All right, everybody, I’ll tell you about this great place.
On Friday 16 March we went to Bogor Botanic Garden. We went there by bus and we arrived at that famous garden at 10 o’clock
Arriving at the garden, we were divided into two groups. Group A followed Mrs. Nina and Group B followed Mr. Ahmad. I was in group A. Well, first we went to the odd tropical plants and Mrs. Nina read us some of the information. Then, we looked at all the lovely plants. After that, we went to a little spot near the Raffles cemetery and had morning tea. Next, we did some sketching and then we met group B at the information center to have our lunch.
Soon, it was time for us to go to the orchid section while Group B did some research on flowers. Uhm…A lady led us to the orchid section. Then, she explained about many kinds of orchid.
Next, we had a look at the Indonesian orchid. Wow, we saw many kinds of Indonesian orchids. They were all beautiful. Later, we took a look at the American, European and Asian orchid’s section. It was interesting. Soon after we had finished our observations, we went back outside and met group B. Then, we got on the bus and returned to school. We really enjoyed the trip to Bogor Botanic Garden..When we meet someone, we need to great him/her. Greeting is an act of communicarion to make our presence known to eachother, and to show attention. Shaking hands is commonly used when we greet someone. In this chapter, we will talk about kinds of greetings that usually used in daily activities. Basides, we sill learn how to use expressions in leave taking, the act of deparating politely.
Learning Purposes :
After learning this chapter, you should be able to:
- Understand greeting and leave taking/parting
- Introduce oneself and someone
- Understand Epression of thanks and responses
- Use simple present tense and pronoun
In contrast to greeting, leave taking can be defined as an expression
or act with which somebody is leaved. For example when an English
teacher leaves a class, she/he says, “Good bye” OR “See you next
week.” and so on. Some of the words/phrases in English that can be
used in leave taking are the following:
- Hello!
- How are you?
- How are you doing?
- How is everything?
- How’s everything going?
- How have you been keeping?
- I trust that everything is well.
- Hi.
- What’s up?
- Good to see you.
- How are things (with you)?
- How’s it going?
- How’s life been treating you?
- It has been a long time.
- It’s been too long.
- What have you been up to all these years?
- It’s always a pleasure to see you.
- How long has it been?
- I’m so happy to see you again.
- How come I never see you?
- It’s been such a long time.
- Long time no see.
- Where have you been hiding?
- It’s been ages since we last met.
Leave-Taking
Face blind people sometimes have difficulty ending a social encounter. There is actually a graceful way to do that, but for those who can’t always read the expressions of others well, we may miss when people are taking their leave, or we may have never learned how to do that ourselves.We all know of the house visitor who we literally have to push out the door, or the afternoon companion who is tougher to get rid of than a wad of gum on the bottom of our shoe. This situation arises because one or both of the people do not know how people take their leave. The lack of this knowledge can bring one to a point where one shuns social contact altogether, because ending each encounter is so frustrating.
It takes two to tango, as they say, and a social encounter is a matter which is mutual. It’s often easier to start one than end one. Here we address the question: How does one member indicate that the mutuality has come to an end? What does he do to take his leave? Although we may not understand body language or facial expressions that indicate leave-taking, there are actually three words that people use for this purpose. One should learn them:
- Your name. They can say your name for other purposes, such as greeting you or emphasizing a point, but when your name occurs out of the blue, it is leave-taking. Example, “Joe, it’s been a fun afternoon.”
- Well. Example, “Well, I have some stuff to do.”
- Now. Example, “I am going home for dinner now.” (The word “now” usually follows mention of another activity.)
When a person takes his leave, the other party is entitled to a short sentence or two to acknowledge the leave-taking, and then the leave-taker to acknowledge that he is in fact taking his leave will utter an even shorter reply:
Tom: I am going to work on my e-mail now.
Joe: Okay, cool. I think I’ll go watch TV.
Tom: Catch you later.
Forestalling leave
If a companion is taking his leave, you may forestall it if you state a brief reason to do so. For example:
Tom: I am going home to dinner now.
Joe: Oh, before you go, what time do you want to meet tomorrow?
Tom: Noon would be cool.
Joe: Okay, see you then.
Tom: See ya.
Note that the forestalling (1) acknowledges that leave is being taken (“Oh, before you go”) and (2) states the reason briefly immediately thereafter. Note also that forestalling a person’s leave a second time is inappropriate. All reasons to do so should be stated the first time.
Note that the word “now” is also used to postpone the initiation of social contact, when it is combined with a designation of a later time for the contact to occur:
Tom: I am trying to get this report out now; let’s talk after lunch.
Joe: Okay, see you then.
Leave taking is not an invitation
One should be aware that leave-taking is not an invitation to follow the person taking leave. Don’t even ask. If it is an invitation, they will negate the impression that it is leave-taking by including the invitation in the statement:
WRONG:
Tom: I am going home to dinner now.
Joe: I’m hungry too. Can I come along?
RIGHT:
Tom: I am going home to dinner now, would you like to join me?
Joe: Sure!
Note that leave-taking can occur in groups of more than two people:
Tom: Joe, you want to go work on that project with me now?
Joe: Sure!
Bob: See you guys later.
(Tom, by using the word “now”, was taking leave. By addressing Joe, he was only taking leave of Bob. Bob should not take this as an invitation to join them.)
Others actually have this problem
Although face blindness can be at the root of one not having learned how people take their leave, leave-taking is actually learned in childhood by absorption of how other people do it. It takes good skills at subtly reading people to pick it up, and face blindness, autism, or Asperger’s syndrome can get in the way of this. Actually, any communications impairment or isolation during the period in childhood when leave-taking skills are learned, can cause one to reach adulthood without these skills.
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