Speaking

Formal Conversation

Greetings		Introductions		Good-byes
Sample sentence	Sample response	Sample sentence	Sample response	Sample sentence	Sample response
Hello, Mr. Smith	Hello.	Dr. White, I’d like to introduce you to Rachel.	It’s a pleasure to meet you. / Pleased to meet you.	It was nice meeting you.	It was nice meeting you too.
Hello, doctor.	Hello.
Good morning.	Good morning.			It was nice to see you.	Same to you.
Good afternoon.	Good afternoon.
Good evening.	Good evening.			Have a good day.	Thank you. You too.
How are you?	Fine, thank you.			Good night / Goodbye.	Good night / Goodbye.

Informal Conversation

Greetings		Introductions		Good-byes
Sample sentence	Sample response	Sample sentence	Sample response	Sample sentence	Sample response
Hey. Hi.	Hey. Hi.	Ann, this is Jim. He’s in my class.	Hi Jim.  Nice to meet you.	Nice meeting you.	You too.
How are ya?	I’m good. All right.			Take it easy.
How are things?	Pretty good.	Hi. My name’s John.	I’m Dave. Nice to meet you.	Take care.
How’s it goin?	OK. Not bad.			I’m off.	OK, bye.
How ya doin?	I’m doin good.			I gotta go.	See ya. See ya later. Bye.
What’s up?	Nothin much. Not a whole lot. Nothin. Nothin special. Not much.			So long.
What’s new?				See ya.
What’s happenin?				See ya later.
What are you up to?				Bye.
What’s goin on?