Let's Catch Up
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Let's Catch Up

This ESL lesson plan is perfect for adult A1-A2 group learners, focusing on speaking skills through conversational scenarios. Students practice understanding and using common phrases for planning meetups via role-plays, gap-filling exercises, and dialogue creation. Activities encourage collaboration, vocabulary building, and confidence in everyday interactions. Ideal for improving conversational English in a fun and relatable context!

Skills

  • Can understand short, simple messages sent via social media or email (e.g. proposing what to do, when and where to meet).
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

In pairs, match each phrase with its meaning. Then check the task together with the teacher and the rest of the group.

2

In pairs, read the chat aloud. Take turns to role-play it.

3

Write the correct name in each line.

4

Fill in the gaps in the following sentences.

5

Work in pairs. Reply to each question with a full sentence.

6

Work in pairs.

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