Greeting people and saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
Here you will learn different English greetings and goodbyes. Saying hello and goodbye can be very easy in English, there are many options. There are formal options and more informal ways to greet people.
or
👨🦰 How’s it going? (Irish)
🧔 Pretty good, and you?
or simply
👧 Hello.
👨🦱 Hello, Hi.
1️⃣ For friends and family you can choose from :
👧 Hi.
👨🦰 Hi. How are you?
👧 Nice to see you.
👨🦰 Nice to see you also.
or
👱♀️ How are you getting on?
👩🦰 Fine (great), thanks.
👱♀️ Great to see you again.
👩🦰 Yeah and you.
2️⃣ For more formal occasions you should use:
🤴 Good morning.
👸 Good morning
or
👳 Good Day (depending on the time of day) or May I help you? How do you do?
👳♀️ I am well thank you. And you?
👳 Pleased to meet you.
👳♀️ Pleased to meet you also.
When leaving somebody again you have many choices and you can choose formal or informal farewells depending on the relationship with the person or people.
📌Formal :
👱♀️ Goodbye.
🧓 Goodbye.
👵 Thank you.
👨 Thank you also.
👴 Nice to have met you.
👩💼 It was nice to meet you too.
On Friday afternoon we usually say:
🧝 Have a nice weekend.
🧝♂️ Yeah, same to you.
📌Informal: Bye-bye or Bye or See you or Cheers or Thanks or Catch up soon
Replies to all of these can be varied:
Bye, Cheers, See you, Take care
This two-part greetings and introductions exercise is ideal for introducing phrases for greetings, making introductions and saying goodbye. 1. In pairs, students take it in turns reading the full dialogue aloud. They read the dialogue again, now playing the other character. 2. After a lot of practice, they complete the same dialogue according to their own identities. 3. They will learn it by heart and perform it in front of the whole class.
Hi Josh, my name is Emily
Hi, I'm Josh. What's your name?
Pleased to meet you too
Pleased to meet you
I'm from England
Where are you from?
How old are you?
I'm seventeen years old
My hobbies are tennis and karate
What are your hobbies?
I am a student
What do you do?
Oh, I have to go to class now. Bye!
Ok, goodbye
Hi ___, my name is ____
Hi, I'm ____. What's your name?
Pleased to meet you too
Pleased to meet you
I'm from ______
Where are you from?
How old are you?
I'm _______ years old
What are your hobbies?
My hobbies are ____ and ____
What do you do?
I am a ______
Oh, I have to go to class now. Bye!
Ok, goodbye
Good morning Sasha
Good morning Paul
How are you today?
I'm fine, thanks
Sasha, I'd like to introduce you to Luke
Luke, this is Sasha, Sasha, this is Luke
Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you too
Where do you come from?
I come from France
Ok, see you later
We must be going now
It was nice meeting you Sasha
It was nice meeting you too
Good morning ______
Good morning _____
How are you today?
I'm fine, thanks
______, I'd like to introduce you to _____
_____, this is _____, _____, this is Luke
Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you too
Where do you come from?
I come from ______
Ok, see you later
We must be going now
It was nice meeting you _____
It was nice meeting you too