Greetings Goodbyes and Small Talk LS Intermediate Stan

Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk L/S Intermediate Stan Creel, Fall 2016

Idioms of the Day • What’s up? What are you doing? • What’s new? What are you doing? • How’s it going? How are you feeling?

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• What greetings did you hear? • What greetings did Obama use when meeting strangers? • What greetings did he use with the people he was more familiar with?

Informal Greetings and Common Responses What’s up? What’s going Nothing much on? Not much Just chilling Long time no see It’s been a while What are you up to? What’s new? What’s happening? How’s it going? How ya doing? (How are you dong? ) How’ve you been? Good Fine Okay

Greeting people you haven’t seen for a long time Response Greeting ● ● Long time no see! Where have you been? I haven’t seen you in forever! It’s been way too long! ● Yeah, it’s been a while! ● Oh, I’ve been around. ● Seriously! When was the last time we hung out? ● I know! We should hang out soon.

Combinations It is common for English speakers to combine multiple greetings. The key is to not repeat greetings that have the same meaning. Ex. Angie: Hey Erica, how’re you? Wow, long time no see! Ex. Victoria: Hey girl, what’s up?

Leavetaking • What is leavetaking? • Leavetaking is what you say when exiting (or leaving) a conversation. • It has two parts: • Pre-Goodbye • Goodbye

Pre-goodbye + Goodbye Pre-goodbye ● Well, I gotta go. ● Anyway, I should get going. ● Oh my goodness, I’m so late! ● I have to ______ (study/work/head home) Oh, okay Or All right Goodbye ● Bye! ● See ya (later) ● Catch ya later ● Take care/Take it easy ● Have a good one!

Casual Goodbyes Goodbye • Nice seeing you • Take it easy • Take care • *See ya later Response • You too • *Bye

Formal Greetings Greeting • Hello Response • Hello • How are you? • Fine, and you? • Nice to meet you, too.

Practice! When do we use informal greetings?

Practice With a partner, discuss and write down how these employees would greet their boss? Why do you think they would say this?

Practice What about these guys?

Would the greeting change in this situation?

Activity!

Next Week: Small Talk! • Be prepared to talk about your weekend! Today’s Power. Point will be available on the class website. Class Website: https: //ufvsesl. wordpress. com/