My articles on the topic on Onestopenglish got another mention on their newsletter recently. If you’re not a subscriber there, I’ve massively expanded and reorganised my first lessons page here to include:

– 10 general articles on the topic

– specific pages with articles and worksheets on first classes for FCE, IELTS, kids, biz and ESP, Academic Writing, and BULATS

– links to other topics which are useful in first lessons such as starting and ending conversations

And here they all are:

First lessons worksheets and teaching ideas