This powerpoint presentation can be used as a get-to-know-you or icebreaker activity with a new or existing set of students. It is a great way to learn about your students' likes and dislikes and generates very interesting discussion.Suggestions on how ...
This powerpoint presentation can be used as a get-to-know-you or icebreaker activity with a new or existing set of students. It is a great way to learn about your students' likes and dislikes and generates very interesting discussion.Suggestions on how ...
Beginners conversational worksheet for simple introductions and normal greetings. List of common manners and polite words/phrases and appropiate use. I have also included some helpful conversational openers to encourage beginners to start talking!
Worksheet for beginners to understand the use of 'when' & 'where' questions to get around. Simple exercises of time and place to encourage confidence in asking for help/understanding answers and developing conversational skills. Feel free to change ...
This is a simple page called "This is Me" which will help your students feel free and relaxed to tell, then write about self. The page is good to use during the first lesson with your new students. You may have some follow-up activities based on the in ...
A fun whole class activity for the first day of class! It stirs up conversation and makes your students comfortable with each other. It can also be used as a warmer or filler when you feel the need to get students off their seats and get them talking.I ...
First week of class Lesson Plan: This 2- to 3-hour lesson plan provides your learners with practice in all four skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) as well as Grammar and Vocabulary. It ends with learners writing questions and interviewing ...
Most teachers need their students to introduce themselves to them and to their other classmates especially for their first time and they need to know some information about them, this sheet can help them to introduce themselves in a smooth way and to b ...
This worksheet includes prompt questions to help students play the game 'guess who?'. It is for beginner level. The worksheet includes short questions and descriptions of people. It is to help students to complete a meaningful speaking activity where t ...
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The students will find someone from their class who is best described by the words/phrases in each box. Just like in real bingo, they need to form the pattern (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) for them to be declared as the winner. Make sure that only o ...
Here's a video session on the first episode of New Girl. Listening comprehension activities with pre-watching and after-watching speaking exercises. I recommend using it with ADULTS ONLY since some issues may not be appropriate for teens or children.
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24 general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. This was very useful because the topics are varied and random, containing different structures, so it's good to get people speaking, especially on a first day. You can hand them out to g ...
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Questions and vocabulary about the video. Listening Comprehension, questions students have to answer related with the video and an exercise on the vocabulary used with its defenitions. Students can learn how to introduced themselves, how to ask for som ...
This worksheet contains questions which are not in a correct order - students must make sentences and then they work in pairs and ask each other. It is for beginners - I prepared it for my students ( Face2Face elementary). They liked it, they have pro ...
This is an first-day board game to help students get to know each other and get them talking in English. Lower to mid intermediate level. Played in groups of 3-4. Students flip a coin and move two spaces on heads and one on tails. Must be explained and ...
Worksheet that gets students in a conversation class to mingle with each other. It focuses on things Korean students would find easy to discuss, but can easily be adapted to students from any other country. I used it in my freshmen and sophomore conver ...
I've already used all these activities to teach English either as a second language or as a foreign language and it works great! They are mainly activities to get to know each other. Especially if the group is totally new, where students don't know eac ...
I usually use this exercise as an ice-breaker for the first time teaching upper-intermediate and advanced students. Its a pair work exercise, where each student asks the other one certain questions, and he/she should be taking notes of the answers.In o ...
Self introduction; helps shy students to self evaluate and talk about their physical characteristics without embarassment and shame. Helps to express opinions about others and provides fertile ground for class discussion about social prejudices. Teache ...
This student survey is more for the teacher to get to know his/her students."One thing" category is for students to tell you that one thing about themselves that will help you be a better teacher for them (i.e.: I have sleeping disorder, that's why I'm ...
This is a great piece of lesson - introducing yourself on example of 2 football clubs - Chelsea and Benfica (finalists of Champion League) - could be further extended with the report on football match that takes place on the 15th of May. Have fun!