14 th NTRCA Exam Preparation. (Math)

Lesson 2: Revision: Introductions, Greetings and Farewells

Objectives
On completion of this lesson you will be able to-
♦ respond to the situations involving introductions, greetings and farewells.

Read the following text carefully and try to understand the situation
Mrs. Fatema Karim is attending a conference on TESOL in New York. TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Participants from all over the world have come. It’s tea- break on the first day of the conference. Mr. Brown comes up and introduces himself to Mrs. Karim.

2.1. Answer the following questions orally
i) Who have come from all over the world?
ii) Why have they come to New York?
iii) Who introduces himself to Mrs. Fatema Karim?

Dialogue
Practice the following among yourselves
Mr. Brown : Hello! May I introduce myself. My name is Douglas. Douglas Brown.
Mrs. Karim : How do you do, Mr. Brown? I’m Fatema. Nice to meet you.
Mr. Brown : Nice to meet you too. Shall we sit down somewhere and talk?
Mrs. Karim : Sure. Let’s sit over there.

Read and Note
Read the following
When there’s nobody to introduce you, say
May I introduce myself. My name is (or I’m)
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In answer you may also say-
Glad/ Nice to meet you.

2.2 Answer Orally
i) What is Mrs. Fatema Karim doing in New York?
ii) What is TESOL?
iii) Who introduces himself to Mrs. Fatema Karim?
iv) How does Mr. Brown introduce himself?

Dialogue
Practice the following among yourselves
1.
Hello, Shuman. How are you?
Fine, thanks. How are you?
Fine.
2.
Good morning, Raj.
Morning, Kamal. How are you?
Fine, thanks. And you?
Fine. thank you.
3.
Hello, Mishu. Meet my sister Sheela.
Nice to meet you, Sheela.
Nice to meet you too.

2.3. Exercise
Make Sentences/ dialogues with the following expressions.
1. Hello. : ----------------------------------------.
2. See you later. : ----------------------------------------.
3. Good-bye. : ----------------------------------------.
4. Good night. : ----------------------------------------.
5. How do you do? : ----------------------------------------?
6. How are you? : ----------------------------------------?
7. Good afternoon. : ----------------------------------------.
8. Nice to meet you. : ----------------------------------------.