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When you are finished with this lesson go to the Introductions Activity

Business English:
Introductions

When introducing colleagues, coworkers, customers and/or clients to each other in a business setting it is important to pass along information about their job title or function at their company.

The structure of an introduction is like this:

1. Introduce your guest:

May I introduce Mr. Anthony Kim from Kookmin Bank?

2. Introduce the other person to your guest:

Mr. Kim, this Janice Andersen.

3. Describe the other person's job function:

She's responsible for international logistics.

Formal:

May I introduce [name] from [company]?

Informal:

I'd like you to meet [name] from [company].

	Formal:	Job Function
She's +	responsible for +	pricing our underwriting business
He's +	in charge of +	negotiating our shipping rates
I'm**	Informal:	training our sales representatives
	takes care of +	our purchasing department
		hedging our raw material costs.
** you can also use this format for introducing yourself

Now add the responses you learned in the Greetings Section

Initial Greeting
Formal:
How do you do?	*I'm pleased to [finally] meet you.**
	*It's nice to [finally] meet you.**
Informal:
Hi,	Nice/good to meet you.
Hello,	Pleased to meet you.
Response to the Greeting
Formal:
How do you do?	It's nice to meet you too.
	I'm pleased to meet you too.

Informal:
How do you do?	Nice/Good to meet you too.
Hello,	Pleased to meet you too.
Hi, (very informal)
* finally makes the greeting more cordial and friendly

The complete dialog would go like this:

You: May I introduce Anthony Kim from Kookmin Bank?
You: Mr. Kim, this is Maurice Gerard. He's responsible for our air cargo division.
Mr. K: How do you do. I'm very pleased to meet you Mr. Gerard.
Mr. G: I'm pleased to meet you too, Mr. Kim.
** depending on the country and culture, conversation may remain formal using Mr./Mrs./Ms./Dr. etc.

Now you are ready for the Business English Introductions Activity page

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