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DVD Worksheet 4: Pre-intermediate

2.1 SMALL TALK

Business Skills

Pre-intermediate DVD Clip 4

Objectives: Speaking
Can use simple, everyday polite forms of greeting and address

Mike and Li from Clear Moon Solutions are meeting Jennifer and Pablo from Worldwide Bank for the first time.

Meeting and greeting

1 Watch the video clip. Choose the correct options.
1 Pablo / Jennifer greets the visitors first.
2 They use first names only / full names.
3 The visitors have flown from Spain / Singapore.
4 The visitors had a very smooth / turbulent flight.
5 Their flight lasted two hours / twenty hours.
6 Mike watched a lot of films / drank a lot of coffee on the plane.
2 Work in pairs. Watch the video clip again. Then put the meeting and greeting
dialogue in the correct order.
a) Pablo: Oh, nice to meet you both.
b) Jennifer: Hi Mike. It’s nice to meet you. This is Pablo, our Manager of
Business Development. Pablo, Li is the Chief Technical Consultant
at Clear Moon.
c) Li: Hi. We’re happy to be here. Mike, this is Jennifer the CTO of
Worldwide Bank. Mike is our Information Architect.
d) Li: Nice to meet you, too.
e) Jennifer: Hi. Thanks so much for coming.
f ) Mike: Great to meet you, Pablo.

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DVD Worksheet 4: Pre-intermediate

3 Work in groups of four. Role-play the following situation. Use expressions from
Exercise 2 and the useful language box where appropriate.
Business Skills

If you have time, swap roles and role-play the situation again.

Task
Sweet Treats, a specialist chocolate manufacturer, is visiting a confectionary
retailer, Chocolate Box. Take one of the roles below and introduce yourself to
the people in the other company. Greet people from the other company after
they introduce themselves or their colleague.
A Company name: Chocolate Box
Job Title: Senior Buyer
Comment: You are very interested in Sweet Treats’ products. You saw
them last week at a food fair. Introduce yourself and let
your guests respond. Introduce your CEO.
B Company name: Chocolate Box
Job Title: CEO
Comment: You are looking for new chocolate ranges. Say how
pleased you are that your senior buyer found them.
Welcome the chocolate manufacturers.
C Company Name: Sweet Treats
Job Title: CEO
Comment: Shake hands with the CEO and respond. You would be
delighted to work with such a well-respected high street
store. Introduce yourself and your Head Chocolatier.
D Company name: Sweet Treats
Job Title: Head Chocolatier
Comment: You would be excited to develop a unique range for
Chocolate Box. Shake hands with the CEO and Head Buyer
and greet them.

Useful language
Jennifer: Thank you so much for coming all the way from Singapore to see us.
Did you have a good flight?
Li: Yes, actually, it was very smooth.
Pablo: That’s around twenty hours, right?
Mike: Yeah, but I got to watch a ton of movies!
Jennifer: Would you like some coffee or water before we get started?
Mike: Sure, coffee would be great, thanks.
Li: I’d love some water.

2 The correct order is e, c, b, a, d, f.

watched a lot of films 6
twenty hours 5
very smooth 4
Singapore 3
first names only 2
Jennifer 1 1
Answer key

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