LESSON PLAN: Greetings and Introductions

FOCUS: Greetings

TIME:45-60 mins
LEVEL: Beginner

MAIN
OBJECTIVES

After this lesson, students will be able to greet each other in

different ways, and introduce people and say where they are
from.

MATERIALS
NEEDED

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

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 _____, hes/shes from ______.

WARM-UP
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)

Ask students what they say when they see someone they know.
Elicit hello and ask students what other greetings they know.
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
(10 mins)

On the board write:

Whats your name?

My names ________.
Im __________.

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?

Im 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?

Im 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
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)

Ask the students to stand in a circle. Take the ball in your hand
and say My name is ______. Then throw the ball to a strong
student and encourage him/her to say My name is ______.
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 Im from
______.
Throw the ball around the class until every student has said
My name is ______, and Im from ______.
COMMUNICATION Hand out the Gapfill worksheet to students to complete in
PRACTICE
pairs.
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)
COMMUNICATION
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)

Show students the Tom picture and ask Where is Tom from?
Elicit Hes from Beijing.
Show students the Anne picture and ask Where is Anne
from? Elicit Shes 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
others paper.
Students ask each other questions to find out the missing
information from their worksheet.

PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)

Handout the Rearrange the conversation worksheets to

students to complete in pairs.

WRAP-UP
ACTIVITY
(5-10 mins)

On the board write:

This is my friend, his/her names _______.

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.