Smiling business woman shaking hands at a conference

Socialising 1: Breaking the ice

Topic: Socialising and starting conversations
 
Level: Intermediate (B2) and above

Aims:

  • To discuss and deal with some of the psychological issues connected with starting conversations with strangers.
  • To teach some useful phrases for starting a conversation and leaving a conversation.
  • To provide practice and feedback of the situation of starting and leaving conversations with strangers.

Plan components
 
Lesson plan: download

Worksheets: download

By Jeremy Day 

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer.

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I've used several of the lesson plans and worksheets for Business English, but am very disappointed to find that several are not available. Have they been removed?
Hi Jennythird, We have had a technical issue with the site, which is why you might be having problems downloading lesson plans and worksheets - the lessons have not been removed. I've fixed the links for this plan now, so you should be able to download the materials. Please let me know if you are still having problems. Thanks, Cath
Thanks for putting this up Jeremy. Will be using this for my next class.

At times when I face emergencies and can't find time to prepare a lesson plan something like this is like a guardian angel.