I am George Smith. You can call me George.

Hi. Salam Sehat.

Selamat datang para Mahasiswa yang hebat. Apa kabar kalian. Ibu berharap kalian sehat dan tetap semangat. Ibu juga berharap, belajar dari rumah bukanlah penghalang untuk tetap belajar. Jangan jadikan Pandemi ini sebagai penghalang untuk giat belajar.

Materi kuliah Bahasa Inggris pertama adalah Introduction.

Introduction is trying or making to know something or someone at the first time. It divides  into two topics, namely : Introducing myself and Introducing others.

On this meeting, we are going to discuss self introduction. It tells who you are. When you introduce yourself,  you can use formal and informal expressions.

They are :  

1. Formal Expressions

• Please, allow me to introduce My name is William Lee
• Let me introduce myself. I am Heny
• May/can I introduce myself? I am …….
• My Name is Jaclyn                           
• I am Zaimah/My name is Jane.
• Hello, I am Mega
• How do you do? My name is Philip
• I would like to introduce myself, My name is…

Responses

• Hi/Hello Mr. William Lee
• Hi/Hello Mrs. Heny
• Hi Philipus.
• Hi/Hello Zaimah. I am Wisnu
• How do you too? I am Alfredo

It is used when you introduce yourself in a conference, formal meeting or to someone older or higher position than you

2. Informal Expressions.

• Hi. I am Regita. Nice to meet you
• I am Stefan. Happy to meet you

Responses

• Hi. I am Regita. Nice to meet you too
• Hello. I am Melany. Happy to meet you too.

 It  is used when you introduce yourself to someone who has the same age with you.

Basic Questions to answer are :

1. What is your name?
2. Where are you from?
3. What are your hobbies?
4. What are you doing now?/What is your job?/What are you?
5. What is your major in under your graduate program?
6. What is your speciality? (skill)

General Self Introduction

• Hello everybody. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Alberth Smith. I am from Singapura, but I live in Kotaraja, Abepura,Jayapura. I am studying at university of ……………as an undergraduate student in Sociology major.  There are four in my family. They are my sister and I. We love reading books. Thank you.
• Hello everybody. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Alberth Smith. I am a student of Sociology major at ……..university. now let me talk about my interest. I love fishing. I do it almost twice a week with my friends or family. We used to go to river for fishing and sometimes after fishing, we I grew up in a small village in Sentani. Thank you.

 Task I

Complete the empty spaces (Type/write in paragraph) you can add some of your information.

• My name is…………..
• I am from…………..
• Now I am studying (working as)……….
• in………….
• My interest is/are…………..
• My future plan is/are…………

                     

Task 2.

Introduce yourself. Record and send it to your college teacher.

 Baca dan Tonton Juga :

1. Self Introduction
2. How to introduce yourself