Grammar & Communication: The Past Simple – talking about finished events and reminiscences
Student A: What was your favourite decade?
Student B: My favourite decade was the 60s.
Student A: What would you like to talk about:
[ Choose THREE topics ]
Student B: Myself, music and politics.
Student A: O.K. What happened to you in the 60s?
Student B: I fell in love for the first time in my life.
Student A: Did you stay together?
Student B: No, we didn't. She left me.
Student A: That's a pity! What happened in music in the 60s?
Student B: Many pop groups from Liverpool became very famous. The Beatles had many hit records: She Loves You, Yesterday, etc.
Student A: They were great hits! What happened in politics in the 60s?
Student B: At the beginning of the 60s, John F. Kennedy became President of the United States, but he died in 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald shot him. Someone also shot his brother, Robert Kennedy, in 1968 and someone also shot Martin Luther King, the black civil rights leader. At the end of the 60s, the war in Vietnam became very bad. Many people died. Nixon became President and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
Use the same dialogue to talk about your favourite decade, but change the information!