Unit 1 Meeting people Aim: To greet formally To introduce formally To find suitable topics

Class process Greeting people Introducing oneself and others Meeting a client at the airport Finding topics for small talks Role play

Part I Greeting people  1. Language focus  Good morning/afternoon  Goodbye  How do you do?  How are you?  How are you doing?  How are things with you?  Nice to meet you.  Glad/Pleased to meet you.  It ’ s lovely to see you.  Welcome to our company

2. Listening and oral practice  2.1 Formal and informal greetings  Formal and Informal greetings a. listen to the conversations and decide true or false b. listen to the conversations and fill in the blanks c. Pair work: make dialogues according to the given situations 1) You are a receptionist 2) You are greeting your colleagues 3) You are at an interview 4) You are meeting a client at the airport 

 2.2Questions and replies during greetings  a. You are going to hear six questions. Please match them by writing down the numbers of the questions in the proper places.  b. listen to six questions and write down each of them

Part II Introducing oneself and others  1. Language focus  Introducing oneself (page 10)  Introducing other people (Page 11) If you ’ re ready, I ’ d like to introduce you to meet … May I introduce XXX to you? I ’ m wondering if you ’ ve met XXX. There ’ s someone I ’ d like you to meet. Please allow me to introduce XXX to you.

2.Listening and oral practice  2.1 Introducing oneself  a. Listen to the self-introduction during an interview and fill in the blanks  b. Pair work: look at the two business cards on page 5 and choose one of them and play your role.

 2.2 Introducing others  a. listen to the introductions about three famous persons, guess and write down their names  b. Listen to the introduction again and fill in their personal information.  c. suppose three of you meet at a business conference, please introduce yourself to each other.

Part III Meeting a client at the airport  1. language focus

Language focus  I ’ ve been looking forward to meeting you.  It ’ s a great pleasure to have you here with us.  You must be our long expected guest, XXX.  I ’ m delighted to make your acquaintance.

Language focus  It’s a great pleasure to have such an enthusiastic group to participate in our project.  We appreciate very much that you have come to visit our city in spite of the long and tiring journey.  We have a tight schedule for your short visit. I hope you don’t mind.  I’m sure our business dealings will develop productively.

2. Listening and oral practice  2.1 Listen to the conversation and fill in the blanks on page 7  2.2 Listen again and answer the questions  2.3 Role play the client and the host in the dialogue with your partner

Part IV Small talks  1. Listen to a conversation between an American client Mr. Harry Smith and a Chinese manager Wang Lin. Write down the questions in the proper places.  2. Pair work. Find some topics you can talk about during small talks when you meet people in business and make dialogues according to each topic

Part V Role-play  An international business conference is held in New York. Businessmen from different cultures are introducing themselves and talking.

Self – evaluation  G=Very good F=Fair N=No  Communication skills  1. Content  2. Language  3. Manners