Big summary

- Greeting = to open a conversation

Informal way

Hi there / hello, hey, hi

what’s up /hey what’s new, how are you doing, how’s life been
treating you /

Asking about someone well – being

• How are you Dina/ couldn’t be better / can’t complain

• How are you Isabel/ great and yourself? / how about you?
• How are you Marcela/ just fine. thanks for asking / not too bad
• Hello, teacher !! remember me? / hey Eliana, how are you doing
• Hello, Sandra I don’t believe it. it’s that really you? / hey teacher
what’s new
• What a big surprise Yoleidy/ hey long time no see. Where were
you? / you haven’t changed much / at all
• It’s been long time / obsoletely. How have you been / you’re
looking great/good/fantastic
• Speak of the devil / how’s life been treating you?
• It has been ages / it’s been a long time
• I can’t believe it’s you / small world isn’t it
Formal way

Hello / how are you

good morning / good afternoon / good evening / it’s a pleasure to
meet you
how is it going? / it’s an honor to meet you.

Addressing someone whose name you can’t remember

 ▪ Haven’t we met before?
▪ You look familiar
▪ Could that be that we have met before?
▪ You remind me of someone
▪ Don’t I know you from last year at Yolima’s birthday party?

Making introductions

▪ I would like you to meet my cousin Angela / my pleasure to meet

your cousin
▪ Let me introduce my Fiancé Robert / how do you do Robert
▪ This is my friend Martin, Martin this is my step – Mother Martha
/ nice to meet you Martha
▪ Hey, teacher. meet my son Steve. He wants to learn English too/
it’s a pleasure to meet you Steve. Your mother told me a lot
about you

▪ Asking information

▪ What have you been doing with yourself all this time?
▪ Where have you been hidden?
▪ Where have you been keeping yourself?
▪ What’s cooking
▪ So, what’s the story?
▪ Anything new?
Asking for acquaintances

o Have you heard anything from Adriana?

o Have you seen Yolima lately?
o I wonder what have happened with Yoleidy
o What’s up with Patricia?
o Do you know anything about the next English class?
o Did you know that Yolima has her daughter in class?
o Did you know that our teacher got married?

Talking about friends and acquaintances

▪ The last I heard, the teacher won the lottery

▪ I lost touch with my best friend
▪ Didn’t we have fan in that summer camp?
▪ Didn’t we have a good time in the last class?
▪ Don’t you miss your mother?
▪ Those were the good old days
▪ Those were the good all times
▪ Wasn’t the food in Sara’s hose delicious?
▪ Wasn’t the cake in the teacher’s birthday awful?

Asking about past experiences

o What have you been doing with yourself all this time?
o What have you been up to? Anything interesting?
o What happened after you took that trip to Spain?
o I’m dying to hear about your new relationship
o I’m anxious to hear about your new job

Introducing experiences

• Guess what happened? / what?

• Guess what? I don’t know what?
• You will never guess what happened to me in L.A
• The most interesting thing happened to me the other day
• Let me tell you about what happened while I was in the
hospital
• What happened on your trip to Chile?
• What happened on your vacation when you went to France?
• How did your visit to NY go?