This is the getting to know each other section of the site where you can discover new ways to encourage your students to share more information about themselves with one another or the class as a whole. With 207 worksheets to choose from, you should find something your students will like. Teachers have suggested that many of these worksheets be used in your first class with students but this getting-to-know-you activity is a little different. This worksheet helps students compose and deliver a report about themselves so wait until students feel more comfortable with one another before introducing this activity. Even after a year of class together, students will still be able to think of some new information to share. You might also consider using this as a review after you have covered all the individual questions in other class periods. There are many worksheets in this section that are appropriate for learners of different levels and ages if this one does not fit into your course. .
Being able to introduce yourself is important when meeting new people and since this is a common occurrence it is good to have student practice asking and answering some basic questions such as the ones on the worksheets in this section. Students will have to have a good grasp of the required vocabulary before starting to learn these sentence structures. Once students have mastered the answers, introduce the question forms and allow students to practice using interview activities and model dialogues.
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This is not meant for your students, but yourself! I have made this one to get to know my new students a little better. Knowing what like to learn and what they're not very good at learning, I've ...
This an exercise I use on the first day of class with new groups that I haven't met before. It's a nice alternative to having all your students coming up with robotic responses like my name is Pi ...
I designed this worksheet to practice indirect questions. A student will play one of the roles in it as a celebrity, while the others may ask questions based on the gists given. Of course, you can ...
This worksheet provides an activity where the student can practice the use and difference between I am and I have. Describing himself or herself. It is common for complete beginners to confuse whe ...
This worksheet could be handed out at the beginning of a new class. It will help them get to know each other in an instructive way. Students start off individually answering the questions on the ...
Quick and easy board game ("Get-to-Know-You" activity) for the first week of class. Students roll a die twice to find their question to talk about for one or two minutes. (Questions such as: "Ta ...
This worksheet will help students introduce themselves and others. They will review questions about personal information, the pronounciation of the alphabet in English in order to be able to spell ...
This worksheet contains a teenager's ID useful to revise some basics (name, age, nationality, personality, etc...). After an oral presentation of the girl, the students are asked to fill their own ...
This ice-breaker is suitable, as most of them, at the beginning of a school year when you start teaching a new group of learners. It works best if students don't know each other as well. But it is ...
A new school year is almost here in many European countries. Here you can find 4 fun activities ideal for the beginning of the new school year with new classes. Let your students get to know you, ...
It is a mingling activity for Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate level learners. Probably useful to get to know each others. Although best suitable to be used in the beginning of the course to getto ...
Ice breaker On the first day of class, before introducing myself, I write 5 sentences on the board in a tense appropriate to the level. Some are outrageous lies, but others which can seem to be so ...
A great first day speaking activity. First student's complete the identification chart by themselves. Then elicit or teach the questions for each cell. At last let the students use the questions t ...
For adult, complete beginner students - When using your own personal information becomes too boring (and too easy), use this activity to change things up. Each student receives a card with their ' ...
It is a 2 page worksheet with key. The ws contains extended vocabulary of verbs and phrases expressing likes and dislikes and also a list of free time activities. It also has some rules and four e ...
A humorous presentation on what can make a first date go wrong. It gives students ideas to further discuss the subject and to practise vocabulary related to relationships. Ask your students to li ...
This worksheet helps students to know some adjectives to describe their feelings when someone ask them. Teaching students how and when to say Hello and Goodbye to other people. This worksheet focu ...
With adults or young adults in mind, this sheet is a selection of questions that English speakers will often ask or be asked on first introductions. This could act as a prompt for a role play or ...
Introducing yourself to other people. This is a ws to teach your beginner students to interact with other people, greets and farewells are very important in everyday linguistic interactions and st ...
With the help of this worksheet you will have the opportunity to enrich your vocabulary on the topic "family". Not only new words, but verbs to describe family relationships and interesting ...
Everyone has a dream. Ideal for business conversation. Students can use their creativity to come up with information. Design a business card to go along with the information and exchange informati ...
This worksheet is about asking and answering name and age. I use it to make students train the writing odf the questions and of the answers. After the writing exercise students should talk with ea ...
You can give this worksheet to your students and you can ask them to stand up, move around the class and ask questions to their classmates. Then they can note down their classmates' names next to ...
Getting to know exercise for senior students:
1) ask everyone "Who Are You?", encourage them to answer differently (e.g. I am Nick/American/a boy/teenager etc.), then ask to think and explain wh ...
This is a getting to know each other exercise for beginner/elementary level kids. The task is to write about 3 things about yourself on each part of Ziggi's body and then talk about it using the ...
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