Lesson Plans: Social English

Moving along a board based on your performance in typical meeting and spending time with people situations, ranked by their partners.

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.

Speaking practice of telling people about seasonal and special festivals and celebrations from your own and other cultures

Five fun inviting and responding to invitations coin games, including positive and negative responses, suggested invitations, and inviting on the phone and by email.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suggested questions and topics to chat about the news, good for Social English and current affairs lessons.

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.

Fun review of all necessary language for English for social purposes, with students progressing around a board by how well they interact.

Grammar words in typical phrases for social situations like restaurants and pubs guessing game then brainstorming useful phrases.

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.