Social English games, worksheets and e-book

Hundreds of PDFs and teaching ideas for meeting people, small talk, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.

Social English e-book

Teaching Social English: Interactive Classroom Activities 2nd Edition (over 350 pages of photocopiable materials) – NEW EDITION

Teaching Social English articles

Social English articles page

and see the links below for articles on meeting people, small talk, restaurant language, invitations etc

Useful Social English phrases lists

The 100 most useful social English phrases

The big list of social English phrases (in this very cheap e-book)

Social English index pages

Small talk page

Meeting and greeting page

Talking about your company and job page

Starting and ending conversations page

Conversational reactions page

Invitations page

Making arrangements page

Recommendations page

Restaurant language page

Active listening page

Giving directions page

Requests and offers page

Business socialising page

Other photocopiable social English classroom activities

see the index pages above for many more on small talk, socialising, meeting and greeting, etc

Social English problems and solutions 

Social English rotating revision board game

Socialising prepositions and determiners pairwork

Meeting people and small talk yes/ no questions games

Needs analysis and brainstorming (with useful language for meeting people for the first time)

Personal questions with be speaking

Social English responses card games

Social English for business

Social English and phrasal verbs

Related pages

Functional language main page

Updated 21 February 2024