SOCIALIZING

SOCIALIZING

By Nurkhalilah Atiqah

• ​Hello.../ Hi...

• Good morning (before 12 pm)

• Good afternoon (after 12 pm)

• Good evening (after 3 pm and before going to bed)

• Good night (when going to sleep)​

• Good/ nice to see you again

• I'm glad/ happy/ pleased to see you​

• Goodbye, I hope to see you again

• ​Thank you for coming, have a pleasant day

• Goodbye,

• I must go now

• Catch you later

• See you later/ soon​

• Goodbye. It's a pleasure to have met you.​

Good byes/ Farewell

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​​Greetings​

Possible Greetings and Responses

When meeting someone formally for the first time, we shake their hand and say "How do you do" or "Pleased to meet you.

• Fine, thanks. And you?

• Very well. And you?

• ​Not too bad, thanks.

​Responses

• Hello, David. How are you?

• Hi, Lee. How have you been?​

• ​Good morning, Miss Shila. How are things?​​

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​Greetings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEJhW0_gqA​

​Watch this video.

Fill in the Blanks

Think of the most suitable reaction to the following phrases.

"How are you?"

Fill in the Blanks

Think of the most suitable reaction to the following phrases.

"Pleased to meet you".

Fill in the Blanks

Think of the most suitable reaction to the following phrases.

"See you next month".

https://wordwall.net/play/31758/522/479​

​You're at a conference drinks party. Match the comments and replies.

Multiple Choice

Please _________ me for interrupting you, I didn't realize you were busy with someone else.

• forget

• forfeit

• forbid

• forgive

Multiple Choice

I'm very ________ that I'm late but there is a train strike on at the moment.

• sore

• sorry

• sorrow

• sorrowful

Multiple Choice

I know I shouldn't have made those remarks about your work and I hope you know how deeply I _______ what I said.

• review

• regret

• respect

• restore

Multiple Choice

I must ________ your pardon, I mistook you for somebody else.

• bid

• bide

• beggar

• beg

Multiple Choice

If it helps to put things right, please let me take _______ everything I said earlier.

• again

• back

• in

• across

Open Ended

Choose the correct answer.

I hope you'll _________ (sorry/ forgive) me for being late.

Open Ended

Choose the correct answer.

I would like to _______ (apologize/apologies) for my bad behaviour.

Open Ended

Choose the correct answer.

I am very ________ (excuse/sorry) that I am late but my alarm didn't go off.

Open Ended

Choose the correct answer.

Please accept my ________ (sorry/apologies) for being late.

Open Ended

Choose the correct answer.

I am ________ (sorry/excuse) to trouble you, but could you turn the music down?