-==EVERYDAY ENGLISH==-

[irina]

What a pleasant surprise, Swapan!

[Nahid Kaiser]

Students should also given some guidance regarding formal and informal greetings

[Bhowmik]

Nahid Madam,
Thanks,
I do agree with you.
I will try to show the students the difference between formal and informal expressions.

[Md. Nuruzzaman Moral]

This is reall an important topic for the students.Thank you.

[Bhowmik]

Dear Mr. Moral,
Thank you for your commendable comment.

[Bhowmik]

Expressing how you have been or state of your health and happiness.



Fine
I'm fine
I'm cool (slang)
Keeping cool
Dandy (informal)
Fine and Dandy
Great
Happy as a clam
Okay
All right
No complaints
I have to complain about



Swapan Kumar Bhowmik
Lecturer, English, DIU

[Sultan Mahmud Sujon]

nice post

[sethy]

 It is a great post. Thank you for your valuable post. I think we can solve our mistakes that we doing everyday.

[Real]

Thank you, sir ...

[lima_diu]

sir very useful topic. thank you.

[Bhowmik]

To Lima Khan

Thank you for your feedback. Keep reading.

[Bhowmik]

Telling how you have been doing-----------POSITIVE EXPRESSION

Keeping busy.
Keeping myself busy.
Been Keeping myself busy.
Keeping out of trouble.
Been Keeping out of trouble.

Telling how you have been doing-----------NEUTRAL EXPRESSION

Same as always
Same as usual
Just muddling through
so so (informal)

Telling how you have been doing-----------NEGATIVE EXPRESSION

Not Good
Not so good
Not too good
None too good
Not well
Not very well
Not so well
Not too well
Not so/too hot
Not great
Not so Great
Not too great
Could be better
Crummy (slang)
I' ve been under the weather.

[Bhowmik]

Introducing Someone to Someone Else

I would like to meet Mr. William.
John, This is Mr. William
Hello,
Nice to meet you
Good to meet you
Glad to meet you
Very nice to meet you
Nice meeting you
What a pleasure to meet you
I'm happy to meet you.

[sethy]

Nice job. Keep it up...............

[Antara11]

Dear Bhoumik

You are stepping on with an excellent effort. Hope students are being facilitated.

Antara
Lecturer
Dept of English