F2F Class Notes November 10th (Ben)

Vocabulary

greetings

Chinese and Japanese people greet each other in different ways.

You are expected to answer if someone asks you…

How are you? How have you been ? How are you doing?  Is everything alright?

• How are you?
• I’m fine. I’ve been busy recently. What about you?
• Same old, same old. Nothing new, really.
• Anyway, it’s nice to see you.
• Yeah, you too.
• Well, gotta go. See you around
• See you !

“I gotta go” = I got to go = I have to go

You are not expected to answer is someone says…

Nice to see you ! Long time no see. It’s good to see you again. Haven’t seen you for a while!

You only say “How do you do?” to people you meet for the first time. The appropriate answer is “How do you do?”

• My name is Jim. How do you do?
• How do you do? My name’s Ben.

End of a conversation

• Well, it was nice seeing you again
• Yeah, same here
• Hope we can catch up again soon
• Sure, that’d be great
• Okay, gotta go. Let’s keep in touch, ok?
• Yeah, sure. No worries/ No problem
• Cool. See you around !
• See ya ! Take care. Bye bye!

To someone closer

• Okay everyone, I’ll be going. Let’s call it a day. I’ll catch you guys/ladies tomorrow.
• See you all tomorrow
• Cool, have a nice evening!
• You too, see ya

• Excuse me?
• Yes, sir?
• We’d like to order, please
• Sure, have you made your choice / selection?
• Not yet, would you mind bringing us the menus, please?
• Sure, here you go.
• —
• Are you guys ready to order?
• Do you have any recommendation?
• Sure, we have a great chicken salad ! It comes with extra toppings
• OK, I’ll have a chicken salad and fried potatoes.
• Okay, and for you?
• I’ll just have a garden salad
• Any drinks to go with that?
• We’ll just a glass of water.
• Sure. Plain or sprinkling?
• Plain please.
• Okay, so that’s a chicken salad, a garden salad and 2 glasses of plain water. Is that all?
• Yes, that’ll do. Thanks
• Great, I’ll be back with your order. Thank you.