English Greeting Expressions - expressões para saudação

English Greeting Expressions - uma introdução

1. English Greeting Expressions
There are many ways of greeting
people, both formal and informal

2. General greetings (Formal)
•Hello!
•How are you?
•How are you doing?
•How is everything?
•How’s everything going?
•How have you been keeping?
•I trust that everything is well.

3. General greetings (Informal)
•Hi.
•What’s up?
•Good to see you.
•How are things (with you)?
•How’s it going?
•How’s life been treating you?

4. Greeting a person you haven’t
seen for a long time (Formal)
•It has been a long time.
•It’s been too long.
•What have you been up to all these
years?
•It’s always a pleasure to see you.
•How long has it been?
•I’m so happy to see you again.

5. Greeting a person you haven’t
seen for a long time (Informal)
•How come I never see you?
•It’s been such a long time.
•Long time no see.
•Where have you been hiding?
•It’s been ages since we last met.

6. The Responses
•I’m fine
•I’m Good
•Not too bad
•I’m good, What about you?

7. Simple Dialogue
Robert: Hi, I'm Robert Chartrand.
Bill: Hi. I'm Bill Pellowe. Nice to meet you.
Robert: Nice to meet you, too. What do you
do?
Bill: I'm a university teacher. How about you?
Robert: Me too! What university do you teach
at?
Bill: I teach at Kinki University. And you?
Robert: Oh, I teach at Kurume University

8. Pair Practice
A: Hi Corey.
B: Hey, Jennifer. Good to see you. (hug)
A: You too. How've you been?
B: Busy, you?
A: Pretty good. How's your new job?
B: It's okay. There's a lot to learn. What's
new with you?
A: Not much. The kids are back at school.

9. EXPRESS A NEW DIALOGUE
WITH YOUR CLOSE FRIEND
MAKE YOUR OWN WORD USING THE
EXAMPLE

10. GOOD JOB