First Meeting and Introduction

ACTIVITY
Pairwork or groupwork: speaking

AIM
To introduce yourself and others.

GRAMMAR AND FUNCTION
Questions: What...? Where...? Who...?
Introductions: My name is.../I'm...
Greetings
Spellings

VOCABULARY
Company names and job titles: financial consultant/controller, production manager, research scientist, lecturer, engineer, software consultant, director, training manager, sales representative
The alphabet


MATERIALS AND PREPARATION

Worksheet | Teacher's notes

Cut the table off the bottom of the worksheet and make one copy of it for each student in the class. Make one copy of the cards for each group of up to ten students and cut them out as indicated.

TIME
20 minutes

PROCEDURE

Copy this business card onto the board.

Sarah Cole
Journalist
The Daily News
74 Warwick Street
Birmingham BJ2 8QT

Then model the activity, acting out a dialogue like this:

A: Hello, I'm Collin Benn.
B: Pleased to meet you. I'm Sarah Cole.
A: Are you English?
B: Yes, I'm from Birmingham.
A: Who do you work for?
B: I'm a journalist for the Daily News.
A: Oh really? I work for a newspaper too.

Ask the students to work in groups of between four and ten and give a business card and table to each student.

Explain that they have to complete the table by introducing themselves to one another. They also have to find someone who works in the same field or does the same job as they do.

Go through the answers with the whole class by asking students to introduce the person with whom they found something in common.

FOLLOW-UP
Ask the students to act out similar dialogues using their own names and company names. [source: Reward Pre-Intermediate Business Resource Pack]

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