Greetings

Greetings

Rini:"Hi, Tara."
Tara:"Hi, Rini."
Rini:"How are you?"
Tara:"I'm fine, thanks. And you?"
Rini:" I'm fine too, thanks."

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Greeting is an act of communication in which human being intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other.
Some expressions you can use to greet other people

- Formal greeting:
- Good morning (until about lunch time, or before 12 a.m.)
- Good afternoon (12-16p.m.)
- Good evening (until about 9 p.m.)
- Good morning, Sir/Madam

- Informal greeting
- Hi, Lizzy!
- Morning, Jim!
- Hello

- Initilal greeting:
- How are you?
- How’s it going?
- How are you going?
- How’s life?


- Responding to initial greeting:
- Very well, thank you and how are you?
- I’m good/ okay/ alright.
- Very well, thank you.
- Oh, pretty good.
- Not too bad, thanks.
- Fine, thanks.
- Excellent.

- Pre-closing:
- Ok then…
- I’ve got to go now
- So, I’ll see you next week
- I think I’d better be going now
- Well, it’s time for me to leave
- I think it’s already late at night
- I must be going home

- Closing/leave taking:
- Goodbye (formal/informal)
- Bye-bye; bye; good bye
- See you later
- See you soon
- See you tonight
- Good night (after 8 p.m. or retiring to bed)
- Good night, Dad/ Mom

- Responding of leave taking:
- See you
- Take care
- Fine
- Ok
- Alright
- Good night, dear

Introducing oneself and other people
• Introducing oneself
- Let me (allow me to) introduce myself. I’m …(Rini)
- Hi, my name’s …(Rino)
- Hello, I’m Ratna. How do you do?
- Good morning, Sir. I’m Rini your new secretary.

• Responding
- Hello, I’m …(Rina)
- Hi Rino. I’m Sinta.
- I’m Rama. How do you do?
- Good morning, Rini. Pleased to meet you.

• Introducing someone to other people
- Please let me introduce the keynote speaker for this occasion, Ms. Rebecca Coogan
- Jelita, I’d like you to introduce my brother buyung. Buyung , introduce my friend Jelita.
- Reno, this is Marni. Marni, this is Reno.

Example in dialog
Greeting and leave taking
Rini:”Hello, Charlie.”
Charlie:” Hello, Rini.”
Rini:”How about our task?”
Charlie:” What? Can you repeat it again?”
Rini:” Ok, how about our task?
Charlie:” It is not yet finish.”
Rini:” So, what will we finish our task?”
Charlie:” At Sunday. Do you want?”
Rini:” Ok. Well, it’s time for me to leave. See you tomorrow.”
Charlie:” See you. Bye.”

Introducing someone to other people
Charlie:” Hi, Rini. We meet again.”
Rini:” Hi, Charlie. Yeah, glad to see you again.”
Charlie:” M e too. How’s life?
Rini:” Great.”
Charlie:” By the way, please meet my girlfriend Gina. Gina, this is Rini my friend.
Rini:” Nice to meet you, Gina.”
Gina:” Nice to meet you too, Rini.”