Beginner Dialogues - Giving and Requesting Personal Information

Personal Information

1. What's your surname (family name)?
2. Smith

1. What's your first name?
2. Fred

1. Where are you from?
2. Atlanta, Georgia

1. What's your job?
2. I'm a teacher.

1. What's your address?
2. 34 White Street

1. What is your phone number?
2. 308-6730

1. How old are you?
2. 54

1. Are you married?
2. Yes, I am.

Key Vocabulary

surname, family name, first name
Where are you from?
What's your job? address? phone (telephone) number?
How old are you?
Are you married?
married, single, divorced, separated

More Beginning Dialogues

• Introductions
• Telling the Time
• Giving Personal Information
• In a Shop
• In an Airport
• Asking for Directions
• In a Motel / Hotel
• In a Restaurant

This video with Ellen Quish, an ESL specialist from the Adult Learning Center at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, will help you practice ways of introducing yourself. The video highlights the most common English introduction vocabulary and phrases.