4. Greetings in English
Time factor
Morning
Noon
Afternoon
Evening
Night
Mainly greetings have three different purposes:
i ) to establish a contact with another person,
ii ) to recognize his/her existence, and
iii ) to show friendliness.
We should remember that greeting is always
returned.
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Greeting words Responses
Good morning . Good morning .
Good evening . Good evening .
How are you ? Fine , thanks . And you ?
How nice to see you ! Yes , it’s been a quite while .
What a pleasant surprise ! Really !
Hello , Bob ! Hello , Kitty !
Hi , Jolly ! Hi , Runa !
How’ve you been ? Pretty good .
What’s new ? Nothing .
How you doing ?*¹ Not bad .
Long time no see !*² Yeah !
Greeting words for leaving Responses
Good night Good night
Take care, bye Bye - bye
See you tomorrow See you, bye
Good bye Good bye
Greetings in English
Vocabulary
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Exercise:
1. Are these greetings formal or informal ?
a. Hello! I’m Amin Kagri .
b. Hi! Nice to see you .
c. How do you do ?
d. It’s my pleasure to meet you .
e. Long time , no see !
2. Where and when we can use such expressions of 1 (a – e)?
3. Act it out -
a. greet someone for receiving in a party
b. greet your parents after coming back from work in the evening
c. greet a new student of your class
4. Work with a partner to greet formally and informally for receiving and leaving a
number of guests.
Greetings in English
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Introducing
Introducing
Self Self By an introducer
In a group one to one by a common person
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Self introducting in a group
a. greets the group
b. tells his name (usually full name)
c. gives his personal details (profession, liking/disliking , etc
d. thanks the group.
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Self introducting one to one
Person A Person B
A greets B B responds greetings of A
Gives full name and Responds ‘how do you
adds ‘How do you do?’ do’ and gives full name
Says ‘Nice to meet you’ Responds in the similar
or the like and address properly fashion
Continues the conversation Continues the conversation
Ends with thanks and goodbye Ends in similar fashion
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Introducting by an introducer
The introducer is the common between
the two unknown persons; it’s his/her
responsibility to ntroduce the other two
telling somenthing about each person to
other.
Then the introducing persons carry one
as we do between one to one introduction
in presence of the introducer.
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Exercise:
1. How can you introduce yourself to a stranger in the airport?
2. Introduce -
a. yourself to a stranger in a party
b. your fiancé(e) to your parents
c. your friend to your colleague
d. a new student to your teacher
e. a special guest to the audience present in a party
3. How they are different ?
a. ( i ) May I introduce my self ? I’m … … ( ii ) Hello , I’m … …
b. ( i ) Good-bye Mr./Mrs./Ms/Miss … … ( ii ) Bye , darling !
c. ( i ) This is Paul Strang. ( ii ) Let me introduce Mr. Paul Strang …
d. ( i ) Pleased to meet you. ( ii ) The pleasure is all mine
4. Practice a coversation for introducing between Mr. Ismail and Ms. Sumana.
