Lesson Plans: Social English
ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Social English' grammar topic.
Business English- Meeting people criteria board game
Moving along a board based on your performance in typical meeting and spending time with people situations, ranked by their partners.
Business English- Meeting People- Line-by-line Brainstorming
Guessing the next line of the meeting people for the first time dialogues games, including useful phrases and meeting people who you've had other contact with practice.
Describing festivals and celebrations practice questions
Speaking practice of telling people about seasonal and special festivals and celebrations from your own and other cultures
Invitations- Coin Games
Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.
Meeting for the first time and again- needs analysis and questions review
Students interview each other with typical small talk questions for new or old contacts - great as a first class, especially in Social English preparation courses.
Meeting People & Meeting People Again
Fun presentation and practice of phrases for meeting people for the very first time and people you already know with a quick reactions game, followed by trying to remember those phrases and thinking of similar language for smoothly ending those chats.
Meeting People- Jigsaw Dialogues and Useful Phrases
Students roleplay first and later meetings at conferences, classify phrases for meeting for the first time and again, put them in order, then test each other on the phrases and situations.
Meeting People- Key Words, Phrases, Dialogues and Topics
A comprensive review of language and tactics for effective meeting for the first time and again, including memorising the most useful phrases, looking at typical confusions, and discussing what topics are good and not in particular situations.
Meeting People- Phrases
Students use and try to memorise typical responses in social situations with people you know and don't know such as how to answer common small talk questions, in four stages.