Reading. 1.3 Read the text below and answer the questions:

1.3 Read the text below and answer the questions:

1. Is “How do you do” a question?

2. What answer does it need?

3. Is it a formal greeting?

4. When is this greeting used?

5. What do you say to the greeting “How are you”?

6. When do you usually say “Good morning”, “Good afternoon” and “Good evening”?

7. How do you address a married woman (an unmarried woman, a man)?

On “Do’s and Don’ts” in Greetings and in Addressing People

When you come to Great Britain for the first time it is necessary to know most of the do’s and don’ts.

Here we are going to speak about the forms of greetings. The very formal “How do you do?” is not a question, that is why it doesn’t need any other answer than “How do you do?” This form of greeting is used when you are introduced to someone or if you meet someone for the first time. If you often meet someone you usually say, “How are you?” The answer to such a greeting must be short, for example: “Very well, thank you, and how are you?”

But that is not all. You can, of course, say “Good morning” when you enter, for example, a store, a classroom or an office in the morning. You can say it till noon (till about 12 o’clock in the afternoon).Till about 6 o’clock in the evening you say, “Good afternoon”, and from that time on “Good evening”. But all these are formal greetings.

If you meet a friend of yours you may say just “Hello, Mary”, or “Hi, Bob”, “Hi, Suzy”.

The manner of addressing people in Great Britain is different from ours.

A usual form of addressing people is “Mr. Smith”, “Mrs. Smith” but you must remember that “Mrs.” is the form of addressing a married woman, while “Miss” is used for an unmarried woman. Ms. is the form of address for a woman who is married or unmarried.

Here are a few rules of introduction which are useful to remember:

1. men are introduced to women;

2. young people to older ones;

3. old friends to newcomers;

4. a young girl to a married woman;

5. women are never presented to a man.