“Greeting”

Greeting and Leave Taking

“Greeting”

Greetings in the form of greeting in the form of words or phrases used to introduce oneself or to greet others.

Very diverse forms of greeting like “Hi/Hello” is used when meeting someone. “How are you?” used to express one’s attention to ask for news.

Good morning/ afternoon/ evening/ night used to be congratulated in respect of time. “Happy birthday” is used for greeting associated with a particular event.

Some words/phrases in English that can be used in greeting are the following:

Some words/phrases in English that can be used in greeting are the following:

• Good morning
• Good afternoon
• Good evening
• Hello, how are you?

Formal Greetings

• Hello
• Hello, good afternoon.
• Good evening
• I’m fine. Thank you
• Very well, thank you

Responses

Responses

Responses

• Hi, how’s life?
• What’s news?
• How’s everything?
• How’s business?
• Good to see you.

• Terrific. And you?
• Just fine, thanks.
• Great, thanks.
• Pretty well. What about you?

Informal Greetings

Leave Taking

Informal Leaving

Formal Leaving

Used for formal situation.

Leave taking:
Responses:

Informal Leaving Used for relax situation

• Bye now
• Be seeing you too
• Thanks and you too
• I will
• Sure, I am and you too

• So long for now
• Be seeing you
• Have a nice day
• Take care of yourself
• Be careful, please

Leave taking

Responses

Two types of greetings

Three other types of greetings

Ideas: New greetings

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

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