Getting to know new students (A2)

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • talk about themselves, their hobbies and free time,
  • share their experience of learning English,
  • discuss different everyday objects,
  • talk about work with the lesson of your choice: the one that focuses on famous companies and explores the verbs to describe their operation or the one about job roles and different responsibilities people carry out in a company; 
  • describe their company and their job;
  • learn and practise phrases to talk about work and job roles.

This lesson set is designed to give you an opportunity to learn more about your new students: their work, hobbies, and experiences.

This is a lesson set. Use the lessons in the set in the suggested order. Learn more about sets here.

Each lesson in the set is also a standalone lesson.

Lesson 1

Get to know your new students
getting to know you lesson
Standard Lesson 60 min Unlimited Plan

Nice to meet you! – first lesson with A2 students

General

This lesson offers a variety of activities that allow students to share something about themselves. In this lesson, students discuss questions, describe pictures, rate activities related to English lessons, complete statements, and create questions.

Lesson 2

Choose one of the lessons to talk with your students about work and careers
pre‐intermediate Business English lesson plan
Standard Lesson 60 min Unlimited Plan

What do you do?

Business

Students learn verbs (e.g. specialise, produce, provide, etc.) and use them to talk about famous companies. They also learn phrases to talk about their jobs (e.g. deal with, manage, commute, etc.). Students explore prepositions that can be used with the word ‘work’ and prepare a presentation about their job and company.

talk about job roles
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

Company roles

Business

Students talk about job roles and practise phrases about the topic (e.g. responsible for, set goals, solve tech problems, etc.). They watch a short promo for a famous company and plan the first hires for their fictitious business.

Lesson 3

Revise the vocabulary and talk about different jobs
conversation questions about professions
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min Free

Talking about professions

Business

Students not only share more information about themselves but also practise the vocabulary they’ve learnt in Lesson 2. Encourage them to use the phrases in ex. 1 (slide 3) and ex. 6 (slides 15-16). Students also watch a video about unusual professions and discuss different jobs.

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  1. Edmar Caie

    Great. I was looking for something like this!

    1. Stan

      Fantastic! Let us know how it went 🙂

  2. YuliaLyu

    Lesson 1 is awesome!

    1. Justa

      Happy to hear that! Thanks for the comment!

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