Speaking How do you greet people in your country? What do you say when you greet people in English?

Unit 1. Working in the IT industry.
Lesson 1. Meeting people.
Speaking 1. How do you greet people in your country? What do you say when you greet people in English?

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eading 2. Complete these dialogues with the words in the box.

1. 
   Natasha: Hi, my (1) __________ Natasha.
   

Khalid: Pleased to (2) ________ you. I’m Khalid Ali.
Natasha: Pleased to meet you, (3) _________.

2. 
   Philip: Good morning. (4) __________ your name?
   

Ahmed: I’m Ahmed. And (5) _______ are?
Philip: My name’s Philip. (6) ________ to meet you.

3. 
   Tim: Hi everybody. (7) ________ is Ingrid.
   

All: Hi!
Tim: Ingrid, this (8) ________ Ahmed, Linda, Mohammed and Mansoor.
Ingrid: Nice meeting you (9) _______.
Linda: Likewise.
Tim: (10) _________ to the team and good luck.

Speaking 3. Work in small groups. Practice introductions. Follow the instructions below.

1. 
   Introduce yourself.
   
2. 
   Introduce a new team member.
   

Listening 4. Listen to this dialogue and choose the correct answers.
Kathryn: Karim, what do you do?
Karim: I’m a (1) website developer / network administrator. Who do you work for?
Kathryn. I work for CISCO. I’m a (2) system analyst/website analyst there.
Where are you from, Karim?
Karim: I’m from Kuwait. I work for Microsoft there. And where are you from, Kathryn?
Kathryn: I’m from the (3) UK/US but now I live in Qatar. Do you know where Gienda’s from?
Karim: She’s from the US.
Kathryn: And what’s her job?
Karim: She works for (4) IBM/DELL. Her job is to set up new systems.

Grammar. Present tense of “to be”

Affirmative form	Negative form	Interrogative form
1. I am a student. 2. You are a student. 3. He(she) is a student. It is a pen (a dog). 1. We are students. 2. You are students. 3. They are students.	1. I am not a student. 2. You are not a student. 3. He (she) is not a student. It isn’t a pen (a dog). 1. We are not students. 2. You aren’t students. 3. They aren’t students.	1. Am I a student? 2. Are you a student? 3. Is he (she) a student? Is it a pen (a dog)? 1. Are we students? 2. Are you students? 3. Are they students?

USE:

1. 
   To say who somebody is or something is:
   

I’m Sam.
You’re/We’re/They’re from Uzbekistan.
He’s/She’s an English teacher.
It’s in the US.

2. 
   To ask personal questions:
   

Where are you from?
What’s his name?
What’s her job?

3. 
   To talk and ask about ages, occupations, prices, the time, feelings and states, nationality and colors:
   

I’m 16. How old are you?
How much is this? It is 30$.
I am Karakalpak. Is he Uzbek?
Her eyes aren’t black, they’re green.

5. Complete the spaces with is, are or am.

a. Computers ……….. expensive.

b. Jasur ……….. a student.
c. It …….. hot today.
d. We …………. interested in shopping.
e. My sister ……… a doctor.
f. You …….. in my team.
g. The train ……. late again.
h. I ……. bored.

Reading 6. Complete this email with am, is, are, their, our or my.

Dear Colleagues
My name (1) _______ Jessica Martin and I (2) ________ the IT Support team leader. The IT Support team members (3) __________: Mahmoud Al Banawy. Eli Ibrahim and Guido Pitteri. Mahmoud (4) __________ our network administrator. Eli and Guido (5) __________ system maintenance officers. (6) ________ job is to keep our systems going. (7) ________ job is to support you.
(8)________ contact number (9) _________ 675 567 567.
Best regards
Jessica Martin

Speaking 7. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about your jobs, companies and
nationalities.

Example: A: Where are you from?
B: I am from …… .

Writing 8. Write a reply to the email in 6. Introduce yourself and three people in your
group.