When you meet your business visitors, you may want to make small talk by asking questions about travel, accommodation and the weather so as to "break the ice" The following are examples of some of these questions. Please find their corresponding responses, and then listen to the dialogues to check your answers.

Questions
  1. Excuse me, sir, but are you Mr. John Alan from New York?
  2. Is this your first trip to China?
  3. Did you have any trouble finding us?
  4. What was the weather like when you left?
  5. How was your trip?
  6. How's the hotel?
  7. I suppose this weather must be a bit of a shock to you.
  8. Have you found somewhere to stay?
  9. Have you got a room with a view?
  10. Fine weather, isn't it?

Responses
  1. No problem at all. The map you sketched for me is excellent.
  2. Fine. Everything went very smoothly. Thank you.
  3. Oh, yes, I'm John Alan from the New York Trading Company.
  4. It is a bit. It was below zero back in the States.
  5. Not yet. Could you recommend somewhere?
  6. No. We visit China frequently. But this is our first visit here in Guangzhou.
  7. Yes, it's lovely.
  8. Very comfortable. Thank you.
  9. Pretty cold. It was only six degrees when I left home.
  10. Unfortunately not. All I can see is the street.
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