language learning center · B1 · Lesson 1
Experiences and growth
Talk about life experiences and explain when a specific event happened.
Understand and learn
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
Maya
Have you ever learned something that changed your daily life?
Maya asks about an experience at any time before now.
Leo
Yes, I’ve learned to cook several Turkish dishes.
Leo connects a past learning experience to the present.
Maya
When did you start?
Maya asks for a specific past time.
Leo
I started during a trip to İzmir two years ago, and I’ve cooked regularly ever since.
Leo moves from a dated event to an ongoing result.
Notice, try, and speak
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
Useful words and phrases
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
Have you ever…?
Ask about experience up to now.
Have you ever learned something that changed your daily life?
I’ve learned to…
Describe a skill gained before now.
Yes, I’ve learned to cook several Turkish dishes.
When did you…?
Ask for a specific past time.
When did you start?
I started… ago.
Date a completed starting point.
I started… ago.
Ever since then…
Connect that experience to the present.
Ever since then…
Notice, try, and speak
Which sentence naturally gives a finished past time?
Make it yours
Describe one experience that has influenced your life and say when it began.
Choose a real skill, journey, friendship, or change and add one present result.
Use it with someone
Exchange meaningful experiences in English
- 1. Have you ever…?
- 2. I’ve learned to…
- 3. When did you…?
- 4. I started… ago.
- 5. Ever since then…