Read the dialogues and translate them. Think if these people are friends, colleagues, if this is their first meeting or not. Play out one of the dialogues.

 

Dialogue 1

- Good afternoon. My name’s Gerry Scalia. I’d like to welcome you to TZ. This is Calre Hanah, our PR Manager.

- Hello, it’s nice to meet you all. How was your trip?

- It was OK.

 

Dialogue 2

- Hi, it’s good to see you. How was your flight?

- Not good. The plane was two hours late.

- Oh, dear. Was the hotel OK?

- Yes, it was fine.

 

Dialogue 3

- Good morning. Welcome back. How was your trip to Britain?

- It was awful.

- Oh, dear. Why?

- The trains were late and the weather was terrible.

- Were the hotel arrangements OK?

- No, they weren’t

 

Dialogue 4

- This is Mrs. Walchia.

- How do you do?

- Pleased to meet you.

- How was your journey?

- Er…

- Mrs. Walchia is from Romania.

- I’m sorry, I don’t speak Romanian.

- That’s OK, I speak English. Well, I speak a little English. My journey was good.

 

Dialogue 5

- Hi. I’m Ivan Kovacic.

- Hello. My name’s Gracie Mayers.

- Nice to meet you.

- It’s nice to meet you, too.

- Do you work here?

- No.

 

Dialogue 6

- Good morning, John.

- Good morning, Victor.

- How are you today?

- Not too bad. How are you?

- Oh, fine.

 

Dialogue 7

- Hello. How was your trip?

- It was terrible. My contact was ill.

- Oh, no!

- And the plane was two hours late.

- Oh, dear! Anyway, welcome back.

 

Dialogue 8

- This is Pat Ollis from the Rio office.

- Hi, my name is Luis Pinto.

- Pleased to meet you, Luis. Where are you from?

- I work in KRT in Mexico City.

- How was your flight?

- Fine.

 

Dialogue 9

- Excuse me, are you Mr. Peterson?

- Yes.

- I’m George Wilson from TST Systems. How do you do?

- How do you do?

- Did you have a good trip?

- Yes, thank you.

 

Dialogue 10

- I’d like you to meet Mr. Cartwright, our Director General.

- Glad to meet you, Mr. Cartwright.

- Glad to meet you, too.

- Let me introduce my secretary to you. This is Miss Johnson.

- Nice to meet you, Miss Johnson.

- Nice to meet you, too. Call me Kate.

- I also want you to meet Mr. Black. He is our Sales Manager.

 

Match the responses to the prompts.

1) Welcome to KPG.	a) How do you do?
2) Do you know any French words?	b) It was OK.
3) Good morning.	c) It’s nice to meet you, too.
4) Do you speak Chinese?	d) Thank you.
5) How are you?	e) Yes, a few.
6) It’s nice to meet you.	f) I’m fine, thanks.
7) How do you do?	g) Good morning.
8) How was your trip?	h) Yes, a little.

Fill in the gaps in the dialogue, using the following expressions.

Yes, it was too hi were journey not dear to late terrible

- (1)_____. My name is Max Trompowski.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you (2) _____.

- How was your (3) _____?

- It was (4) _____.

- Oh (5) _____. Was the plane (6) _____?

- (7) _____.

- (8)_____ the hotel arrangements OK?

- No, I’m afraid (9) _____.

- Anyway, welcome (10) _____ Brussels.

 

Study some nationalities and languages.

Country	Adjective	Person
Albania	Albanian	(an) Albanian
Algeria	Algerian	(an) Algerian
America	American	(an) American
Australia	Australian	(an) Australian
Austria	Austrian	(an) Austrian
Belgium	Belgian	(a) Belgian
Brazil	Brazilian	(a) Brazilian
Britain	British	(a) Briton
Bulgaria	Bulgarian	(a) Bulgarian
Canada	Canadian	(a) Canadian
China	Chinese	(a) Chinese
Czech Republic	Czech	(a) Czech
Denmark	Danish	(a) Dane
Egypt	Egyptian	(an) Egyptian
England	English	(an) Englishman / Englishwoman
Finland	Finnish	(a) Finn
France	French	(a) Frenchman / Frenchwoman
Germany	German	(a) German
Greece	Greek	(a) Greek
Holland	Dutch	(a) Dutchman
Hungary	Hungarian	(a) Hungarian
India	Indian	(an) Indian
Iran	Iranian	(an) Iranian
Ireland	Irish	(an) Irishman
Italy	Italian	(an) Italian
Japan	Japanese	(a) Japanese
Kenya	Kenyan	(a) Kenyan
Korea	Korean	(a) Korean
Lebanon	Lebanese	(a) Lebanese
Libya	Libyan	(a) Libyan
Malaysia	Malaysian	(a) Malaysian
Mexico	Mexican	(a) Mexican
Nigeria	Nigerian	(a) Nigerian
Norway	Norwegian	(a) Norwegian
Poland	Polish	(a) Pole
Oman	Omani	(an) Omani
Russia	Russian	(a) Russian
Scotland	Scottish	(a) Scot
Slovakia	Slovak	(a) Slovak
Spain	Spanish	(a) Spaniard
Sweden	Swedish	(a) Swede
Ukraine	Ukrainian	(a) Ukrainian
Uruguay	Uruguayan	(a) Uruguayan

Fill in the gaps in this table.

Country	Nationality	Language
Brazil		Portuguese
	British	English
China	Chinese
Egypt	Egyptian
	French	French
Hungary		Hungarian
Japan	Japanese
Russia		Russian
	Spanish	Spanish
United States		English

 

Practise in pairs. Make sure you can say your nationality and language in English.

 

Model:

- Have you been to Brazil?

- Yes, on business / on holiday.

- Do you speak Portuguese?

- I speak a little. / I know a few words.