GIVING REGARDS

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 389.

OPTIMISTIC REPLIES

THE WAYS TO ASK PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR LIFE

1. How are you?

2. How are you doing?

3. How are things?

4. How is you father these days?

5. How are you getting on?

6. How goes it?

7. How's business?

8. How is your mother keeping?

1. Great, thanks.

2. Grand, thank you.

3. Very well indeed, thank you.

4. Fine, thank you.

5. Quite well, thank you.

6. Thank you, pretty good.

LESS OPTIMISTIC REPLIES

7. Not bad, thanks.

8. Might be better, I'm afraid. Thank you, anyway.

9. So-so; Thanks.

10.Fifty-fifty. Thank you.

1. My best regards to your family.

2. Give him my regards.

3. My best wishes to her.

4. She asked to be remembered to you.

5. Remember me to them.

6. Pass my love to your mother.

7. Kiss her for me.

IT'S BEEN LONG

1.

- Thank you, Mr. Bright. I'm glad to be back.

- Oh, it's been long, have you been ill?

- No, I have been up North for a month.

- Where was that?

- Glasgow. I got back the day before yesterday.

2.
- Come in and sit down, Dolly. We haven't seen much of you lately.

- No, I've been away on holiday.

- Where exactly?

- Edinbourgh, I've got a cousin there.

3.

- How nice to see you again, Linda. Where have you been? Home?

- No, I've been visiting relations.

- Whereabouts?

- I went to Sterling to see an uncle of mine.

4.

- You're quite a stranger. Have you moved or something?

- No, I had a few weeks in Scotland.

- Where did you go?

- Aberdeen. I stayed with my brother.

5.

- Oh, if it isn't Bill. It's a small world. Where have you been all this time?

- Glad to see you Chris. I've been away on a business trip.

6.

- It's lovely to see you again. Welcome home.

- Thanks. I've been missing you, Daisy dear. It's nice to be at home.

7.

- Good morning, Mr.Wise. Welcome back.

- Glad to see you looking so fit.