Meeting a Client at the Airport

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Meeting a Client at the Airport

• By MaoJIan

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Lead-in

• Q1How is the weather these days?
• Q2How is your preparation for the evaluation?
• Q3Do you have full confidence on the coming
  evaluation?

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Dialogue

• Could you tell me some useful expressions in the
  dialogue?
• foreign trade corporation
• in person
• through correspondence
• thank you for doing
• have a nice trip
• a smooth landing
• freshen up
• overcome the jet lag
• help sb. with sth
• I think I can manage myself.

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Universal Pattern

• Confirming
• Self-introducing
• Greeting
• Free chatting
• Offering help

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Confirming

• Excuse me, but arent you Mr./Ms.from?
• Excuse me, youre Mr./Ms.from...,arent you ?
• Excuse me, its Mr./Ms.from, isnt it?

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Self-introducing

• I am from
• My name is from
• Let me introduce myself. I am from
• Allow me to introduce myself. I am from

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Greetings

• How do you do?
• Nice/Glad/Pleased to meet you.
• How are you/How are you doing?

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Free Chatting

• Did you have a nice trip?
• How was your trip/flight/journey?
• Did you have a good time on your way here?
• Did you have a smooth flight?
• Would you like to have a good rest in the hotel?

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Offering help

• May I help you with?
• Would you like me to do?
• Could I do for you?
• Let me do
• If it would be of any help/use, Id be happy to
  do for you.

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Just say it.

• I need to f___ ___ after the long journey.
• We have known a lot through c____.
• Its___ ___ ___ you to a___ everything for me.
• Did you have a s___ f___?
• He will be present at the meeting ___ p___.
• I always get bad ___ l___ when I travel.

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Just translate

• 1.Excuse me ,sir,Are you Mr.White from New York?
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• 2.I'm ,from Guangzhou Textile Import Export.
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• 3.Welcome to Guangzhou ,Mr.White,our manager will
  come to greet you later at the hotel
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• 4.Did you have a pleasure trip?
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• 5.Yes,I enjoyed it very much.
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• 6.Anyhow ,it's a long way to China ,isn't it? I
  think you must be very tired.
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Just translate

• 7. But I'LL be all right by tomorrow and ready
  for business.
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• 8.Do you know where the baggage claim area is?
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• 9.How many pieces of luggage do you have?
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• 10. I wish you have a pleasant stay here.
• 11. Thank you for meeting me at the airport.
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• 12.If all is ready ,we'd better start for the
  hotel.

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Just have a try!

• You are going to make a dialogue based on the
  following situation
• LiMing, a clerk from Shanghai Machine Tools
  Factory is meeting a client named Jack Green from
  London at the airport.After the introduction and
  free chatting, he offers to help the client to
  carry the luggage.

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Attention!

• There are some general rules for introductions
  1. A man is always introduced to a woman.
  2. A young person is always introduced to an
  older person. 3. A less important is always
  introduced to a more important person.