Introductions and

Greetings
By: Team Teaching
Mam Yeni and mam Ivo

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Making introductions and greetings

Making introductions to other people in

accordance with business etiquette

Learning Objectives
Learning Focus

1. To know how to initiate a

conversation

2.To master the way to establish

relations
Task 1 Making self-
introductions
Part 1 Discussion
1. Read the two pictures and work out

 What are they doing?

Introductions and greetings

 How are they doing?

shake hands, smile, make

eye-contact, bend body,
exchange business card

 What are they saying?

Glad to meet you

 Steps for making introductions and greetings
in English

Speaker A:
--- Hi ! (greeting)
 My name is/ I am Meimei. ( presenting one’s
name)
 Nice to meet you. (showing willingness
for the meeting)
Speaker B:
---Nice to meet you, too ! (responding with
showing happiness)
 My name is/ I am Linda. ( presenting one’s name
)
Good morning! (afternoon, evening)
How do you do? /How are you?
Good/Nice/Glad/Pleased to see/meet you!
What a pleasant surprise!
Haven’t seen you for some time.
Long time no see!

Ways to greet each other

How are you doing?
How are things with you?
How is everything (going with you)?
How are you getting on?
How are you keeping?
How have you been?

How are you?

Fine, thank you. And you?
Very well, thanks. And you?
Not too bad, thanks.
All right, thanks.
Just so so.
Same as usual.
Not very well ， I’m afraid.
Can’t complain.

Responses to greetings
Practice with partners as you are at a
business meeting, where you are strangers to
each other.
To sum it up
Not only verbal devices should be
employed, non-verbal devices are
also required in self introduction,
such as hand shake, smile, bend
body, offer business card, and etc.
Situation one:
Suppose you are Ms/Mr Lee from Singapore.
You have never been to Fujitsu conference
before.
Introduce yourself formally to the
receptionist.
Situation two:
Suppose you are Ms/Mr Johnson from
Chicago.
You came to the annual conference of ABC
Company last year and met many friends at
this year’s meeting. Greet the receptionist.
Group discussion:

Making introduction is a common

practice in business career. How can
we do that?

Here are some tips:

Introduce the visited one to the visiting
one first.
Introduce the junior positioned one to the
senior one first.
Introduce the younger one to the elder
one first.
Introduce the male to the female first.
After conducting introduction, the
introducer usually should find an excuse
as to leave the new acquaintances to
chat.
If there are people who are
different in ages, sex,
positions and etc, you
1.Study the examples in the box.

Situation :
Introduce Ms/Mr Smith to your sales
manager, Ms/Mr Richards who is from
Sydney. Ms/Mr Smith is from HongKong and
works for the Shanghai Bank.
Part 2 Language focus
work in groups, make dialogues according to
the following situations in a proper way, and
remember to use the expressions we learnt.
Situation One:
A kowns B and C, but B doesn’t know C.
Introduce B to C.
Situation Two:
A kowns B but doesn’t know C. Introduce C
to A.
Situation Three:
Situational dialogues:
IntroduceMs/Mr Smith to your sales
manager, Ms/Mr Richards who is from
Sydney. Ms/Mr Smith is from HongKong
and works for the Shanghai Bank
Steps:
greeting---responding to greeting---
introducing other people---giving
information about other people---the
other two introducing each other
In this project, we learnt:
1. How to properly make a self
introduction as to establish a relationship.
2. How to properly make others known
each other by an introduction.
3. In communication, non-verbal devices
are required and important.

Sum-up
1. Make dialogues according to the steps
we learnt in class.
2. Learn all the names of countries and
cities by heart.

Assignment