Meeting 2

CHAPTER 1
Meeting People (Self Identification, Spelling and

Pronunciation)
OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson you should be able to:
• Give greeting to other people formally or informally
• Make an introduction to other people
• Respond to the introduction
• Answer questions about somebody identity
• Describe somebody identity
• Ask and answer question on how to spell words or names
• Ask and answer questions on how to pronounce words and
names
STUDY THESE CONVERSATIONS THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS
TASK 1
Teacher : Hello class good morning. How do you do?
Class : Good morning Mom. How do you do
Teacher : This is the first day so I’d like to introduce myself. My name
is
Namira Reinata, but you can call me Rei. I’m an English
teacher here. What is your name guy?
Gea : My name is Gea Innayah Verina
Teacher : How do you spell your middle name?
Gea : It is i-n-n-a-y-a-h
Teacher : Okey, and how old are you boy?
Billy : I’m seventeen Mom
Think of them in the conversation
1. How to make better introduction?
2. What sentence that have been used for greeting?
3. What sentence that have been used for introduction?
4. What should you do to make new colleagues feel welcome.
Here are two rules for making introductions:
A lower ranking employee

is introduced to a higher
ranking employee.
Higher
Status Position
A younger person is
Age introduced to an older
person.
Responding to Greetings: General
When someone you already know greets you, there are several ways to
answer. Usually, for how questions, you give short answers that explain your
feelings in general. For what questions, you give short answers that explain
your activities in general. Use these answers with friends-people you know well,
and acquaintances-people you don’t know as well as friends but who are not
strangers.
Examples: A: Hi. How are you? A: Hi. How’s it going? A: What’s new?
B: Fine. B: Well. B: Nothing.
Fine, thanks. It’s going well, thanks Nothing much
Not bad. Great. Not much.
I’m well, thanks.
Great!
LANGUAGE FOCUS
INFORMAL INDIVIDUAL INTRODUCTIONS

David Ryan : Hello, David Ryan, Sales Manager.”
Kimy Lee : Hello, Kimy Lee, Marketing Manager, pleased to meet you.
David Ryan : Nice meeting you. OR
Pleased to meet you, (with a slight emphasis on the word
“you” OR One can simply nod and smile).
Remember that a firm handshake is important. No “dead fish” handshakes ,

please
SEEING PEOPLE AGAIN

DR: Nice to see you again, Mr.Ryan. How have you been?
KL: Fine, and you.? How has your business been?
Note: Do not use ”Nice to meet you again”. The verb ”to meet” is only
used for the first meeting.
TASK 2
What would you say in this situation? Write down the exact words
you’d use
1. The customer services manager, Mrs Hanada, doesn’t know Tinna
Meris, the new export clerk.
……………………………………………………………………………
2. Your boss says to you, ‘This is Tony Rivera. He’s visiting us from
Maluku’.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
3. Tony Rivera says, ‘Hi. I think you know one of my collegues:
Carina Byai’.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
4. You’ve been introduced to someone by name, but later in the
conversation you can’t remember the person’s name.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
5. You enter an office full of stranger one morning. Someone asks if
they can haelp you.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
6. A visitor arrives after travelling a long distance to see you.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
7. Your visitor looks thirsty.
………………………………………………………………………………
…
TASK 3
Work with 2 classmates. One of you is speaker A, the other two are
speaker B and speaker C. Speaker A introduces speaker B to speaker
C. Use your real name.
POSITIONS DEPAERTMENTS
Manager of Sales International Sales Department
Assistant Manager Personnel Department
Administrative Assistant Shipping Department
A : , I’d like you to meet , this

is
Name B Name C Name C
______________
Name B
B : How do you do, ?
Name C
C : How do you do, ? It’s nice to meet you
Name B
A : is the of
Name B Position department
B : What do you do?
C : I’m the
Position
B : I’m sorry. What do you do ?
C : I’m the
Position

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CHAPTER 1

Meeting People (Self Identification, Spelling and

STUDY THESE CONVERSATIONS THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

Here are two rules for making introductions:

A lower ranking employee

INFORMAL INDIVIDUAL INTRODUCTIONS

Remember that a firm handshake is important. No “dead fish” handshakes ,

SEEING PEOPLE AGAIN

A : , I’d like you to meet , this

B : What do you do?

B : I’m sorry. What do you do ?

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