Being a host and guest PDFs, teaching tips and useful phrases. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
E-book with socialising materials
50 photocopiable pages on socialising, plus 300 more pages on related social English topics such as invitations)
Teaching Social English: Interactive Classroom Activities Second Edition – NEW EDITION
Useful business socialising phrases lists
The 100 most useful socialising phrases
Teaching socialising articles
How to teach business socialising
12 fun business socialising language activities
Photocopiable business hospitality classroom activities
Needs analysis and business small talk (with link to business socialising/ hospitality) – NEW LINK
Socialising in the UK tips and useful phrases (and in this really cheap e-book)
Entertaining foreign guests roleplay meeting
Meetings on the topic of food, drink and entertaining
Describing food sentence completion activities
Socialising prepositions and determiners pairwork
Guest or host in restaurants simplest responses game, key words and card games
Language for hosts and guests in restaurants – older and simpler version of the worksheet above
Explaining Japanese food and drink (good as preparation to entertain foreign guests – specifically for Japanese learners but easily adaptable for any nationality that you know well)
Dealing with foreign guests meeting criteria board game
Inviting and dealing with invitations phrases and speaking
Business socialising discussion
Places to take guests discussion
Language for entertaining a foreign visitor
Business hospitality politeness competition
Business hospitality first conditional discussion
Other photocopiable business social language classroom materials
Social language at conferences and trade fairs
Related pages
Starting and ending conversations page
Meeting people and greetings page
Business functional language main page
Updated 2 September 2026