- •Greeting People and Responding
- •Introducing People and Answering an Introduction
- •Informal
- •2. Make up short dialogues introducing people in different formal and informal
- •Topical vocabulary
- •II. Character adjectives
- •III. People and Family
- •Vocacabulary exercises
- •Family relationships
- •Interview with 16-year-old daughter Helen
- •Interview with 17-year-old son David
- •Interview with mother
- •Checking Understanding Match the verbs in a with the definitions in в
- •Idiomatic expressions
- •The Kind of Person I am
- •Relationships
- •Vocabulary
- •Writing:
- •Grammar
- •Ex. 1. Choose the correct form, the singular or the plural.
Unit 1
Conversation Topic: PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION.
Greeting People and Responding
Greetings |
Responses |
Formal
- How do you do, Mr. Brown. - Good morning, Dr. Sampson. How are you? - Good evening, sir (ma'am). |
- How do you do, Mr. White. - Good morning. - I'm fine, thank you. - Good evening. |
Neutral
- Hello, Paul. How are you doing? - Hello. It's a nice evening, isn't it? |
- Hello, Ted. I'm doing well, thank you. - Fine, how are you? (What about you?) - It's lovely, indeed. |
Informal
- Morning, Jeam. Are you doing Okay? - Hi, Freddie. What are you up to these days? - Hey, Jack. How's it going? - Cheerio! |
- Not bad. You? - Great, thanks. What about you? - Couldn't be better! Yourself? - Can't complain. How about you? - Fantastic! - Lousy! |
Introducing People and Answering an Introduction
Introducing yourself |
Answering an introduction |
Introducing someone |
Formal
- May I introduce myself. My name is... I'm a ... - Allow me to introduce myself... |
- Pleased/glad to meet you, Mr... - How do you do, Mr... We were looking forward to see you. - We've heard so much of you. - I'm delighted to meet you |
- Mr. P., I'd like to introduce you ... - Ladies and gentlemen, I have are a pleasure in introducing ... - Allow me to introduce you Doctor H... - Let me introduce, Mr... |
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Neutral |
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- Hello. I'm Hunt. - Excuse me, my name is...
|
- Nice to meet you... - How do you do? - Pleased to meet you. - Pleasure is all mine. |
- Marry, I'd like you to meet our new secretary. Her name is... - This is my wife, Marry. - Mr. Brown, this is Mr. White; Mr. White, this is Mr. Brown. |
Informal
- Hi, I'm Fred. - Hello, I'm your cousin from Australia. |
- Hi, Fred. How are you? - Good to meet you, F. - Hi, dear, glad to see you. |
- This is Fred. - Dad, meet Fred. - Oh, look. Here is Fred. |
EXERCISES
1. Read the following illustrative dialogues
Greeting people
1
- Good morning, Mr. Roberts. How are you?
- Oh, good morning, Dr. Wagner. I'm very well, thank you. And you?
- I'm fine, thank you.
2
- How are you?
- Not bad. But my daughter's not well today.
- Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
3
- Hello, Al! How are you?
- Fine, thanks. Nice to see you again
Asking the name
1
- Excuse me, aren't you Henry Pollard?
- Yes, that's right.
2
- Excuse me, is your name Fred Andrews?
- No, I'm sorry, it isn't. It's Jake Barker.
- I'm sorry.
3
- Excuse me, are you Fred Andrews?
- Yes, I am.
- Oh, hello! I'm Alice Watson.
- Oh, yes. How do you do?
- How do you do?
4
- What's your name?
- Catherine. What's your name?
Introducing yourself and other people
1
- Professor Andrews, this is Dr. Baxter.
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
2
- Sally, do you know Steve?
- No, how do you do?
- Hello, Sally. I'm glad to meet you.
3
- Tony, I'd like to introduce my friend Mary Parker.
- Oh, hello. I've heard so much about you.
- Hello.
4
- May I introduce myself? My name is Susan Roper.
- Oh, hello. I'm John Lee. I'm sorry, er, I didn't catch you name.