Meeting 1.pptP ENGLUSH BUSSINESS FOR JOP PREPARATION

MEETING 1

1. Meeting One
Introductions and Greetings
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2. Learning Objectives
making introductions and greetings
making introductions to other people in
accordance with business etiquette

3. Learning Focus

1. to know how to initiate a conversation
2.to master the way to establish relations

4. Task 1 Making self-introductions
Part 1 Discussion

5. 1. Read the two pictures and work out

What are they doing?
How are they doing?
What are they saying?
Introductions and Introductions and
greetingsgreetings
shake hands, smile, make shake hands, smile, make
eye-contact, bend body, eye-contact, bend body,
exchange business cardexchange business card
Glad to meet youGlad to meet you

6. 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 )

7. 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!

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. Part 2. Role play
Practice with partners as you are at a business
meeting or personal meeting, where you are
strangers to each other.

11. THANK YOU