Task 1

Introduce  yourself and others in formal and informal situations.  Engage in small talk.  Exchange personal information in oral and written form.  Exchange information with colleagues.

Build sociolinguistic  awareness of registers and cross-cultural differences.  Brainstorm previous cultural and linguistic knowledge.  Develop skills to start a conversation and keep it going.  Use appropriate strategies to acquire information about people from recordings, readings, web pages, blogs, cards, etc.  Associate  jobs and responsibilities they involve.

I’m… Nice to meet you! How do you do? I’m from… My (email) is… What do you do? Do you (live) in…? I’m Argentinean. She’s a CEO in Siemens / systems analyst  . How was your flight? I’d like to… Can I……..? Where exactly do you work? I’m doing reasearch in..... Hmm.....I see... How about you? Nice party, isn’t it? An engineer usually works with...