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INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH Conversation 01

HELLO. Welcome to the 'Meeting and Greeting' Tutorial. I am Chris, your tutor for this module.

This tutorial will teach you the polite ways to greet English speaking people, and alsowarn you of the wrong (impolite) ways which you should avoid .

Examples of both formal and informal greetings will be shown, and by clicking on thephrase or sentence you will be able to hear me speaking the greeting.

In the Thai language the word "SAWASDEE" is used as a polite greeting at any time of day. In the Englishlanguage the part of day must be included.

An English person would say

"Good morning" before 12.00. "Good afternoon" after 12.00 and before 18.00. After 18.00 they would say "Good evening".

"Good night" would be used only when leaving and is never used as a greeting even late atnight.

A greeting could also begin with "Hello" or "Hi" but for an English person "Hey", as used by many on the Internet,would only be used by the most poorly educated, very low class persons. Please do not behave as the low-class do.Educated or high class English people would use "Hey!" only in an aggressive manner.

"HEY! Stop doing that!""HEY! Come back here!"

In Thailand the word "Khun" is used as a very polite form of address, but when speaking English it should never betranslated directly as "you". To an English person "You" is very impolite and can be taken to be an insult, insteadyou must use different words when addressing male and female persons.

A male would be called "sir" and a female "madam" or ("miss" for a younger single woman).

When speaking to those of a much higher status "madam" can be spoken differently "Ma'am" as if the word has noletter 'd'.

The English people are very lazy in the way that they use their language.

They would say "Morning. OK?" or even just "Morning" meaning "Good morning. How are you?"

Instead of saying "I am fine thank you, and how are you?" they would probably only say "OK? You?".

It would not be taken as an impolite reply but I recommend that always you use the full English greeting and reply.

Now it is time for us to look at some everyday English conversations.

Meeting someone who you know

FORMAL GREETING FORMAL REPLY INFORMAL GREETING INFORMAL REPLY

Good Morning. How are you? I am fine thank you, and how areyou?

Morning. How's it going? OK? And you?

I have not seen you for a long time. Yes, I have been away working in It's been a long time. Yes been working away.

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I have not seen you for a long time. Yes, I have been away working inEurope.

It's been a long time. Yes been working away.

You are looking good. Thank you. I have done a lot ofwalking in the mountains.

You look good. Thanks. Done lot's of walking in themountains.

Hello. I saw your sister yesterday.She said that you were home.

Yes. She told me that she had seenyou.

Hi. Saw your sister yesterday. Saidyou were back.

She told me you met

How are your parents? Fine thank you. How are yourparents.

How's your parents? Great, and yours?

Hello. Where are you going to today? I am going to college in Khon Kaen. Hi. Where are you off to? College in KK.

Which College do you go to? Khon Kaen Vocational College. Which College are you at? KVC.

What will you study today? I will study English and IT. What do you do today? English and IT.

Which is the easier IT or English? Oh! IT of course, English is sodifficult.

What's easier? IT. English is hard.

Why is English harder? The alphabet and all the vocabularyis so difficult to learn.

What's hard about English? Alphabet - and the words

Shall meet at the restaurant for lunchtoday?

That would be nice, I have lunch at12.

Want to have lunch? OK. I start at noon

Which restaurant shall we go to? The one with the nice coffee shop Ithink.

Where'll we go? The place with the coffee shop Iguess.

I must go now or I will be late forCollege.

That's alright. I understand. I'll seeyou at lunch-time

Got to go now or I'll be late. No problem. See you at lunch.

Goodbye Goodbye Bye-bye Bye-bye

Meeting someone who you do not know

FORMAL GREETING FORMAL REPLY INFORMAL GREETING INFORMAL REPLY

Good Morning. My name is Chris.What is your name please?

I am pleased to meet you. I amThidarat.

Hello. I'm Chris. What do I call you. Nice to meet you, I'm Thidarat.

I am from the City of Birmingham inEngland. Are you Thai?

Yes I am Thai. I come from KhonKaen. Which is in North East Thailand.

I'm from Birmingham in England.You're Thai?

Yes I'm Thai from Khon Kaen inIsaans.

Birmingham is an industrial city isKhon Kaen industrial too?

Yes. We have many factories, but weare still close to the countryside.

Birmingham's an industrial city. Howabout Khon Kaen?

Yes. Many factories, but we're nearthe country.

What is your occupation? I do not work yet I am still a student.What is your job please?

What do you do for a job? I don't work. I'm a student. What'syour job?

I am an engineer, but now I amtaking a holiday touring in Thailand.

What type of engineer, please? Doyou design roads and bridges orsomething smaller?

I'm an engineer, but I am on holidayin Thailand.

What sort of engineer? Roads andbridges or small stuff?

Much smaller than roads and bridges.I work with microchips

That sounds very complicated to me.I am studying IT.

Much smaller. Microchips. Oh! So complicated. I study IT