今天小编给同学们整理了BEC商务英语初级口语素材——个人情况,希望对大家能有帮助。一起来看看吧!

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 come from?

Where did your family come 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. (comment)

B: Well. It’s a very hard job too. (added information)