国际商务师英语辅导:更多了解
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更多了解(Effective Question and Answer Techniques)
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!
Responses
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?
Same ol‘。
Awful. /Couldn't be worse.
Jobs
What do you do?
I'm a teacher/lawyer/nurse. (profession)
I work in finance/waste management/show business. (field of business)
I'm in marketing/human resource/executive administration. (function)
I work for the ABC Corporation. (employer)
I work for myself at the moment. (self-employed)
I look after the children. /I'm a homemaker.
I'm between jobs right now. (unemployed)
How long have you been with them?
How do you like it (your job)?
How's business?
Family
Are you married?
What does your husband/wife do?
Do you have any kids?
How old are they?
Are they at school/at college/working?
Do they still live at home?
Spare time
What do you do in the evenings/on weekends?
Where do you spend your holidays?
What do you do in you spare time?
Do you like movies/gardening/sport/cooking?
Origins
Where do you #e from?
Where did your family #e from?
Where were you brought up?
How young were you when you moved to New York?
Which part of China were you born in?
Sample Dialogue
A: What do you do? (question)
B: I'm self-employed. (answer)
A: That's great! I always want to do that. (#ment)
B: Well. It's a very hard job too. (added information)