初级商务英语口语辅导：更多了解

初级商务英语口语辅导：更多了解

Lesson Two 更多了解(Effective Question and Answer Techniques)

Greetings #

Good morning/afternoon/evening. #

How are you doing? #

How’s everything going? #

How have you been? #

What have you been up to lately? #

What’s new/cooking/grilling/going on?

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Hi/Hey/What’s up!

Responses

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I’m doing very well. Thank you. How about yourself?

Okay/Not bad/All right. How are you? #

Great! Thanks. What about you? #

Couldn’t be better! You?

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Same ol’.

Awful. /Couldn’t be worse. #

Jobs #

What do you do?

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I’m a teacher/lawyer/nurse. (profession)

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I work in finance/waste management/show business. (field of business) #

I’m in marketing/human resource/executive administration. (function)

I work for the ABC Corporation. (employer) #

I work for myself at the moment. (self-employed) #

I look after the children. /I’m a homemaker. #

I’m between jobs right now. (unemployed)

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How long have you been with them? #

How do you like it (your job)? #

How’s business?

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Family #

Are you married? #

What does your husband/wife do? #

Do you have any kids?

How old are they?

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Are they at school/at college/working? #

Do they still live at home?

Spare time #

What do you do in the evenings/on weekends?

Where do you spend your holidays?

What do you do in you spare time? #

Do you like movies/gardening/sport/cooking? #

Origins

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Where do you come from? #

Where did your family come from? #

Where were you brought up?

How young were you when you moved to New York?

Which part of China were you born in?

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Sample Dialogue #

A: What do you do? (question)

B: I’m self-employed. (answer)

A: That’s great! I always want to do that. (comment) #

B: Well. It’s a very hard job too. (added information)