Greetings & Introductions ESL Role-Plays, Worksheets, Games & Activities

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less

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. show less