Talking About Self
A.   Greeting Someone
| 
Greetings | 
Responses | 
| 
• Good morning. 
• Good afternoon. 
• Good evening. 
• How nice to see you 
• Hello. 
• How are you? 
• How do you do? 
• How’re you doing? 
• Hi! | 
• Good morning. 
• Good afternoon. 
• Good evening. 
• Yes, it’s been so nice. 
Hello. 
• Fine, thanks. 
• How do you do? 
• Not bad. 
• Hi! | 
 Examples in dialogue:
Dialogue 1
Ranti meets her teacher, MrBakri at the post office.
Ranti :Good afternoon, Sir.
MrBakri : Good afternoon. You are ….
Ranti :Ranti, Sir. My name is Ranti. How are you?
MrBakri : I am fine, thank you. And how about you?
Ranti : I am fine, too.
MrBakri : Well, Ranti. I have to go now. Pleased to meet you.
Ranti : Pleased to meet you, too, Sir.
B.    Parting Someone
| 
Partings | 
Responses | 
| 
• Good night. 
• Goodbye. 
• See you later. 
• Bye | 
• Good night. 
• Goodbye. 
• See you. 
• Bye. | 
 Examples in dialogue:
Dialogue 2
Andi : Good morning. My name is Andi.
Denias : Good morning Andi. I’m Denias.
Andi :Denias, this is Adib. We were classmates the Junior High School.
Denias : Hi, Adib. How do you do?
Adib : How do you do.
Andi : By the way, did you join pencaksilat extracurricular activity in the Junior High School?
Denias : Yes, I did.
Andi : Oh, that’s great. Adib and I have never joined it before.
Adib : We hope you can help us.
Denias : Sure.
Andi : Okay, see you this afternoon.
Adib : See you Denias.
Denias :See you.
C.  Introducing Yourself and Introducing Someone
| 
Introducing Yourself | 
Introducing Someone | 
| 
• First let me introduce myself. 
• My name is …. 
• Allow me to introduce my self. 
• I’m … 
• Excuse me my name’s… 
• How do you do? My name is …. 
• Hi! I’m … 
• Hello! My name is … 
• Good morning. My name’s … | 
• I would like to introduce you to …. 
• Let me introduce you to … 
• This … 
• Allow me to introduce …. 
• I’d like you to meet … 
• Do you know … 
• Oh look, here’s Peter. 
• Peter–Jeny, Jeny– 
Peter | 
Example in dialogue:
Stacey: I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Stacey. (hold out hand to shake)
Carl: Hi Stacey. I’m Carl.
Stacey: Hi Carl. So, how do you know Jane?
Carl: Oh, Jane and I used to work together at a coffee shop.
Stacey: Oh, you mean when you were working in Japan?
Carl: That’s right. And how do you know her?
Stacey: Actually, Jane is my cousin. Our moms are sisters.
Carl: No way! You two don’t look anything alike.
 D.   Genre: Recount Texts
- Social function : to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining
- Generic structure
– Orientation : provides the setting and introduces participants
– Events : tell what happened, in what sequence
– Re-orientation : optional-closure of events
- The Characteristics of Recount Text:
- Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.
- Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.
