Unit 1 Greeting and Introducing People

Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears Session 1 Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears

Section I Talking Face to Face

Lead-in Read and translate the business cards and passport in Section I.

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings at the first meeting: Fine/Very well, thank you. And you? How are you? How do you do. How do you do? Nice to meet you, too. Nice to meet you. Pleased/Glad to meet you, too. Pleased/Glad to see you.

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings when meeting again Responses Hello. How are things with you? Quite well. And you? How is everything? Not too bad. How are you doing? What are you doing (up to) these days? Very well/Fine /Good, thank you. Nothing particular.

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings when meeting again Responses Haven’t seen you for ages. How are you? Fine/Very well/OK, thank you. Fancy seeing you here, Lily! Yeah, fancy that. Nice to have you with us, Ann. Please make yourself at home. Thank you, I will.

exchanging personal information Here is my _____________. Speak out — exchanging personal information Here is my _____________. (business) card This is my _________. Thank you. Here is _____. name card mine

Speak out — saying good-bye Pleased/Glad to have met you. Have a nice day. Take care. So long. Bye. I must be off now. Pleased/Glad to have met you. See you later.

Speak out — self-introduction Sample sentences A. Mr. Ballman, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Li Tiegang, manager of the company. B. I’m Robert Miller from Canada. C. Before we start (First of all), let me introduce myself. D. Hello, may I introduce myself?

used at the first meeting: Sentences used at the first meeting: 1. Hello, nice to meet you. 2. How do you do, Professor Lu? 3. Welcome to our department, Dick. 4. Nice to meet you, Mr. Green. to our company.

used when meeting again: Sentences used when meeting again: 1. Hi, long time no see, Dick. Do you remember me? 2. So glad/pleased to see you again. How are you? 3. How is your project going? 4. Hello, Jack. Haven’t seen you for ages. How’s everything going?

used when meeting again: Sentences used when meeting again: 5. What a nice surprise! 6. What brings you here? 7. How are things going in your company? Not bad. 8. How about you? Just doing fine/OK.

Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues. Sample dialogues Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues. Pair work

Section II Being All Ears

Read the printed materials Dialogue Pre-listening task Read the printed materials in Listen and Decode in ONE minute.

Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book. Dialogue While-listening task Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book.

Dialogue While-listening task Listen to the tape one sentence after another, taking notes during the pause.

Dialogue Post-listening task Do the exercises in Listen and Decode and Listen and Respond.

Read the printed materials Passage Pre-listening task Read the printed materials in Listen and Read in THREE minutes.

Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks. Passage While-listening task Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

and Listen and Conclude. Passage Post-listening task Do the exercises in Listen and Match and Listen and Conclude.

Assignments 1. Pair work: Make up dialogues for greeting and introducing people referring to the dialogues in the Workbook. 2. Preview Passage I and the exercises.