e) Informal
Responses to an Introduction
Hi
Harry
Pleased to meet
you, Harry
Hello Harry. I'm
really pleased to meet you.
f) Formal
Responses to an Introduction, non-equals
I'm pleased to meet
you Sally.
How do you do Mr
White. I'm pleased to meet you.
g) Formal
Responses to an Introduction, near-equals
I'm delighted to
meet you, Mr Albright. I've heard much about you.
How do you do Mr
White. Welcome to our company. I'm very pleased to meet you.
I'm sure we'll make
a good team. Can I call you Frank? Just call me Albert.
h) Informal
Converstation Starter
Sally, Harry has
just come back from Seoul.
Harry, Sally is
going to Seoul for the first time next week.
I'm sure you two
have lots to talk about.
Excuse me while I
get another drink.
i) Informal
Conversation Self-starter
+ Haven't we met
before?
- I don't think so.
Should I know you?
j) Formal
Discussion Starter, non-equals
Mr White, we would
be lost without Sally. She keeps us organized.
Sally, could you
explain the office routine to Mr White please.
Excuse me for five
minutes while I answer a phone call.
k) Formal
Discussion Starter, near-equals
Mr White, Frank
Albright is one of our key men. He knows exactly where our best business
is.
Mr Albright, Mr
White comes to us from New York. He will have lots of ideas.
You two have a
great deal to discuss.
Excuse me while I
check on an apointment
Test
Exercises
1. Make a sentence
using these words: sure ⁄ lots ⁄ talk about
2. Think of
a question for Sally to ask Harry.
3. Where does Jina
think she may have seen Mark before?
4. Who does Jina
already know?
5. What is Sally
Jones' job?
6. Think of a
question for Mr White to ask Sally Jones.
7. Make a
sentence using these words: like ⁄ introduce ⁄ to
8. What is Mr
Albright's job?
9. How does
Mr White describe his new relationship with Frank Albright?
10. Make a question
using these words: you ⁄ great deal ⁄ discuss
Vocabulary with
freqencies (121 words)
9 a, 6
about, 6 an, 1 annoy, 2 another, 2 answer, 1 anyway, 2 apointment, 1 are,
2 back, 2 be, 4 before, 2 best,
2 business,
1 but, 6 call, 1 came, 2 can, 2 check, 2 come, 2 comes, 3 company, 1
converstation, 2 could, 2 deal, 2 delighted,
1 dialogues,
2 discuss, 2 discussion, 8 do, 1 doing, 4 don't, 2 drink, 1 e, 1 equal, 2
exactly, 6 excuse, 2 explain, 1 f, 2 first, 2 five,
4 for, 6
formal, 1 friend, 4 from, 4 general, 2 get, 2 going, 2 good, 2 great, 1 ha, 2
has, 6 have, 4 haven't, 4 he, 2 heard, 2 hello,
1 here, 1
he's, 6 hi, 1 hmm, 1 host, 5 how, 17 I, 4 I'd, 2 ideas, 20 I'm, 4 informal, 4
introduce, 6 introduction, 15 is, 2 I've, 5 just,
2 keeps, 2
key, 2 know, 2 knows, 2 let, 4 like, 2 lost, 5 lots, 2 make, 7 manager, 11 me,
15 meet, 2 men, 6 met, 2 minutes,
5 miss, 34
Mr, 2 much, 1 myself, 1 near-, 2 near-equals, 7 new, 2 next, 1 no, 2 non-equals,
4 of, 2 office, 1 old, 3 on, 2 one,
2 organized,
16 our, 1 patterns, 1 perhaps, 2 phone, 2 please, 10 pleased, 2 really, 3
response, 2 routine, 2 sales, 1 saw,
2 secretary,
1 self-introduction, 1 self-starters, 1 sentence, 4 Seoul, 1 september, 2 she, 2
should, 1 situational, 2 so,
1 somewhere,
1 star, 3 starters, 1 subordinate, 4 sure, 3 talk, 2 team, 1 thanks, 5 the, 4
think, 9 this, 2 time, 38 to, 1 too, 2TV,
4 two, 4 us,
2 very, 6 we, 2 week, 3 welcome, 2 we'll, 2 we've, 1 what, 2 where, 6 while, 23
white, 2 will, 2 without, 2 would, 34 you,
1
yourself
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