Introducing People and Answering an Introduction
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 472.
| Introducing yourself | Answering an introduction | Introducing someone | |||
| Formal | |||||
| | May I introduce myself. My name is... I'm a... Allow me to introduce myself... | | Pleased/glad to meet you, Mr... How do you do, Mr... We were looking forward to see you. We've heard so much of you. I'm delighted to meet you. | | Mr. P., I'd like to introduce you... Ladies and gentlemen, I have a pleasure in introducing... Allow me to introduce you Doctor Gray. Let me introduce, Mr... May I introduce Professor Brown, our Dean |
| Neutral | |||||
| | Hello. I'm Hunt. Excuse me, my name is... | | Nice to meet you... How do you do? Pleased to meet you. Pleasure is all mine. | | Mary, I'd like you to meet our new secretary. Her name is... This is my wife, Mary. Mr. Brown, this is Mr. White; Mr. White, this is Mr. Brown. |
| Informal | |||||
| | Hi, I'm Fred. Hello, I'm your cousin from Australia. | | Hi, Fred. How are you? Glad/pleased to meet you, Fred. Hi, dear, glad to see you. | | This is Fred. Have you meet him before? Dad, meet Fred. Oh, look. Here is Fred. Come and meet Fred. |
Ex. 1. Identify the type of situation (formal, neutral, informal) and introduce:
ˇ yourself to your groupmates
ˇ a close friend to your mother
ˇ a group mate to the English teacher
ˇ a senior colleague to your friend
ˇ your teacher to your parents
ˇ your bank manager to your brother
ˇ yourself to a new group mate (colleague)
ˇ one guest at your party to another