A. METTINGS AND GREETING
1. Introduce Yourself
On the first day when you are in a new school, you are asked by your teacher to introduce yourself. There are two ways to introduce yourself.
| Formal introductions | Respones |
| - May I introduce myself? My name`s… | pleased to meet you |
| - Hello, allow me introduce myself? My name`s… | Nice to meet you |
| - Let me introduce myself? I`m… | Nice to see you |
| - I don`t think we`ve met before? I`m.. | Glad to see you / meet you |
| - Hello my name`s… | How do you do? I`m |
| Informal Introduce | Respones |
| - I`m…how are you? | - Fine,thanks. I`m… |
| - Hi, I`m…and you? | - I`m… |
| - I`m… what`s yours | - My name`s… |
2. Intoducing Someone to others
If you want to introduce people who have not met each other before, you can use the following expressions:
Let me introduce… I`d like to introduce… May I introduce… I`d like you to meet… Have you met… This is…To respond these introductions above, you can see the following expressions :
§ Pleased to meet you
§ Nice to meet you
§ Hi, I`m…
§ Hello, I`m…
§ How do you do?
If you are in a meeting and you are introduce a speaker or someone who is an honor guest, you can use these expressions :
y Ladies and gentlemen, Professor Brown
y Ladies and gentlemen, I have great pleasure in introducing our guest.
3. Meeting People
If you meet people whom you know, you can say :
Good morning/afternoon/evening (the response are the same).If you meet people whom you know a little better, you can say:
x How are you?
To responed that, you can say :
ª Fine, thanks.
ª Very well, thank you
ª Not very well (if tou condition is not good)
4. Greetings
I f you want to greet someone better, you can say :
Hello… How are you doing? How are you getting on? Morning. (bill) Hi..When you greet someone after not seing him/her for sometime, you can say :
¡ What a surprise!
¡ How nice to see you!
¡ Nice to see you again!
¡ Nice o meet you again!
¡ Really good to se you again!
¡ Long time no see!
5. Pre Closing
The following are expressions before you say goodbye :
Well, I`m afraid I have to be going. Well, I`m afraid I`ve got to go now. It`s been a pleasure. Thank you for the… (advice) Well, getting late Maybe we could get together sometimes I really must go now I was nice to see you I know you`re busy… Great seeing you…/ great to see you I`ve really got to go Nice to see you Got to go now6. Closing
This is the end of you greeting. It is used to close your meeting :
À Until the next time
À Good night
À Good bye
À Have a nice… (weekend)
À See you next time
À Talk to you later
À See you later
The end
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