Excuse me, are you...?

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Introducing Yourself Role-Play preview for Elementary (A1-A2) with class mingling and famous person introductions

ESL Introducing Yourself Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice

In this engaging introducing yourself role-play activity, students find famous people and introduce themselves as another famous person. First, students take on the role of the famous person marked on...

ESL Introducing Yourself Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Communicative Practice In this engaging introducing yourself role-play activity, students find famous people and introduce themselves as another famous person. First, students take on the role of the famous person marked on their card. Their task is to find and introduce themselves to the two other famous people shown on the card. Students then go around the class and ask one another 'Excuse me, are you...?' questions. If the person isn't who they are looking for, students say 'Sorry' and move on to speak to someone else. If it is one of the people they are looking for, students introduce themselves by saying 'Hello, I'm... Nice to meet you.' Other phrases are also possible such as 'Let me introduce myself', 'Pleased to meet you', etc. When the students have found and introduced themselves to the two famous people on their cards, they sit down. Afterwards, repeat the activity by giving each student a different card. Finally, students tell the class which famous people they met.
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Greetings

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings Worksheet preview for Elementary (A1-A2) with vocabulary, matching, unscrambling, and dialogue practice

ESL Greetings Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Unscrambling, Sentence Completion, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Dialogue Practice - Pair Work

In this useful greetings worksheet, students learn and practice language used to greet people. First, students match greetings and introductory questions...

ESL Greetings Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Unscrambling, Sentence Completion, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Dialogue Practice - Pair Work In this useful greetings worksheet, students learn and practice language used to greet people. First, students match greetings and introductory questions with responses. Students then unscramble words to form greetings. Next, students complete greetings and introductory phrases with words from a box. After that, students practice the language with a partner by completing a dialogue using the phrases from the worksheet and their own personal information. Lastly, students practice the conversation with their partner and present their dialogue to the class.
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Meeting People

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Introducing Yourself and Others Role-Play preview for Elementary (A1-A2) with group mingling, names and jobs

ESL Introducing Yourself and Others Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Forming Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

Here is a free introducing yourself and others speaking activity to help students practice greetings and introducing themselves and others. Students take on...

ESL Introducing Yourself and Others Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Forming Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work Here is a free introducing yourself and others speaking activity to help students practice greetings and introducing themselves and others. Students take on the identity of the person on their card. Their task is to find the two people on their task card and introduce them to each other. All the names and jobs are very similar, so students need to listen carefully to make sure they have the right two people. Students then go around their group introducing themselves and asking each other's names and jobs until they find the two people who are to be introduced. When a student finds the two people, they introduce them to each other using the target language.
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Nice to Meet You

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Game preview for Elementary (A1-A2) with matching and dialogue ordering

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Vocabulary and Reading: Matching, Ordering - Pair Work

This productive greetings and introductions game is ideal for introducing phrases for greetings, making introductions and saying goodbye. In pairs, students take turns turning over two cards. If the...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Vocabulary and Reading: Matching, Ordering - Pair Work This productive greetings and introductions game is ideal for introducing phrases for greetings, making introductions and saying goodbye. In pairs, students take turns turning over two cards. If the greetings and introductions language on the cards match, the student says the two lines aloud and keeps the cards. If the two cards don't match, the student turns them back over. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. Next, students spread the cards out face-up and read them, matching them together to form two dialogues.
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Portraits

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
ESL Introducing Yourself Activity preview for Elementary (A1-A2) with drawing, names, and group introductions

ESL Introducing Yourself Activity - Speaking: Drawing, Asking and Answering Questions, Labelling, Freer Practice - Group Work

Here is a fun introducing yourself speaking activity to help students introduce themselves and find out each other's names on the first day of class. In groups, students begin by randomly drawing a portrait...

ESL Introducing Yourself Activity - Speaking: Drawing, Asking and Answering Questions, Labelling, Freer Practice - Group Work Here is a fun introducing yourself speaking activity to help students introduce themselves and find out each other's names on the first day of class. In groups, students begin by randomly drawing a portrait of themselves in one of the picture frames on the worksheet. Students then pass their worksheet to the person on their right, who draws themselves anywhere on the worksheet and passes the sheet to the person on their right. This process is repeated until students receive the worksheet they started with, complete with pictures in every frame. After that, students go around the group, identify their classmates from the portraits, find out their names, write them down, and introduce themselves. Finally, students go around the group again without the worksheet and see how many names they can remember.
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Hi! It's Nice to Meet You!

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet preview for Pre-intermediate (A2) with gap-fill, categorising, role-play and conversation

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-Fill, Categorising, Ordering - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this comprehensive greetings and introductions worksheet helps students learn and practice formal and informal phrases for greeting others, making...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-Fill, Categorising, Ordering - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Freer Practice - Group Work In this comprehensive greetings and introductions worksheet helps students learn and practice formal and informal phrases for greeting others, making introductions, engaging in polite conversation, and saying goodbye. To begin, students complete greetings and introductory questions with words from a box. Students then discuss three questions about the language with a partner. Next, students categorise phrases according to their functions. After that, students underline the correct words to complete related sentences and questions. Students then move on to arrange sentences in the correct order to create a conversation involving greetings and introductions. Next, students answer questions about the conversation. Finally, in groups of three, students prepare and present a role-play conversation where one student greets another and introduces them to a third person. The group then engages in a polite conversation and says goodbye.
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It's Good to See You

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play preview for Pre-intermediate (A2) with categorising, group dialogues, and freer practice

ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play - Reading, Writing and Speaking Activity: Categorising, Delivering a Dialogue, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group Work

This enjoyable greetings and introductions role-play activity helps students to learn and practice language for greetings, introductions, making small talk and ending...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play - Reading, Writing and Speaking Activity: Categorising, Preparing and Delivering a Dialogue, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group Work This enjoyable greetings and introductions role-play activity helps students to learn and practice language for greetings, introductions, making small talk and ending a conversation. First, in groups, students role-play a greetings and introductions dialogue. Students then write down the language used in the conversation to greet someone, introduce someone, make small talk, end the conversation, and say goodbye. Students also suggest other possible phrases for each function. Finally, students write and present a similar dialogue where they greet each other, make introductions and small talk, and say goodbye.
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Meet and Greet Role-Play

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play preview for Pre-intermediate (A2) with group and pair practice of formal and informal phrases

ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Communicative Practice - Group and Pair Work

This communicative greetings and introductions role-play activity helps to teach students various formal and informal phrases for greetings and introductions. In two pairs, students write their partner's...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Communicative Practice - Group and Pair Work This communicative greetings and introductions role-play activity helps to teach students various formal and informal phrases for greetings and introductions. In two pairs, students write their partner's name on a card. Each student then greets and introduces themselves to a student in the other pair using specific introductory phrases. Students then ask follow-up questions to get to know each other. Next, students introduce their friend to the person they are speaking to using the phrase on the card. Afterwards, students swap roles and repeat the activity to give them practice at using the formal and informal phrases. Finally, groups act out their role-plays in front of the class.
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Pleased to Meet You

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Game preview for Pre-intermediate (A2) with pelmanism, dialogue practice, and group role-play

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Pelmanism - Speaking Activity: Ordering a Dialogue, Role-Play, Controlled Practice - Group Work

Here is an engaging greetings and introductions game to help students practice formal and informal phrases for greetings, making introductions and...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Pelmanism - Speaking Activity: Ordering a Dialogue, Role-Play, Controlled Practice - Group Work Here is an engaging greetings and introductions game to help students practice formal and informal phrases for greetings, making introductions and saying goodbye. First, in groups, students take turns turning over two cards. The aim of the game is to find the beginning and ending of a phrase for greeting, introducing or saying goodbye. If a student matches a beginning and ending successfully, they say the phrase aloud, keep the cards and have another turn. If not, they turn the cards back over. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. Afterwards, students sort the cards into a conversation between three people. Students then take on the role of the three people and role-play the conversation. Finally, go through the conversation and phrases with the class and elicit other formal or informal phrases that could be used in the conversation. As an extension, groups create similar conversations using the language from the activity and present them to the class.
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Warm Welcomes

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet preview for Pre-intermediate (A2) with gap-fill, dialogue ordering, and comprehension

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Ordering a Dialogue, Comprehension Questions

This free greetings and introductions worksheet helps students learn phrases for greetings and introductions in different settings. Students begin...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Ordering a Dialogue, Comprehension Questions This free greetings and introductions worksheet helps students learn phrases for greetings and introductions in different settings. Students begin by completing a conversation where two roommates are meeting each other for the first time with words from a box. Next, students read lines from a conversation where three people greet each other and make introductions at a party. Students then put the conversation in order by indicating who says each line. Afterwards, students answer four questions based on the two conversations. As an extension, in pairs or groups of three, students create their own greetings and introductions conversation using the language from the worksheet and then present it to the class.
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Sociable Dominoes

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Game preview for Intermediate (B1) with matching dominoes for greetings and responses

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work

In this rewarding greetings and introductions game, students match language for greetings, introductions and saying goodbye with suitable responses. The first player puts down one of their dominoes on either side of the domino on the table...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work In this rewarding greetings and introductions game, students match language for greetings, introductions and saying goodbye with suitable responses. The first player puts down one of their dominoes on either side of the domino on the table, making sure that the language matches with a suitable response. Players then take turns matching their dominoes in the same way by putting a domino down at either end of the domino chain. If a player is unable to put down one of their dominoes, they take one from the top of the pile and put it down if they can. If there are no dominoes left in the pile, play passes to the next student. The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game.
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Casual Greetings

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet preview for Upper-intermediate (B2) with multiple-choice, error correction, gap-fill, and writing

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Multiple Choice, Error Correction, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences

This informative greetings and introductions worksheet helps students practice informal phrases for greeting and introducing people. First, students complete...

ESL Greetings and Introductions Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Multiple Choice, Error Correction, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences from Prompts This informative greetings and introductions worksheet helps students practice informal phrases for greeting and introducing people. First, students complete greetings and introductions by choosing the correct words or phrases from the options shown. Next, students find mistakes in greetings and introductions and correct them. Students then use words from a box to complete four related conversations. Finally, students read situations and write appropriate greetings or introductions using the language from the worksheet.
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Using Greetings and Introductions Language

Greetings and introductions cover the functional phrases people use to meet someone for the first time, acknowledge someone they already know, and introduce people to each other. Students who rely on a single formula such as 'Hello, my name is...' for every situation risk sounding awkward or inappropriate, since English greetings shift significantly depending on whether the context is formal, informal, or somewhere in between.

This page covers greetings and introductions from A1 to B2 level, with 12 worksheets, games, and role-plays, including two free downloads.

The table below shows common situations in which greetings and introductions language is used, with example phrases for each.

SituationSpeaker/RoleExample Phrase
Meeting someone for the first time in a professional setting New acquaintance or business contact 'How do you do? I'm very pleased to meet you.'
Meeting someone for the first time in a social setting New acquaintance at a social event 'Hey! I'm Tom. Great to meet you.'
Introducing yourself to a group or class Student or new team member 'Hi everyone, I'm Maria. I've just moved here from Madrid.'
Introducing one person to another Mutual acquaintance 'James, this is my colleague Priya. Priya, this is James.'
Responding to an introduction Either party 'Pleased to meet you.' or 'Nice to meet you too.'
Greeting someone you already know after a period of time Friend or colleague 'Good to see you again! How have you been?'
Saying goodbye after a first meeting Either party 'It was lovely meeting you. I hope to see you again soon.'

When to Use Greetings and Introductions Language

Meeting someone for the first time in a professional context: When you meet a new client, colleague, or business contact for the first time, formal greetings and introductions signal respect and professionalism, as in 'How do you do? I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr. Okonkwo.'

Introducing two people who don't know each other: When you are with two people who have not yet met, it falls to you to make the introduction, and getting the order right matters since you typically introduce the junior person to the more senior one first, as in 'Professor Lee, I'd like you to meet our new intern, David Park.'

Reconnecting with someone after a gap: When you run into someone you know but haven't seen for a while, a simple 'Hello' is too bare, so you reach for phrases that acknowledge the time passed and invite them to catch up, as in 'It's so good to see you again! It's been ages.'

3-Step Framework for Teaching Greetings and Introductions Language

1. Build a Phrase Bank Before Students Speak: Start by giving students a solid base of target language to work from before any speaking happens. A well-sequenced worksheet takes students from recognition to controlled production, matching greetings and introductory questions with responses, then unscrambling words to form greetings, then completing phrases with words from a box, before finishing with a short dialogue built from those phrases and the student's own personal information. That progression means every student enters speaking practice with the language already in their head.

2. Consolidate Phrase Knowledge Through a Game: Reinforce what students have learned with a card game that makes accurate recall the price of entry. The aim is to find the beginning and ending of a phrase for greeting, introducing, or saying goodbye, and when a student matches a beginning and ending successfully, they say the phrase aloud and earn another turn. Once the game ends, the same cards become a second resource: students sort them into a conversation between three people, which sets them up directly for the role-play stage.

3. Push Students to Produce and Notice at the Same Time: Close with a task that combines production and language awareness. Students first role-play a greetings and introductions dialogue, then write down the language used to greet someone, introduce someone, make small talk, end the conversation, and say goodbye, and they also suggest other possible phrases for each function. That noticing step gives students genuine ownership of the language before they write and perform their own dialogue.

Common Mistakes with Greetings and Introductions Language

Responding to 'How are you?' too literally: Students often respond to 'How are you?' with a detailed or overly honest answer, not realising that in most English greetings exchanges it functions as a social ritual rather than a genuine question, and a brief positive response is expected. Wrong: 'How are you?' 'I am tired and I have a headache.' Correct: 'How are you?' 'Fine, thanks. And you?'

Answering 'How do you do?' as a real question: Students often reply to 'How do you do?' with information about how they feel, treating it as a genuine enquiry rather than a fixed formal greeting that requires the same phrase in return. Wrong: 'How do you do?' 'I'm fine, thank you.' Correct: 'How do you do?' 'How do you do?'

Common Questions About Teaching Greetings and Introductions Language

What is a good worksheet for teaching formal and informal greetings?

The free worksheet Warm Welcomes presents greetings and introductions through two different contexts. Students complete a conversation where two roommates meet each other for the first time, then put a second conversation in order by indicating who says each line as three people greet each other and make introductions at a party. Comprehension questions follow.

What is a fun game for practicing greetings and introductions?

The game Sociable Dominoes has students match language for greetings, introductions, and saying goodbye with suitable responses, building a domino chain around the table. If a player cannot place a domino, they draw from the pile and play it if they can. The pressure of keeping the chain going pushes students to process each phrase and its appropriate response quickly.

What is an interesting activity for introducing people?

Every student in the free activity Meeting People has a specific introduction to make, not just their own. Students take on an identity and must find two people from their task card to introduce to each other. Because all the names and jobs are very similar, students have to listen carefully throughout.

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