Project One

Introductions and Greetings

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 Learning Objectives

 making introductions and greetings

 making introductions to other people in

accordance with business etiquette
 Learning Focus

1. to know how to initiate a conversation

2.to master the way to establish relations

Task 1 Making self-introductions

Part 1 Discussion
1. Read the two pictures and work out

 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?

Glad to meet you

 Steps for making introductions and greetings
in English

 Speaker A:
 --- Hi ! (greeting)
 My name is/ I am Meimei. ( 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 )
 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!
 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?
 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. ( 还过得去 )
 Part 2. Role play

Practice with partners as you are at a business

meeting, where you are strangers to each
other.
Part 3. Demonstration
Part 4. Discussion on demonstration with
such questions:

1) Is there any room for improving ?

2) What suggestion would you make?

Part 5. To sum it up
Not only verbal devices should be
employed, non-verbal devices are also
required in self introduction, such as hand
shake, smile, bend body, offer business
card, and etc.
Part 2 Listening

1. Listen to the recording and then finish the convers

ation on Page 5.

2. Useful expression:
Excuse me. Are you XXX?/ is your name XXX?
Sorry for interruption.
That’s alright.
 Task 2 Saying where you are from

Part 1. Reading

 1. Read the advertisement on the book,

and answer the following question.

 Are the statements true or false?

 Suggested answer:

 1) T, 2) T, 3) F, 4) T, 5) F, 6) T, 7) T, 8) F, 9) T
 Background information
 Bogota( 波哥大 )[′bəugətə]: capital and largest city
of Colombia, which is located in central Colombia
on a high fertile plain.
 Abu Dhabi( 阿布扎比 ) [′æbu: ′ðæbi:] ： is the capit
al and second most populous city in the United Ar
ab Emirates(UAE) after Dubai( 迪拜 ). One of the
world's largest producers of oil, Abu Dhabi has acti
vely attempted to diversify its economy in recent y
ears through investments in financial services and
tourism.
 Tehran (or Teheran) [teə′ræn /-′rɑ:n] is the capital
and largest city of Iran, and the administrative cent
er of Tehran Province. Tehran is famous for its nu
merous ski resorts on the Alborz slopes, large mus
eums, art centers, and palace complexes. Tehran i
s the largest city in the Middle East and is the mos
t populated city in South Western Asia with a popul
ation of 7,404,515 and approximately 15 million in
Greater Tehran.
 Brussels [′brʌslz]: is the capital of Belgium and the
administrative centre of the European Union. This
has earned the city the title of the Capital of Europ
e. Brussels has been given its character by the co
existence of French and Flemish culture, and it is
nowadays home to nationalities around the world,
adding a cosmopolitan flavour to its atmosphere. T
he vibrant atmosphere of Brussels is further enhan
ced by picturesque medieval streets, lively square
s, beautiful boulevards, impressive monuments, sp
acious parks, cosy cafés, interesting restaurants a
nd an active cultural life.
 Munich [′mju:nik]: is the capital city of Bavari
a, Germany. It is the third largest city in Ger
many, after Berlin and Hamburg. There are
approximately 1.35 million inhabitants within
Munich. The city's motto is "München mag D
ich" ("Munich Likes You"), before 2006, it wa
s "Weltstadt mit Herz" (world city with heart)
 Kuala Lumpur [′kwɑ:lə ′lumpuə]: often abbre
viated as K.L. is the capital and the largest c
ity of Malaysia [mə′leiʒə].
 Harare [hə’rɑ:rei]: Harare (before 1982 know
n as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital
of Zimbabwe. 哈拉雷 ( 津巴布韦首都 )( 旧称
索尔兹伯里 )
 Amman /ɑ:′mɑ:n/ is the capital and largest ci
ty of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultu
ral and commercial centre and one of the ol
dest continuously inhabited cities in the worl
d.
 Jordan(/dʒɔ:dən/) is a kingdom on the East
Bank of the River Jordan.
 New Delhi is the capital city of India.
 Hawaii [hɑ:’waii:] is the newest of the 50 US states (August
21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of isl
ands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia( 中太
平洋岛群 ), occupying most of an archipelago in the central
Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States,
southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. Hawaii’s na
tural and diverse scenery, warm tropical climate, abundanc
e of public beaches and oceanic surroundings, and active v
olcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers,
biologists, and volcanologists alike.
 Part 2 Listening

1. First listening and match the guests’ names to the

office. 

Name Office
1)Anopow Beijing
2)Brown New Delhi
3)Hernandez Colombia
4)Singh Moscow
5)Narayan New Delhi
6)Yin Brussels
7)Pousset New York
2. Listen to the tape twice.

Suggested answer:

Name

1) Moscow, 2) New York, 3) Colombia,

4) New Delhi, 5) New Delhi, 6) Beijing,
7) Brussels
 Part 3 Role play

 Situation one:
 Suppose you are Ms/Mr Lee from Singapore.
 You have never been to Fujitsu conference before.
 Introduce yourself formally to the receptionist.

 Situation two:
 Suppose you are Ms/Mr Johnson from Chicago.
 You came to the annual conference of ABC Compa
ny last year and met many friends at this year’s me
eting. Greet the receptionist.
 2. Demonstration and comment.
 Task 3 Introducing other people
Part 1 Listening

1.Complete the conversation with the phrases in the box.  

Cream and sugar, please.

He works in Milan.
How are things?
Pleased to meet you, Mr Toncini.
Have a seat, Giovanni,
Do you know Brian Turner?
 Suggested answer:
1) How are you?
2) do you know Brian Turner?
3) He works in Milan.
4) Please to meet you, Mr. Tokini.
5) Have a seat, Giovanni.
6) Cream and sugar, please.
2. Role play based on the completed
conversation on Page 8. (5’)
3. Group discussion:

Making introduction is a common practice in b

usiness career. How can we do that?

Here are some tips:

 If there are people who are different
in ages, sex, positions and etc, you
 Introduce the visited one to the visiting one first.
( 向来访者介绍被访者 )
 Introduce the junior positioned one to the senior one fi
rst. ( 向高职位者介绍低职位者 )
 Introduce the younger one to the elder one first.
 （向长者介绍
年幼者）
 Introduce the male to the female first.
 ( 先向女士介绍男士 )
 After conducting introduction, the introducer usually s
hould find an excuse as to leave the new acquaintanc
es to chat.
 Part 2 Language focus

 1.Study the examples in the box.

 Situation :
 Introduce Ms/Mr Smith to your sales manager
, Ms/Mr Richards who is from Sydney. Ms/Mr
Smith is from HongKong and works for the Sh
anghai Bank.
 Situational dialogues:
work in groups, make dialogues according to the foll
owing situations in a proper way, and remember to
use the expressions we learnt.
Situation One:
 A kowns B and C, but B doesn’t know C. Introduce
B to C.
Situation Two:
 A kowns B but doesn’t know C. Introduce C to A.
Situation Three:
 Introduce Ms/Mr Smith to your sales manager, Ms/
Mr Richards who is from Sydney. Ms/Mr Smith is fr
om HongKong and works for the Shanghai Bank
 Steps:
greeting---responding to greeting---
introducing other people---giving information
about other people---the other two
introducing each other
 Sum-up
 In this project, we learnt:
 1. How to properly make a self introduction
as to establish a relationship.
 2. How to properly make others known each
other by an introduction.
 3. In communication, non-verbal devices are
required and important.
 Assignment

 1. Make dialogues according to the steps

we learnt in class.
 2. Learn all the names of countries and
cities by heart.