I. Topical vocabulary

Unit 1

Conversation Topic: PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION.

Greeting People and Responding

Greetings

Responses

Formal

- How do you do, Mr. Brown. - Good morning, Dr. Sampson. How are you? - Good evening, sir (ma'am).

- How do you do, Mr. White. - Good morning. - I'm fine, thank you. - Good evening.

Neutral

- Hello, Paul. How are you doing? - Hello. It's a nice evening, isn't it?

- Hello, Ted. I'm doing well, thank you. - Fine, how are you? (What about you?) - It's lovely, indeed.

Informal

- Morning, Jeam. Are you doing Okay? - Hi, Freddie. What are you up to these days? - Hey, Jack. How's it going? - Cheerio!

- Not bad. You? - Great, thanks. What about you? - Couldn't be better! Yourself? - Can't complain. How about you? - Fantastic! - Lousy!

Introducing People and Answering an Introduction

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 are a pleasure in introducing... - Allow me to introduce you Doctor H... - Let me introduce, Mr...
	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.	- Marry, I'd like you to meet our new secretary. Her name is... - This is my wife, Marry. - 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? - Good to meet you, F. - Hi, dear, glad to see you.

- This is Fred. - Dad, meet Fred. - Oh, look. Here is Fred.

EXERCISES

1. Read the following illustrative dialogues

Greeting people

- Good morning, Mr. Roberts. How are you?

- Oh, good morning, Dr. Wagner. I'm very well, thank you. And you?

- I'm fine, thank you.

- How are you?

- Not bad. But my daughter's not well today.

- Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

- Hello, Al! How are you?

- Fine, thanks. Nice to see you again

Asking the name

- Excuse me, aren't you Henry Pollard?

- Yes, that's right.

- Excuse me, is your name Fred Andrews?

- No, I'm sorry, it isn't. It's Jake Barker.

- I'm sorry.

- Excuse me, are you Fred Andrews?

- Yes, I am.

- Oh, hello! I'm Alice Watson.

- Oh, yes. How do you do?

- How do you do?

- What's your name?

- Catherine. What's your name?

Introducing yourself and other people

- Professor Andrews, this is Dr. Baxter.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

- Sally, do you know Steve?

- No, how do you do?

- Hello, Sally. I'm glad to meet you.

- Tony, I'd like to introduce my friend Mary Parker.

- Oh, hello. I've heard so much about you.

- Hello.

- May I introduce myself? My name is Susan Roper.

- Oh, hello. I'm John Lee. I'm sorry, er, I didn't catch you name.

2. Make up short dialogues introducing people in different formal and informal

Situations.

1. At a Conference (formal).

2. At Work formal).

3. At the Theatre (neutral).

4. At an Exhibition (neutral).

5. At a Party (informal).

I. TOPICAL VOCABULARY

name surname/family name/second name/ married /maiden name

forename/last name name, v

first name/given, personal/Christian name call, v

patronymic/middle name give/bear/use a name

full name be be christened, v

pet name be be baptized, v

My full name is George Samuel Harris. George is my first name.

Samuel is my second name. Harris is my family name.

And what is your name? How is it spelt?

origin be from, v foreign, a race, n

come from, v foreigner, v

immigrant, n native, a

Where are you from?

Where do you come from?

birth be born, v place, n

give birth (to), v date, n

be alive, v region, n

be dead, v area, n

birthday, n district, n

When and where were you born?

What is your native town / country of residence?

marital status not (un) married, a marry, v

single, a get married, v

divorced, a be married, v

separated, a be engaged, v

widowed, a divorce sm., v

bachelor, n give a divorce

- Are you married, Ann?

- Yes, I'm married to a military man. We got married two years ago.

relations by birth parents, n aunt, n

father/dad/daddy, n uncle, n

mother/mum/mummy, n nephew, n

daughter, n niece, n

son/sonny, n sister, n

grandparents, n brother, n

grandfather/grandpa/granddad, n cousin, n

grandmother/grandma/granny, n twins, n

grandchildren, n triplets, n

granddaughter, n orphan, n

grandson, n

- How many are you in the family?

- We are four. I have a mum and a younger brother.

- That's Lucy. She is a relation of mine.

- Nice to meet you.

relations husband, n mother-in-law, n

by marriage wife, n father-in-law, n

spouse, n son-in-law, n

fiancé, n daughter-in-law, n

fiancée, n stepsister, n

relative, n stepbrother, n

be related, v stepparents, n

- Are you related to Mr. Dickinson?

- Yes, he is my father-in-law.

sex male, n member of the opposite sex

female, n gentleman, n

man, n lady, n

woman, n

age baby, n young, a

toddler, n old, a

kid, n middle-aged, a

child, n elderly, a

teenager, n be of one's early (late) 40 s.

adult, n be under (over) 40

grown up, n at the age of

generation be (come) of age

John has (got) two elder brothers, Jim and Tom.

Jim is three years older than John. Tom is the eldest in the family.

- Is your daughter of age yet? How old is she?

- No, she is 18. They come of age at 21 in Great Britain.

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