When did you make it?
sentence starters:
this happened...
this took place...
this must have been...
I don't remember exactly when this happened, but it seems to me it was...
As far as I remember it was...
When:
recently
just a while ago
a couple of months ago
in my childhood
when I was a child (a school student, a student)
when I was about 4 or 5
when I studied at school (college, university)
X days (weeks, months, years) ago
just a couple of days (weeks, months) ago
several days (weeks, months) ago
last week (month, year)
yesterday
a long time ago
a long while ago
Where did you make it?
at work
at the airport
at the bank
at my friend's place
at school (college, university)
at home
abroad
at the café or restaurant
on a bench in the park
Who was with you?
my father or mother
my colleagues
some passers-by
some strangers
my friend or friends
a volunteer of X organisation
a public person my mentor
my teacher
my boss
my relative
my grandfather or grandmother
my uncle or aunt
my sister or brother
my cousin
my husband or wife
my boyfriend or girlfriend
my son or daughter
my children
one of my distant relatives
there was nobody around me
How did this mistake affect you?
I became the most popular person at school (in the office building, in the company, in the city)
people started to recognise me wherever I went
people started pointing an accusing finger at me
my friend (or somebody else) got offended with me
my boyfriend didn't want to talk to me for a long time
I felt embarrassed
this situation broke my heart
I got worse results than I could
I lost a lot of money
I wasted a lot of time
Work-related mistakes:
I was fired
I was fined
I nearly lost a job
I didn't get a bonus
I didn't get a promotion
I let down my co-worker
my boss got really angry with me
my boss told me off
I had to stay in the office until I corrected this mistake
ANSWERS
Once I made a really foolish mistake. I had an unpleasant conversation with my boyfriend. I was really angry with him, so no sooner had I said 'Goodbye' to him than I started typing a message to my best friend feverishly because I needed to get it off my chest. Now it's hard to recall what exactly I wrote as this happened a long time ago, but this was something really insulting, something that I wouldn't have written if I had started writing the message several minutes later after I'd let off steam. But it just happened... And I sent this message to my boyfriend by mistake. We texted each other a lot, so I did it automatically. When I realized what had happened, it was too late to do anything.
I was sitting at home shocked and didn't know what to do. Whatever I would have done then would have looked stupid. There was nobody to ask for advice. I called my friend and told her what had happened. We both were puzzled.
Now my boyfriend and I laugh every time we recall that situation, but back then it wasn't fun at all. He got really offended and didn't talk to me for a long time.
Describe a country (or culture) that you want to know more
You should say:
what it is
where it is
how you know about it
why it is interesting
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