Meeting people
Lesson plan overview
This worksheet is designed for A2–B1 level English learners, suitable for both General English and Business English contexts. It helps students build confidence in meeting new people, making friends, and networking in everyday life and professional settings. By the end of this worksheet, learners will be able to use essential vocabulary and expressions to start conversations, make small talk, build rapport, and apply polite greetings and goodbyes appropriate to different settings.
This worksheet is suitable for adult learners improving their social English for travel, everyday life, or study abroad, as well as young professionals or business learners developing networking and small-talk skills.
Activities included:
Speaking: Learners discuss personal experiences of making friends, where and how they meet people, and whether it’s easier as an adult. They also practice useful expressions for meeting people and talking about social circles.
Vocabulary: A matching activity introduces collocations such as make friends, get out of your bubble, stay in touch, and keep a conversation going. Learners complete the expressions with correct verbs and meanings.
Speaking: Students share tips on how to meet new people using prompts like “You should…”, “It’s a good idea to…”, and “Make sure you…”.
Listening: Students watch a video segment (10 Tips to Meet New People and Make New Friends), complete the tips they hear, and compare with their own ideas. Discussion questions guide reflection on which tips are practical and surprising.
Dialogue Practice: Three model dialogues are provided (informal, semi-formal, and formal). Learners complete them and practice them in pairs.
Functional Language: Greetings & Goodbyes: Learners sort expressions into informal and formal categories, practicing how to open and close conversations naturally in different situations.
Role-plays in informal (socializing) and formal (networking) contexts encourage learners to practice greetings, questions, and polite closings.
For more speaking practice, you can use the conversation cards.
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