This resource (Greetings and Farewells ESL Activities for Elementary Students) is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.
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Teaching greetings and farewells is one of the first steps when introducing English to young learners. These expressions help students begin simple conversations and develop confidence using English in real-life situations.
This ESL Greetings and Farewells resource includes flashcards, worksheets, games, and speaking activities that help elementary English language learners practice common expressions such as hello, hi, good morning, goodbye, and see you later.
This is usually the first class with your Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.
Greetings and Farewells Activities for ESL Students
Greet your students with your hand as you
wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.
Introduce yourself by writing your name on the
board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.
Greetings Unit Flashcards
Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for
the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.
Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:
Hi, I am Tina.
Encourage your students to point to other
flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.
Display
any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a
student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.
Then, ask questions: What's her name?Student: Erika
Make craft
stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she
is.
Greetings Unit Worksheets
More language to practice with this set of worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.
How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and
perform the dialogue.
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Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little
spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.
This is
a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.
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The selfie worksheet. Students
can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine.
Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__
If your students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns showing their work to small groups or to the class.
Name Questionnaire Activity
This name questionnaire is for students to practice introducing themselves in English. Children walk around the classroom asking their classmates, "What's your name?" and record the answers on the worksheet.
Benefit: This activity builds speaking and listening confidence while helping students learn their classmates' names. As a follow-up, the teacher can tally the results and encourage students to report their findings, giving them an authentic opportunity to use English through meaningful classroom interactions. 😊📝
Questionnaires are interactive and encourage active participation. Students will actively engage in collecting data and practice all language skills.
Practice his and her with this worksheet.
Students
can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this
resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students
stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that
are sitting down.
Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.
A wrap up activity to make this greetings flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.
Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on
the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the
flaps.
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Students will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.
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Have
your students play with another student reading and answering what is written
on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask
questions to their family members.
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• introducing greetings vocabulary
• practicing short dialogues
• matching expressions with pictures
• role-play conversations
• classroom speaking games
