LESSON PLAN: Greetings and Introductions TIME:45-60 mins

FOCUS: Greetings LEVEL: Beginner

MAIN After this lesson, students will be able to greet each other in
OBJECTIVES different ways, and introduce people and say where they are
from.

MATERIALS A ball or something that can be thrown across the classroom.

NEEDED
‘How are you?’ worksheet, ‘Gapfill’ worksheet, ‘Tom’ picture,
‘Information exchange’ worksheet, ‘Rearrange the conversation’
worksheets, ‘Puppets’

(These are all available to download from this site.)

LANGUAGE How are you?
Where are you from?
This is _____, he’s/she’s from ______.

WARM-UP Ask students what they say when they see someone they know.
ACTIVITY Elicit “hello” and ask students what other greetings they know.
(5-10 mins) On the board write:

hello goodbye hi good morning

Ask students which one is NOT a greeting.

Tell students they have two minutes to greet as many of their
classmates as possible – encourage them to use as many
different greetings as possible.

Hand out the ‘How are you?’ worksheet to each student to

complete individually.
PRESENTATION On the board write:
(10 mins)

What’s your name?

My name’s ________.
I’m __________.

Practice these structures by asking students what their names

are.
Ask students to work in pairs and ask each other what their
names are.
On the board write:

How are you?

I’m fine thanks.

Practice these structures and tell students to work in pairs and

ask each other how they are.

On the board write:

Where are you from?

I’m from _______.

Practice these structures by asking students where they are

from.
Ask students to work in pairs and ask each other where they
are from.
COMMUNICATION Ask the students to stand in a circle. Take the ball in your hand
PRACTICE and say “My name is ______.” Then throw the ball to a strong
ACTIVITY student and encourage him/her to say “My name is ______.”
(5-10 mins) This student then throws the ball to another student who does
the same.

When every student has caught the ball and said their name,
 take the ball again and say “My name is ______, and I’m from
______.”
Throw the ball around the class until every student has said
“My name is ______, and I’m from ______.”

COMMUNICATION Hand out the ‘Gapfill’ worksheet to students to complete in

PRACTICE pairs.
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)
COMMUNICATION Show students the ‘Tom’ picture and ask “Where is Tom from?”
PRACTICE Elicit “He’s from Beijing.”
ACTIVITY Show students the ‘Anne’ picture and ask “Where is Anne
(5-10 mins) from?” Elicit “She’s from London.”

Divide the students into pairs, one is student A, the other is

student B.
Hand out the ‘Information exchange’ worksheet and tell
students to sit back to back so that they cannot see each
other’s paper.
Students ask each other questions to find out the missing
information from their worksheet.
PRODUCTION Handout the ‘Rearrange the conversation’ worksheets to
ACTIVITY students to complete in pairs.
(5-10 mins)

WRAP-UP On the board write:

ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)
This is my friend, his/her name’s _______.

Students work in groups of three and take it in turns to

introduce each other.

Give each student a finger puppet and tell them to give it a

name and a city or country. Explain that the puppets only
“speak” English. Divide the class into groups of two or three and
tell students to introduce their puppets to each other.