Links to materials for typical first class topics like needs analysis and small talk. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Useful books for first classes
Teaching Social English: Interactive Classroom Activities 2nd Ed (for needs analysis, meeting and greeting, starting and ending conversations and small talk) – NEW EDITION
Teaching first lessons articles
First lessons with young learners articles page
First lessons index pages
Business/ ESP first lessons page
Related pages
Starting and ending conversations page
Describing your job and company page
Learner training page (for discussion of good and bad language learning)
Tense review page (to quickly run through the language that they will be studying)
Functional language review page (ditto)
Checking/ Clarifying page (to make sure they have language to deal with communication problems, ask the teacher questions, etc)
Updated 30 August 2022
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