Since the first lesson of the school year is really important, Busy Teacher has collected 190 worksheets to help you get it just right. There are also links for a number of related articles that are full of good lesson ideas and fun warmers that you can use to make your first class even more fun. There are 190 pages altogether including worksheets for a wide range of learner levels. There are reading, writing, listening, and speaking exercises about a variety of topics so you might find it difficult to choose just one. There are other worksheets to choose from too so be sure to look at the rest of the section. Fun activities that help students get to know one another and get used to the classroom will put them in a positive mindset when it comes to learning English. Those first few lessons are an important part of establishing a good rapport with students and setting the stage for future classes. Good luck!
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Funny Poem: Past Simple Gap Fill Worksheet
A bad case of the sneezes, by Bruce Lansky.Funny 'school excuses' poem, and gap fill exercise created to practise the past simple tense. Can also be used as a reading exercise, a warmer or filler ...
English Is Fun!
This PPT contains several word and vocabulary games. It can be used at back-to-school lessons or occasionally for classroom entertainment. Some teachers may use it to test some aspects of English ...
Classroom Language
Worksheet on instructions used in class (Back to school). It's a match up exercise. Give it to your students at the beginning of the school year to interact in your English class. You can also cut ...
Icebreakers
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 ...
Find 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 othe ...
Introductory 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 ...
Revision 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 student ...
Personal Information Worksheet
The first one is a worksheet with some sentences to be completed with personal information. The sencond one is a worksheet with trhee conversation and students fill some blank spaces with the word ...
Answers : Why Take a Gap Year?
This worksheet contains the answers and summary concerning the video " why take a gap year?". My students sum it up in French since it is their mother tongue. Nevertheless you can adapt the third ...
24 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 speakin ...
Listening Comprehension: Why Take a Gap Year?
This worksheet is composed of three parts: in the first one, the students must answer the questions about the global comprehension. In the second one, they must answer questions as well but more p ...
Introduce 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 he ...
First 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. ...
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