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.
Social English
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Business English- Describing Your Company and Job- Longer Speaking Games
Talking about your work and who you work for extended speaking activities, including typical questions about your company and job
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.
Conversational reactions - Sentence completion activities
Using and memorising lots of different natural reactions in small talk.
Conversational reactions in small talk review
Reacting to what people say speaking practice through three fun activities, including useful conversation starters and small talk roleplays.
Describing festivals and celebrations practice questions
Speaking practice of telling people about seasonal and special festivals and celebrations from your own and other cultures
Describing foods sentence completion activities
Useful phrases for describing food and drink practice with five stimulating speaking activities, especially useful for socialising with foreign guests.
Greetings mingling game
A fun stand-up card game to practise different greetings when starting and ending conversations.
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.
Moving abroad small talk questions
Chit chat in English when you move overseas preparation and practice, including typical small talk questions.
Networking roleplays, tips and useful phrases
How to make new business contacts speaking, then brainstorming and listening for advice and useful language.
Small talk after not meeting for a while
Typical phrases for chatting after weeks or months without seeing someone, and phrases and key words for getting down to business at the end of the small talk.
Small talk on the news
Suggested questions and topics to chat about the news, good for Social English and current affairs lessons.
Small talk questions with how activities
A big review of questions like "How's it going?" and "How was your holiday?" and typical responses.
Social English Responses- Card Games
How to respond in social situations phrases review, starting with matching three typical answers to common social phrases and continuing with brainstorming and other activities.
Social English rotating revision board game
Fun review of all necessary language for English for social purposes, with students progressing around a board by how well they interact.
Social Language at Conferences and Trade Fairs
How to start, continue and end conversations at trade shows
Socialising in the UK tips and useful phrases
Advice and language for going with British people to pubs, restaurants, etc.
Socialising- prepositions and determiners pairwork
Grammar words in typical phrases for social situations like restaurants and pubs guessing game then brainstorming useful phrases.
Starting conversations with strangers in different ways practice
Using and carrying on from the most useful phrases for starting to talk to someone at the bus stop, at conferences, etc.
Weather Vocabulary and Making & Responding to Invitations
Functional language of invitations and weather words and phrases, including invitations which are suitable for different kinds of weather, and using weather vocabulary to give excuses for turning down invitations.
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