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Making Invitations: Making, Accepting or Declining An Invitation

John invites Jack to his birthday celebration taking place the next night at 7pm. Jack accepts the invitation and asks if he should bring food, but John says there will be plenty of food. Jack says he is looking forward to seeing John tomorrow. John confirms he will see Jack then. The document provides example phrases for making, accepting, and declining invitations. It includes positive and negative reactions to an invitation being accepted or declined. Students are asked to think of social activities and practice short dialogues accepting and declining an invitation using the example phrases.

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Making Invitations: Making, Accepting or Declining An Invitation

John invites Jack to his birthday celebration taking place the next night at 7pm. Jack accepts the invitation and asks if he should bring food, but John says there will be plenty of food. Jack says he is looking forward to seeing John tomorrow. John confirms he will see Jack then. The document provides example phrases for making, accepting, and declining invitations. It includes positive and negative reactions to an invitation being accepted or declined. Students are asked to think of social activities and practice short dialogues accepting and declining an invitation using the example phrases.

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Making invitations

Making, accepting or declining an


invitation
A dialogue
John: I´m having a birthday celebration tomorrow night.
Would you like to come?
Jack: Really? I´d love to. What time?
John: About seven o´clock.
Jack: Should I bring some food?
John: No, that´s fine. There´ll be plenty of food.
Jack: Great! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
John: See you, Bye.
A dialogue
John: I´m having a birthday celebration tomorrow night.
Would you like to come?
Jack: Really? I´d love to. What time?
John: About seven o´clock.
Jack: Should I bring some food?
John: No, that´s fine. There´ll be plenty of food.
Jack: Great! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
John: See you, Bye.
Invitations

• Making invitation
 Would you like to…? (+ inf.)
 Do you fancy….? (+ -ing./noun)
 What about…?(+ -ing/noun)
 Why don´t you (we) ..?
Invitations
Accepting Declining
• That sounds great! • I´m sorry, I can´t.
• I´d love to come • Sorry, but I won´t be able to
• Thanks. come/ to make it/ to
• That´s a good idea. manage it…
• I´ll definitely join you. • I´d love to, but I can´t
• Looking forward to seeing • Sorry, but it is not possible
because…
you.
• Wonderful!
Reacting
Possitive Negative

• Great! • That´s a shame!


• Happy to hear it! • What a pity!
• Fine, looking forward to • I´m sorry you can´t make it.
seeing you there. • Never mind.
• Glad you can make it. • Sorry, you can´t.
• See you there, then.
Vocabulary

 In pairs think about at least 10 social activities


people can do in their free time
Social activities
Practise

Prepare two short dialogues in pairs. Use the


phrases given in this presentation.
In the first dialogue accept an invitation and
react properly, in the second deny it.
Then act out the dialogue to the class.
Thank you for your attention.

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