TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIES & GAMES Meeting People

Activity Type Introduction

Speaking Activity: Here is an introducing yourself and others speaking activity to
forming sentences, help students practice greetings and introducing themselves and
asking and answering others.
questions, freer practice
(group work) Procedure
Begin by pre-teaching language for greetings, introducing
Focus yourself and others.

Greetings Examples:
Introducing yourself and Hello, I'm...
others What's your name?
Nice to meet you (too).
What do you do?
Aim ... let me introduce you to ...
To practice greetings, How do you do?
introducing yourself and
others. Divide the class into groups of eight.

Give each student an identity card and a corresponding task card.

Preparation
Explain that the students are going to take on the identity of the
Make one copy of the person on their card and that their task is to find the two people
cards for each group on their task card and introduce them to each other.
of eight and cut as
indicated. All the names and jobs are very similar, so the students need to
listen carefully to make sure they have the right two people.
Level The students then go around the group introducing themselves
Elementary (A1-A2) and asking each other's name and job until they find the two
people who are to be introduced.

Time When a student finds the two people, they introduce them to
each other using the target language.
20 minutes
Example:

Peter Brown: Lucy Brown let me introduce you to Peter Smith.

Lucy Brown: How do you do?
Peter Smith: How do you do? What do you do Lucy?
Lucy Brown: I'm an engineer. And you?
Peter Smith: I'm a sales manager.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIES & Meeting

Identity cards

Task cards
Identity 1 Identity 5

Your name is Peter Brown. Your name is Lucy Harris.

You are a doctor.
Task 1 You are
Taska nurse.
5

Find Lucy Brown, an engineer. Introduce her Find Peter Smith, a sales manager.
to Peter Smith, a sales
Identity 2 manager. Introduce himIdentity
to Lucy Brown,
6 a nurse.

Your name is Peter Brown. Your name is Lucy Harris.

You are a teacher.
Task 2 You are a teacher.
Task 6

Find Lucy Brown, a nurse. Introduce her to Find Peter Smith, a doctor. Introduce him to
Peter Identity
Smith, a doctor.
3 Lucy Brown, an engineer.
Identity 7

Your name is Lucy Brown. Your name is Peter Smith.

You areTask
an engineer.
3 You are aTask
sales7manager.

Find Peter Brown, a doctor. Introduce him to Find Lucy Harris, a nurse. Introduce her to
Lucy Identity
Harris, a 4
nurse. Peter Brown, a teacher.
Identity 8

Your name is Lucy Brown. Your name is Peter Smith.

You are
Taska nurse.
4 You are a doctor.
Task 8

Find Peter Brown, a teacher. Introduce him Find Lucy Harris, a teacher. Introduce her
to Lucy Harris, a teacher. to Peter Brown, a doctor.

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