chapter 1

chapter 1

1.  Greeting

Formal greeting	Responses	Informal greeting	Response
Good morning	Good morning	Hello / hi	Hello / hi
Good afternoun	Good morning	What’ve have you been up to ?	Oh, no too much
Good evening	Good evening		Fine / great
How are you ?	I’m fine, Thank		Pretty good
How do you do ?	How do you do		Oh, not bad

2.  Leave taking

Formal	Informal
Good morning / afternoon / evening	Bye
It was a pleasure seeing you	See you ( later )
Good bye	See you again
Good night  ( after 08.00 pm )	later

3.  Introducing

·       Introducing ourselves

Formal	Informal
How do you do , I’m Jonas	Hello , I’m Suzan
How do you do , my name is Suzan	Hi, my name is Suzan
May I introduce myself, I’m Terry
Good morning , my name is mr. Green

·       Introducing someone to everybody else

-          Please allow me to introduce you to mr. Green.

-          May I introduce my secretary, Widy ?

-          Let me introduce you to mr. Jaya.

·       Approaching the person you meet, whom you have never met before

-          It’s ( Mr. Fauzan ) , isn’t ?

-          Excuse me , are you ( Mr. widy ) ?

Response

-          Yes, that’s right

-          Yes, that’s right, and you must be ( Mr. Green )

4.  Thanking

Showing gratitude	Responding
Thank you very much	You are welcome
I’m grateful for your kidness / goodness/ help	With pleasure
I appreciate your	That is all right
That’s very kind of you	Don’t mention it
Thank you from the bottom of my heart	Not at all
	All right

5.  Simple present tense

Simple present tense is used to talk about things in general , weuse simple present to say something that happen everyday as a habit or daily activity, or something that is true in general.

Example :

-          My father goes to work everyday

-          The world is round

6.  Personal pronoun

Subject pronouns	Posessive adjective	Posessive pronouns	Object pronouns
I	My	Mine	me
You	Your	Yours	You
He	His	his	Him
She	Her	Hers	Her
It	Its	Its	It
We	Our	Ours	Us
You	Your	Yours	You
they	their	theirs	Them

Example ;

-          Josan is a doctor

-          The satchel is on the desk

-           He is a doctor

-          It is on the desk