-level learners may give one-word guesses, but also must tell you the year to which they are referring.
2. After you have modeled the activity, the learners should write down important years for them and do the activity. If you have more than five learners, you may want to break them up into pairs or small groups.

Variations:

Do the same activity but with any important numbers in your life. This removes the past tense element.