1. Unit 1 Greeting and Introducing People

2. Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears
Session 1
Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears

3. Section I
Talking Face to Face

4. Lead-in Read and translate the business cards
and passport in Section I.

5. greeting people and giving responses
Speak out —
greeting people and giving responses
Greetings at the first meeting:
Fine/Very well, thank you. And you?
How are you?
How do you do.
How do you do?
Nice to meet you, too.
Nice to meet you.
Pleased/Glad to
meet you, too.
Pleased/Glad to see you.

6. greeting people and giving responses
Speak out —
greeting people and giving responses
Greetings when
meeting again
Responses
Hello. How are things with you?
Quite well. And
you?
How is everything?
Not too bad.
How are you doing?
What are you doing
(up to) these days?
Very well/Fine
/Good, thank you.
Nothing particular.

7. greeting people and giving responses
Speak out —
greeting people and giving responses
Greetings when
meeting again
Responses
Haven’t seen you for
ages. How are you?
Fine/Very well/OK,
thank you.
Fancy seeing you here, Lily!
Yeah, fancy that.
Nice to have you with us, Ann. Please make yourself at home.
Thank you, I will.

8. exchanging personal information Here is my _____________.
Speak out —
exchanging personal information
Here is my _____________.
(business) card
This is my _________.
Thank you. Here is _____.
name card
mine

9. Speak out — saying good-bye Pleased/Glad to have met you.
Have a nice day.
Take care.
So long.
Bye.
I must be off now.
Pleased/Glad to have met you.
See you later.

10. Speak out — self-introduction
Sample
sentences
A. Mr. Ballman, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Li Tiegang, manager of the company.
B. I’m Robert Miller from
Canada.
C. Before we start (First of all), let me introduce myself.
D. Hello, may I introduce
myself?

11. used at the first meeting:
Sentences
used at the first meeting:
1. Hello, nice to meet you.
2. How do you do, Professor Lu?
3. Welcome to our department, Dick.
4. Nice to meet you, Mr. Green.
to our company.

12. used when meeting again:
Sentences
used when meeting again:
1. Hi, long time no see, Dick. Do you
remember me?
2. So glad/pleased to see you again. How are you?
3. How is your project going?
4. Hello, Jack. Haven’t seen you for
ages. How’s everything going?

13. used when meeting again:
Sentences
used when meeting again:
5. What a nice surprise!
6. What brings you here?
7. How are things going in your company?
Not bad.
8. How about you?
Just doing fine/OK.

14. Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues.
Sample dialogues
Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues.
Pair work

15. Section II Being All Ears

16. Read the printed materials
Dialogue
Pre-listening task
Read the printed materials
in Listen and Decode
in ONE minute.

17. Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book.
Dialogue
While-listening task
Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book.

18. Dialogue While-listening task
Listen to the tape one sentence after another, taking notes during the pause.

19. Dialogue Post-listening task Do the exercises in Listen and Decode
and Listen and Respond.

20. Read the printed materials
Passage
Pre-listening task
Read the printed materials
in Listen and Read
in THREE minutes.

21. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.
Passage
While-listening task
Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

22. and Listen and Conclude.
Passage
Post-listening task
Do the
exercises in
Listen and Match
and Listen and Conclude.

23. Assignments 1. Pair work: Make up dialogues for
greeting and introducing people
referring to the dialogues in the
Workbook.
2. Preview Passage I and the
exercises.