SPEAKING

Work in pairs and ask each other these questions (1-5) from the boxes below about when
you were a child. Go to the breakout rooms for the next 3 minutes! Come back and share
with the others!
You do not have to write your answers!

2. When you were a child did you play an

1.When you were a child did you have a instrument?
favourite song or group/band? What was If the answer is NO, what is the reason?
it? If the answer is YES, which instrument
was?

3. When you were a child did you have 4. When you were a child did you use to
music class at school? Did you enjoy it? sing? What songs?
If the answer is NO, what is the reason? Name at least 1. It doesn’t have to be an
If the answer is YES, why? English song.

5. When you were a child did your

mother or father sing to you?
What songs?

USEFUL LANGUAGE

When I was a child I had a favourite song/group/band...

I used to play...OR I didn’t use to play....because.....
Music was/wasn’t one of my favourite subjects because...
I loved singing because...
I remember singing....
My mother/father used to sing to me, and one of the songs was....

Adapted from the Global Pre-Intermediate coursebook