A selection of English ESL socializing or small talk ppt slides with discussion starters, speaking cards, speaking practice

Discussion starters, speaking cards

Socializing or small talk

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

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how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This is a fun and informative presentation about the use of SHOULD/SHOULDN\'T and OUGHT TO/OUGHT NOT TO. It\'s recommended for adults and high school students from Elementary or Pre Intermediate levels. There is a ball activity related to giving advice, a quiz and a song. Enjoy!

ADVICE (SHOULD)

This powerpoint shall provide questions and example answers that can help the students learn what to say when introducing themselves. The lesson is really short, you can add more questions to it depending on the level of your student. :)

Simple and Short Self-Introduction

The presentation gives your students a chance to improve their speaking skills or prepare for a speaking part of an English exam.

It includes FCE-like tasks: 

-compare pictures and answer some questions

-make a dialogue with a partner to decide which option would be the best

-discussion

Talking about holidays

A presentation that goes introduces the fundamentals around small talk.



It includes things to talk about, not to talk about as well as plenty of examples to be used as prompts to get the student to practice.



It will definitely work better in 1-1 lessons with students who can at least have a conversation with you however, you can adapt the content to work in pair/group activities as well.

Small Talk

In this PowerPoint Presentation, students get to analyze the differences between Formal and Informal Speech. There are slides that serve as guidance (introduction with the objectives of the lesson and a video to watch if you click on the title "Video") use of contrastive definitions. Characteristics of Formal and Informal Language. Examples, grammar exercises, Speaking practice, and a Listening activity.

Formal and Informal Speech

This presentation can help you to learn several variants of saying sorry in English. How can you apologie in a formal and informal ways. It suits for elementary students best of all.

how to say Sorry

In this powerpoint presentation, we close the topic on shopping at the supermarket. In this presentation, it covers simple conversations that are generally used in the supermarket. It also helps the student to build their vocabulary on shopping words. This can be used as a whole class activity, on on one or as a group lesson. This can also be adapted to Zoom for online learning.

Shopping Part 3

The objective of this lesson is to increase the comfort of casual speaking.

START your lesson with your own small talk (how are they, how was their weekend etc.). 

This lesson is engaging and has many open-ended questions to help your students learn

I've added a couple of slides/games about what is OK and not OK to talk about

Don't forget to laugh, laugh and have fun!

Small Talk B1-C2

A tongue and cheek PPT about the history of beer, beer making and modern beer drinking. Throughout the PPT there is one highlighted word on each slide for the students to define and understand.

The History of  Beer...and other stories.

The main objective is to review the basic etiquette rules with your sudents. Another goal is to encourage students to  discuss these rules and to compare them in different countries. 

Basic Etiquette Rules

Summary:



In this presentation, we go over some language related to air travel, vacations, overland travel, and sea/ocean travel.



This is by no means a full/complete list of vocabulary. It contains commonly-used words with an example sentence. 



More info:



Additional words are highlighted with the intention of having students describe, define, use or think about them.



There are prompts to aid teachers/students in eliciting more information out of the students.



Time:



I have used this presentation and when involving students and getting them engaged with the content available, I was unable to get through the entire presentation and ended up getting a  full second hour out of it.



Method:



Works best by letting students read the sentences, followed by you asking them to describe the orange words, use them in sentences or whatever brilliant activity you can think of. As they give you information, you then use this to elicit further information from them. 



For example, mileage points. 



-> ask them how often they fly, and whether they have accumulated points and if so, how many, or whether they have used their points before. 



Do NOT:



Just read out the bold black words, then the sentence and move on to the next word. 



You will bore them to death. 



The presentation works best as an interaction, conversation-based lesson.

Travel Language

This is what I use in my lessons for students whose mother tongue is Russian. This is good especially for adults. It is used for explaining how to ask for things and it would be good after showing this ppt to give a handouts to consolidate what's learnt.

14 Socializing or small talk, Discussion starters, speaking cards, Speaking Practice English ESL powerpoints