First Lesson

Get 108 first lesson speaking cards for adult English learners - six ready-made sets, one for every level from A1 to C2 - with ice-breakers, key vocabulary and grammar questions that help you get to know a new student, build rapport and run a quick needs analysis in the very first lesson.

• A1 - Nice to Meet You: first lesson cards for beginners - names, three important numbers, a photo on the phone, live in, work as, have got, like / love / hate, to be, present simple, can and there is / there are.
• A2 - Getting to Know You: two truths and a lie, this or that, a really good day this year, commute, be good at, spend time, adverbs of frequency, present continuous, past simple, going to and comparatives.
• B1 - Tell Me About Yourself: three words that describe you, first job, things in common, be responsible for, deal with, struggle with, set a goal, present perfect, for / since, used to, first conditional and relative clauses.
• B2 - Who You Are, What You Need: a six-word story, an unpopular opinion, a hidden skill, fluency vs accuracy, get stuck, comfort zone, make the most of, present perfect continuous, narrative tenses, second conditional, indirect questions and future perfect.
• C1 - Beyond Small Talk: pet peeves, turning points, teach me something, a steep learning curve, strike a balance, out of your depth, wish, mixed conditionals, cleft sentences, modals of deduction and reporting passives.
• C2 - The Finer Points: untranslatable words, changed my mind, overrated vs underrated, a far cry from, a knack for, rough around the edges, inversion, conditionals without if, the subjunctive, hedging, nominalisation and participle clauses.