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In each new teaching position a teacher will be faced with meeting a number of new classes for the first time. These classes are vital for the teacher to establish rapport with the students and set the tone for the rest of the course. Such classes can fall into two categories: New group ? in this kind of group the students don't know each other and some work will be needed to establish rapport between the class members. Students may be unfamiliar with EFL methodology. Existing group ? in an existing group the students are already likely to know and be comfortable with each other and familiar with EFL teaching. When faced with a first lesson the experienced teacher will not resort to the course book but will try to use activities that will achieve the following: Establish rapport between the students (in the case of a new group) and also between the teacher and the class. Find out about the students. This will allow the teacher to be able to plan future lessons to cater to the students? interests. Find out about the students' needs/aspirations with English. This enables the teacher to tailor the course to meet the needs of the class. Find out the English level of each individual class member. Areas of difficulty with the language can be built into the course syllabus. There are a number of activities that the teacher can use for these purposes: Questionnaire/survey ? the teacher can let the students interview each other using a pre-set questionnaire and then feed back to the class. This will allow the students to get to know about each other. If the teacher monitors the activity closely, he/she will also learn a lot about the students' level of ability in the English language. A similar type of activity is 'Tell us about' which is a board game in Keep Talking (a very useful communicative activities book by Friederike Klippell). Students roll a dice and move their counter to the corresponding square and tell the class about the topic on that square.
