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

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

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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?

Hi/Hey/What’s up!

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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?

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

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

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

I work for the ABC Corporation. (employer)

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

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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)?

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How’s business? #

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?

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Do they still live at home?

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Spare time

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What do you do in the evenings/on weekends? #

Where do you spend your holidays?

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What do you do in you spare time? #

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

Origins

Where do you come from? #

Where did your family come from?

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Where were you brought up? #

How young were you when you moved to New York?

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Which part of China were you born in? #

Sample Dialogue #

A: What do you do? (question)

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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)