3 Read the dialogues. Decide whether they are taking place in formal (f), semi-formal (s) or informal (I) situations:
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– Mr. Smith, may I introduce a colleague of mine, Mr. Brown? – How do you do, Mr. Brown? – How do you do? |
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– This is John Green. He’s our Project Coordinator. – Pleased to meet you, Mr. Green. Did you have a good journey? |
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– Alan, have you met Linda? She is my groupmate. – Hi, Linda. Nice meeting you. Is this your first visit to the USA? |
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– Hello, everybody. I’m Nick. Nick Salt. I’m a first year student of philosophy. – Hi, Nick. This is Ann and this is Mary. They are from the faculty of journalism. – Nice meeting you. How do you like being students? |
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– Miss Lane, I’d like to introduce you to a colleague of mine. – Certainly. – Miss Lane, this is my colleague, Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent this is Miss Lane. – How do you do? It is a pleasure to meet you Mr. Kent. – It is a pleasure to meet you too, Miss Lane. |
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4 Choose from Appendix 1 (c. Making introductions) the most suitable phrases to introduce yourself to:
your teacher;
your groupmates.
5 To get to know each other better introduce yourself and add a sentence or two about yourself. Some ideas to begin:
Let me introduce myself, my name is Maria and I have high hopes of becoming ... My favourite pastime is ...
Hi, everybody! My name is Pavel. My ambition is ....
My name is Julia. I’m glad to meet you all. I graduated from school ...
Hello everyone! My name is …. I’m happy to be a student. I enjoy ...
Developing communication skills: Starting a conversation. |
– Hi, Maria! You’re from the Department of Philosophy, aren’t you? – Yes, I am. Are you from the Department of Psychology? – Yes, we are. Have you already had your classes of English? – Yes, we had the Placement Test last week and I’m in an advanced group. – Congratulations!
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6 Practice the conversations with a partner. Match a line in A with a reply in B and a further comment in C.
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I am enjoying it. |
Was it a good game? |
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Yes, no problems. |
That’s very kind of you. |
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I’m very well, thanks. |
We had a pub lunch and went for a walk. |
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No, I missed it. |
The plane was a bit late, but it didn’t matter. |
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Thank you. |
Makes you feel miserable, doesn’t it? |
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Thank you very much. |
I got it in Paris last year. |
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Yes. |
How about you? |
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Yes, it was lovely. |
It was a bit strange at first, but I’m getting used to it. |
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Mm. Horrible. |
Beautiful, isn’t it? |
T 1.1. Listen to the tape and check.
T 1.2.
Maria and Jean-Paul are foreign students in Britain. Their teachers are trying to be friendly. Listen to two conversations and decide:
Which conversation is more successful?
What makes one conversation more successful than the other?
Listen again. Think of necessary additions to Maria’s short answers.
Act out the first conversation to make it more successful.
7 Take a look at the ‘Group portrait’ presented by some students who united under the motto ‘Life-Long Learners’. Restore the questions they asked their groupmates to make this portrait. Write them down.
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8 Think of three questions you would like to know about your groupmates .
FOR IDEAS: their favourite food, favourite music, favourite subject, the countries they have visited, the pets they have, the exercise they do to keep fit, their experience in learning English, etc.
Go round the class and ask your questions to get material for your short reports. Report to the class what you have found.
9 Work in groups of three and decide how to present the findings of your surveys together. Choose one of these options:
to write an article “We are people with common interests, yet we are different”,
to make a poster “Group Portrait”,
to draw a diagram illustrating your common interests and differences.
Be ready to make a short report at your next lesson.
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