Material desenvolvido para o curso de Inglês para Turismo do Centro de Idiomas da Prefeitura Municipal de Búzios pelas professoras Simone Pepe, Francidéa Freitas e Luciana Viter.

1. Greetings
Teacher:
Luciana Viter

3. Greetings
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Hi! (less formal)
Hello!
Good Morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
How are you?
Farewells
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Goodbye (bye).
See you.
See you later.
See you next week.
Good night.
Have a nice day
(stay) (trip) ...

4. Greetings Gestures around the World

5. Other Greeting Gestures
A wave
Thumbs up
Thumbs down

6. Other Greeting Gestures
A high five
A fist bump

7. Greetings
Responses
- Fine, thanks.
More - How are you?
formal - How’ve you been? And you?
- How do you do?
- Not bad, thank
you.
- What’s up?
- Nothing.
- What’s happening?
- What’s new?
- Not much.
Less - How are you
formal doing?
- How’s it going?
- Pretty good.
- OK.
- Not bad.

8. Pre-closings
Responses
More - Well, I’m afraid I have - Thank you for
formal to go. (I’ve got to get up coming.
early tomorrow.)
- It’s been a pleasure.
- Thank you for the
advice.
- My pleasure.
- It was good
(nice) to see you.
Less - It’s getting late. I really
- See you again.
formal must go now.
- It was nice to see you. - Ok, see you.

9. Closings
Responses
More - Until the next time.
formal - Good night.
- Goodbye
- Good night.
- Have a nice (day,
evening, weekend…).
- Talk to you later.
- You, too.
- Bye. Take it
easy.
- See you later
(tomorrow).
Less - Keep in touch.
formal - Stay in touch.
- So long.
- Take care.

10. Polite Expressions (Thanks)
Thanks
Common Responses
• Thank you.
• You’re welcome.*
• Thank you so much (stronger).
• Thank you (for your help (...).
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• Thanks (less formal).
• Thanks a lot (less formal).
Not at all.
(It’s) my pleasure.
The pleasure was mine.
Don’t mention it.
• That’s ok (less formal).
• No problem (less formal).
• Any time (less formal).

11. Polite Expressions (Excuses)
Excuses
• Excuse me.
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Sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry for it.
I am so sorry.
Common Responses
• It’s all right.
• It’s fine.
• It’s ok.
• No problem.
• It doesn’t matter.
• Pardon me (more formal)
• Don’t worry about it.
• I beg you pardon (more formal) • Don’t mention it.
• I apologize for ... (more formal) • Apology accepted.

12. Reference
ESCOBAR, Albina. English Around You 1 Students Pack. 1. ed. São Paulo: Pearson
Education do Brasil, 2011. (English Around You).