The document provides a comprehensive guide on English greetings, introductions, and sharing personal information. It outlines various formal and informal ways to greet others, as well as farewells and useful phrases for introducing oneself and others. Additionally, it covers how to give personal information such as age, name, address, and contact details.

1. Learning English
Greetings, introductions and personal
information

2. How to greet people in English
1. Formal style:
- Good morning
- Good afternoon
- Good evening
2. Informal style:
- Hello
- Hi
- Hey
- Good to see you

3. Other ways of greeting people
• Long time no see!
• It s been a while!
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• How are you? How are you doing? How-ya-doin?
”I m fine, thank you!/ I m great, thank you!/ I m very well, thank you!/
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Fine, thanks!”
• How have you been?/ How-ya-bin?
• How have you been doing?/ How-ya-bin-doin?
”Good, thanks!/ Very well, thanks!/ Great, thanks!/ Not so good/ that well!
• How is it going?
• How is everything?
” It s ok, thank you!/ Everything is fine/great, thank you!/Everything is going well”
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4. Other ways of greeting people
• Everything Ok?
• Everything all right?
• All good?
• You doing ok/ all right?
• How’s your day?
• How’your day going?
• What’s new? Not much
• What have you been up to?

5. Farewells
• Common Ways to Say Goodbye in English
• 1. Bye
• 2. Bye bye!
• 3. See you later, See you soon or Talk to you later
• 4. I’ve got to get going or I must be going
• 5. Take it easy
• 6. I’m off
• Formal and Business Goodbyes in English
• 7. Goodbye
• 8. Have a nice day or Have a good day
• 9. I look forward to our next meeting
• 10. Until next time
• 11. Take care
• 12. It was nice to see you again or It was nice seeing you
• 13. Goodnight

6. Introductions – dialogue 1
• A - Hi! My name’s Anna. What's your name?
• B - I’m Emma.
• A - Are you a new student?
• B - Yes, I am. I'm from Brazil. And where are you from?
• A - I'm from Spain.
• B - Nice to meet you.
• A - Nice to meet you, too.

7. Introductions – useful language
• My name is ...
• I’m...
• Let me introduce myself; I'm ...
• I'd like to introduce myself; I'm ...
• Nice to meet you; I'm ...
• Pleased to meet you; I'm ...
• Happy to meet you
• How do you do?

8. Introductions – dialogue 2
• Mike: Hi, Don.
• Don: Hi, Mike. Who’s your friend?
• Mike: Have you met Tina before?
• Don: No, I don’t think so.
• Mike: Don, this is my friend Tina. Tina, this is my colleague Don.
• Don: Hello Tina, it’s nice to meet you.
• Tina: It’s nice to meet you too, Don.

9. Introductions – useful language 2
• Cesar, please meet Nicholas
• Cesar, have you met Nicholas?
• You must be Nicholas? Yes, I’m Nicholas.
• I’d like you to meet Anna.
• I’d like to introduce you to Peter.
• Adam, this is Peter. Peter, this is Adam.
- Nice to meet you./Glad to meet you.

10. Giving personal information
• Age
How old are you?
I am 25 years old. / I’m 25 years old.
• What’s your first name?
My first name is Peter.
• What’s your surname?
My surname is Preston.
• How do you spell Preston?
It’s P-R-E-S-T-O-N.

11. Giving personal information
• What’s your middle name?
My middle name is John.
• What’s your full name?
My full name is Peter John Preston.
• What’s your date of birth?/ When were you born?
It’s July, 2, 1986, but we read It’s on the second of July 1986
• What’s your phone number?
It’s 770566891.

12. Giving personal information
• What’s your address?
• Or:
Where do you live?
• (Give the full address)
Name of the house (if there is one)
Street number and name
Town or city
County and Postcode
Country
• For example:
• Rose Cottage
20, London Road
St Albans
Herts AL9 2RS
England

13. Giving personal information
• What’s your email address?
It’s peterpreston@gmail.com
• Where are you from?/ Where do you come from?
I am from Spain./ I come from Spain.