Nice to meet you ESL Video Lesson

  • Topic: It’s nice to meet you.
  • Communication Objectives: To greet new people the first time you are meeting them.
  • Language Objectives: To greet people for the first time using formulaic expressions.
  • Vocabulary:  nice, meet, you,
  • Sentence Structures:
    • Nice to meet you.
    • Nice to meet you too.

    nice to meet you

  • Grammar:  When we first meet someone, we might say ‘Nice to meet you’. This phrase uses the adjective ‘nice’ followed by ‘to meet’, a verb in the infinitive form. Here are some other examples:
    • Nice (description word about how I feel (adjective) ) + to meet (the verb in it’s infinitive or base form)
    • Glad (description word about how I feel (adjective) ) + to meet (the verb in it’s infinitive or base form)
    • Pleased (description word about how I feel (adjective) ) + to meet (the verb in it’s infinitive or base form)

Happy (description word about how I feel (adjective) ) + to meet (the verb in it’s infinitive or base form)