useful for beginners

1. Introductions and Greetings
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2.  What are they doing?
 How are they doing?
 What are they saying?
Introductions and greetingsIntroductions and greetings
shake hands, smile, makeshake hands, smile, make
eye-contact, bend body,eye-contact, bend body,
exchange business cardexchange business card
Glad to meet youGlad to meet you

3. Steps for making introductions and greetings
in English
 Speaker A:
 --- Hi ! (greeting)
 My name is/ I am Maya. ( 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 )

4. 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!

5. How are you?
 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?

6. 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.

7. 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.