Project One

Introductions and Greetings

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 Learning Objectives
 Introduce ourselves and someone

 Asking about someone

 Exchanging personal information

 Describing people appearance

 Learning Focus
1. Introduction and greetings

2. Names and titles

3. Countries and nationalities

4. Appearance
PAY ATTENTION AND READ

 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?

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 STEPS OF INTRODUCING OURSELVES IN ENGLISH
 Speaker A: Hello, my name is Elizabeth
Mandel.
 Speaker B: Hi, my name is Charles Chang.

 Speaker A: Where are you from, Mr Chang?

 Speaker B: I’m from China. How about you,
Miss Mandel?
 Speaker A: I’m from The US, I’m American.
 Speaker B: Nice to meet you.
 Speaker A: Nice to meet you, too.
 Ways to greet each other
 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!
 Responses to greetings
 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.
 EXERCISE 1. Role Play

Practice with partners as you are at a

business meeting, where you are
strangers to each other.
STEPS OF INTRODUCING SOMEONE IN ENGLISH
SOME EXPRESSIONS WE CAN USE
 MATCH THE INFORMATION
A B
-How do you -C-H-A-N-G
pronounce your last
name?
-Excuse me, what’s
-It’s Mandel, with the
your first name
again? accent on ‘del’.
-How do you spell -Well, everyone call
your last name? me Chuck.
-What do people call
you? -Oh, it’s Amy.
SPELLING
 EXERCISE 2. Role Play

Situation :
Introduce Mrs/Mr Smith to your sales
manager, Mrs/Mr Richards
 Mrs/Mr Smith is from HongKong and
works for the Shanghai Bank.
Mrs/Mr Richards is from Sidney
Australia
 Describing Someone
 Clerk: Good afternoon, may I help you?
 Jean: Yes, I’m looking for someone. His name is
Martin Bock. I’m afraid I missed him.
 Clerk: Well, what does he look like?
 Jean: Let’s see. He’s about 35, I guess. He’s pretty tall
with red hair
 Clerk: Are you Jean Taylor?
 Jean: Yes, that’s right.
 Clerk: He asked you a few minutes ago. I think he’s in
the restaurant.
 Jean: Thanks, I’ll go and look for him.
 Question For Describing People
HAIR
What color is her hair? Light
brown.
GENERAL APPEARANCE She has dark brown hair.
What does he look like? He’s pretty
tall with red hair How long is her hair?
Does he wear glasses? Yes, he It’s medium length
does
Does he have mustache? No, he
doesn’t
AGE HEIGHT
How old is he? He’s How tall is she?
about twenty. She’s fairly short.
He’s in his thirties. She’s 170 cm tall.
 EXERCISE 3. Role Play

Situation :
You are looking for your friend in the
restaurant
 Ask the officer about his / her
appearance