English I · A1.1. National Autonomous University of Honduras, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages, English Section. PhD. Bessy Mendoza, MSc. Leonel Madrid. Students greeting each other on campus, with the flags of Honduras and the United States, the Statue of Liberty and New York.
English I · Lesson 2 · Step 1 of 5

URA + SofIA: Lesson URA and SofIA assistants

Resource · not graded
What you bring
From Lesson 1 (Hello, English! Words I already know): your product, your glossary and «I can find cognates in English.»
What this prepares you for
The forum asks you to use Formal and informal greetings with your classmates.

Goal of the lesson

I can greet people and say goodbye, formally and informally.

Puedo saludar y despedirme de manera formal e informal.

Open the URA of Lesson 2 · I PAC

The URA has the explanation, audio, examples by career and the Cultural Corner of the I PAC. Take notes: you will use them in the forum.

Formal and informal greetings

Use Good morning / afternoon / evening in formal situations. Use Hi / Hey with friends. Good night is only for saying goodbye.

FormalInformal
HelloGood morning. / Good afternoon.Hi! / Hey!
How are you?How are you today?How's it going?
GoodbyeGoodbye. Have a nice day.Bye! See you later.
En español

«Good night» es para despedirse en la noche, no para saludar. Para saludar en la noche: «Good evening».

Passport boosterCEFR A1.1

How do you feel?

«How are you?» needs a real answer. At A1 you can say how you feel with one adjective.

I'm + feeling: fine, great, tired, busy, nervous, happy. Ask back: And you?

En español

Para decir cómo te sientes: «I'm tired» (estoy cansado/a). No digas «I have tired».

Quick check (not graded)

1. How are you? — I ___ tired.

2. Which answer is polite?

Linguistic Passport:

Your AI assistants: SofIA

Recommended for this lesson: SofIA Comunicativa, about formal and informal greetings and farewells. SofIA asks your name, your career and your lesson, then helps you step by step. It explains, gives hints and helps you create your own mini-lesson, flashcards or practice. It never does graded work for you.

Available: SofIA Gramatical · SofIA Léxica · SofIA Fonética · SofIA Comunicativa · SofIA Profesional · SofIA Cultural.

Open SofIA for Lesson 2 · I PAC

Your career, your examples

I PAC · January – MayHeritage & festivalSaturday, February 6U.S. (Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communities)

Cultural Corner · Lunar New Year

This week: People say «Happy Lunar New Year!». Is it formal or informal? Write a greeting for a friend and one for a professor.

Lunar New Year is on February 6. Families eat together. People watch the dragon dance.

Key words

  • dragon dragón
  • red envelope sobre rojo
  • lantern farol

Fact

Every year has an animal. San Francisco and New York have big parades.

Your career

  • Health sciences: Family meals and special foods.
  • Engineering & technology: How dragon puppets move.
  • Business & economics: Gifts and the color red.
  • Education, humanities & communication: Greetings in many languages.
  • Environment, agriculture & tourism: The moon calendar.
Mirror Honduras. How do families in Honduras celebrate a new year? Compare the food and the colors.

Official source

Mission: Find 3 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Write them.

Cultural competency: I can say what Lunar New Year is (Saturday, February 6), use Formal and informal greetings to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.

See it in my I PAC Cultural Passport

Language bridge · plurilingual and intercultural

Use every language you know to learn English, and use English to understand other people.

English ↔ SpanishNotice the difference

«Buenas noches» can greet, but Good night only says goodbye. To greet at night: Good evening.

Other languagesFrench · Portuguese · Italian · German

Formal / informal: Bonjour / Salut (FR) · Bom dia / Oi (PT) · Buongiorno / Ciao (IT) · Guten Morgen / Hallo (DE).

Observe, compare, reflectIntercultural

Among friends in Honduras people often greet with a hug or a kiss on the cheek; in many U.S. workplaces a handshake or a wave is more common. What do you do at your faculty? Say «In my experience…».

Mediation challengeBuild a bridge for someone

A visitor asks how to greet your professor. Tell them, in English, which greeting to use and why.

Your languages count: ask at home or in your community how to say it in Garífuna, Miskitu, the English of the Bay Islands or any other language you know, and add it to your glossary. Add it to «My languages» in your Passport →

Arts Corner · FilmHollywood, U.S. · 1939

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming (director)

Dorothy travels to the land of Oz. She meets new friends on the road: a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion. They say hello and goodbye many times!

You use it in: 3 · H5P · Activity 6

Para docentes

Fuente de datos: data/source/in101_lessons.js (lección 2). Ingreso al UNAH Virtual Campus: data/links.json. H5P (práctica del sitio y calificado del Campus): data/h5p/. Anuncios: data/anuncios.json. Títulos y porcentajes según el Calendario. Inglés I: 12 lecciones (decisión de la Sección, 26-10-2026); las actividades 1–38 no cambian. Regenerar con python3 generator/build.py.