Magazine Covers: Get to Know You
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...
View ArticleGreetings, Manners and Conversation
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...
View ArticleGetting Around: Questions
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...
View ArticleProfile Page Template: This is Me
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...
View ArticleBalloon Guessing Game As Getting-To-Know-You Whole Class Fun Activity
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...
View ArticleFirst Week Get-to-Know-You Lesson Plan
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...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself!
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...
View ArticleGuess Who Questions
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...
View ArticleHuman Bingo [Find Someone Who Can...]
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...
View ArticleVideo Worksheet: New Girl Pilot Episode
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...
View Article24 Question Cards [General Questions]
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,...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Mind Your Language S01E1 [Part One] - The First Lesson
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...
View ArticleRevision Questions for Beginners
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 (...
View ArticleIntroductory Board Game for Intermediate Level
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...
View ArticleFind Someone Who (for Korean students)
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...
View ArticleIcebreakers
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...
View ArticleGetting to Know You!
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,...
View ArticleThis is Me
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...
View ArticleGet to Know Your Students - Student Survey
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...
View ArticleFootball, Introducing Yourself
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...
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