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C1 CEFR

Memorable events
Imagine ...100 years into the future: a museum has been set up to celebrate
your life.
The museum shows a collection of objects and things that you owned. From seeing these things,
visitors will have a sense of the person you were and will learn about the life you lived.

1. You should think carefully about the objects you choose. For each choice, you must
be able to explain why you think it should be in your museum and how it is
significant to you. You should include:
2 things from childhood
3 photographs
2 pieces of music
4 fantasy objects imagine your perfect life.
Try to include some real objects from your life now, but also try to be creative with some fantasy
objects: perhaps you won Olympic medals, wrote bestselling books, became a pop star ...

2. Think about the things that people 100 years into the future will be interested in seeing.
What will they find strange and what will they find familiar about the life you lived?

3. Prepare to give a guided tour of your museum. Write a handout to accompany the
exhibition, explaining the significance of the objects on display. Imagine that the curator of the
museum wrote the handout.

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Suggestions for the museum handout

(Your name) was born in ...

He/She was educated in ... and spent much of his her
early life ...
He/she became interested in ... at the age of ...
He/she met ... while he/she was ...
He/she rose to fame in (year) with (event that made
you famous).
Exhibit 1 shows / illustrates / represents / indicates /
suggests ...
This object was significant to (your name) because ...

You should write in the third person

because the exhibition is 100 years in
the future and you are dead! You
should write about your life using the
past tenses.

4. Now write as yourself, explaining why you would include the objects in your museum and how
visitors would react.

Suggestions for explanation

In the museum I would include ... because ...

Next to that that, there would be ...
The photos that I would choose would be ...
The personal objects could be ...
The most significant thing would be ...
For me the most important thing would be ...
People walking around the museum would ...

Your writing should not be a long and boring

list of objects for each object, you must
explain why it would be in the museum and
how it is significant to your life.
This is a piece of autobiography inform the
reader about your life in an interesting and
entertaining way.