This document provides information and examples for greetings, introductions, and small talk. It includes common greetings like "Hi" and "Hello", ways to introduce yourself and others, questions to ask like "How are you?" and responses. Sample conversations demonstrate properly greeting someone, introducing yourself, and saying goodbye. The document emphasizes keeping introductions brief and polite.

1. Self introduction
How are you?

2. • A – Hi! How are you?
• B – Hello! I am fine, and you?
• A – I m good too.
• B – Nice to meet you.
• A – Nice to meet you too.
Greetings

3. Introduce yourself

4. • Sample introduction
• Hi everyone. My name is Priya. I am from
Delhi. I am a student and studying in 12th
standard. It is nice being with all of you.
Greetings

5. • Greetings
– Hello, Hi,
– Good morning/afternoon/ evening
– Good/nice to see you again
– I am glad /happy/pleased to see you.
Greetings

6. • Note:’Hi’ and ‘hello’ are greeting words, or exclamations, that
you say when you see someone first time. The difference
between these two forms of greeting is formality. They mean
the same thing, but ‘hello’ is more formal than ‘hi’.
Greetings

7. • How are you? - Fine, thanks. And you?
• How have you been? - Very well. And you?
• How are things? - Not too bad, thanks.
• How is your family? - They are fine.
Greetings

8. • Can/May I introduce myself? My name is Ajay.
• Let me introduce myself. My name is...
• I would like to introduce myself. I am ...
• I don’t think we have met before. I am...
Introductions – introducing yourself

9. • Can/may I introduce a good friend of mine? This is ...
• Have you met...?
• I would like you to meet...
• I would like to introduce...
• I would like to introduce my friend to you.
• I want you meet...
Introducing someone else

10. • Excuse me, are you Mr...?
– Yes, that’s right.
• Hello, you must be Mrs...
• You are Mr..., aren’t you?
• Have we met?
Making contact

11. • How do you do? - How do you do?
• Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.
• Please, call me - Then you must call me...
– Note : ‘How do you do’ is defined as a polite greeting that you can use when
first introduced to someone.
Making contact

12. – Good bye.
– Bye.
– I will say good bye.
– See you later.
– See you on Monday.
Good – byes

13. • How do you do?
• How are you?
• Excuse me, are you Mr. Sharma?
• Sorry, I don’t know your name.
• May introduce myself?
• Hi everybody. My name is Ravi Vats.
• This is Ankita.
• Let me introduce you to Mr. Pankaj.
• Goodbye. It has been very interesting talking to you.
• See you. I really had a good time with you.
• I got to go now.
• I am afraid I have to leave now.
• I am afraid I must be leaving now.
Let’s practice

14. • Complete the following conversation with he most
appropriate words or phrases.
• Ravi – Excuse me, _____________ Sumit Gupta?
• Sumit- Yes, that’s ______________.
• Ravi - May I __________________ myself? I am Ravi Vats.
How do you do?
• Sumit - __________________, Mr. Ravi.
Exercise

15. • Ankita- Hello, Sonia. Mind if I join you?
• Sonia- Oh, ________________ not. Ankita.
• Ankita-_____________________ to meet you, Sonia. So how
are you finding the conference so far?
• Sonia – Actually, I have only arrived this morning.
• Ankita - All right. I..........
Exercise

16. • Priya – Sapna! Good to see you again. _________ are things?
• Sapna-Hello, Priya. Fine, thanks. Pretty busy, as always, I
suppose. Can i introduce you to a colleague of
________________ Ratna Singh? Anjali, this is Priya.
• Anjali-Nice to meet you, Priya.
• Sharaddha – Nice to meet you, too.
Exercise

17. • How are you?
__________________________________________
• How do you do?
__________________________________________
• Pleased to meet you.
__________________________________________
• It was nice talking to you.
__________________________________________
• Have a good weekend.
__________________________________________
• See you next week.
__________________________________________
• You must be Saloni.
__________________________________________
• I hope to see you soon.
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Write appropriate response...

18. Thank you