Class Introductions and Greetings

Spoken English IFujian Normal University

Introduction Practice in Pairs

Question patterns:

1. What is your name?

2. Where are you from?

3. What do your parents do?

4. Do you have any brothers or sisters?

5. What do you like to do?

Answer patterns:

1. My name is _______.

2. I am from (city), Fujian.

3. My mother is a _______ and my father is a _______.

4. I have _____ brother(s) and _____ sister(s).

5. I like to ________

Dictation

1. 请你 再说一遍2. 请你说慢一点3. 请你再说一遍慢一点4. 我可以问一个问题 吗？5. Chopsticks 是什么意

思？6. Chopsticks 怎么写？7. 用英文，怎么说筷子？8. 对不起，　我不懂．9. 对不起，我不知道．

1. Could you say that again please?

2. Please speak more slowly.

3. Could you say that again more slowly please?

4. May I ask a question?

5. What does “chopsticks” mean?

6. How do you spell “chopsticks”?

7. How do you say “kuaizi” in English?

8. I’m sorry, I don’t understand.

9. I’m sorry, I don’t know.

Pronunciation Practices soft th z hard th_____

sink think zee thee

sank thank Zen then

face faith breeze breathe

mouse mouth seize seethe

1. Think both thankful and truthful thoughts on the third month.

2. Mothers and brothers breathe through their mouth and seethe through their teeth.

Greetings

Formal

1.Whole words, longer sentences.

2.Titles (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss, Dr., Prof.) and family names.

3.Polite language (like “Thank you”).

Informal

1.Contractions, short forms & sentences.

2.No titles, first names only.

3.Doesn’t require polite language.

• Hello!• Good morning!• Good afternoon!• Good evening!• How do you do?• How are you doing (today)?• How have you been?

• Fine.• Very well. Thank you.

• Hi!• How ya doin’?• How are you?• How’ve you been?• How’s it going?• What’s up?

• Great!• Terrific!• Good.• Pretty good• Not bad. • Okay. • Not too good.• Terrible.

Greetings List

Greetings List

• And you?

• It’s a pleasure to see (meet) you.

• It’s very nice to see (meet) you.

• It’s an honor to meet you.

• How about you?

• Pleased to meet ya• Nice to see (meet) ya.• Good to see (meet) ya.

Model DialogueSusan Martin: Hi! How ya doin’?

Zhang Li: Pretty good. How about you?

Susan Martin: Not bad. Nice to see you again.

Zhang Li: Nice to see you, too.

Pick 2 situations and prepare 2 dialogues.

Pick one dialogue to share with your partner to the class. • worker and boss• student and teacher• student and student• student and store clerk• child and parent• Chinese Premier and U.S. President

Wrap Up Activity

The “Find someone who..” survey

Practice using Open and Closed Questions

Closed OpenDo/Did/Does

Is/AreHas/HaveWas/Were

WhoWhat (do you think about..)

WhereWhy

WhenHow (do you feel about…)

Rules

1. Do not show your paper to your classmate. You must use English to ask questions.

2. Write down your classmate’s name by asking “How do you spell that?” Do NOT let them sign your paper.

3. You cannot sign your own name to your paper

4. Please hand in your sheets at the end of class

Homework

1. Tongue Twister practice

2. Write down a list of all the occupations that you know in English.

3. Write down a list of all the fields of study that you know in English.