Making invitations
 Can/ will you…?
 How about (a
movie)?
 I was wondering if
you’d like to…
 I’d like to invite you
to…
 I/ We’d be
delighted if you
could…
 What about
(camping)?
 Would you care
to…?
 Would you like to…
?
Accepting invitations
Great!
I’d be delighted to.
I’d love to.
It sounds great!
Sounds fun!
Sure thing!
That would give us
the great pleasure.
o What a nice/great
idea! I’d really like
that!
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Declining invitations

I hate to turn you down
but…

I wish I could, but I’m busy.

I’m afraid I can’t’ but thanks
anyway.

I’m tied up (tonight)…

Much to my regret, but…

Thanks for asking, but I
really can’t.
Create the situations and talk to a partner.
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You have two tickets for a terror movie for tonight. Invite your best friend to go with you.
•
A friend of yours gave you two tickets for an opera concert which will take place next weekend. Invite
someone to go with you.
•
Today you are very hungry but you don’t want to cook. Ask your friend to go to a restaurant to have lunch
with you.
•
It is a holiday and most amusement places are closed. Invite your friend to have a drink at the bar in the
corner of your street.
•
It is your 25th anniversary and you’d like to have your friends celebrating with you. Invite one of them who
wants to take two more people to your party.
•
Ask your friend if he/she is free next Friday and invite him/her to watch a classical music concert at the
theater downtown.
•
You are planning to travel abroad on your next vacation. You’re going to Turkey. Ask a friend to travel with
you and explain why you don’t want to go alone.
•
Your neighbor is having a party at his house. There’s much food and drink. But you are shy. Invite a friend to
drop by the party with you.
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Your favorite band is going to be in your country. Set up a trip to watch the concert and invite one of your
friends to go with you.
•
It was your best friend’s sister’s wedding last Saturday. You were sure you’d be invited but you weren’t.
Discuss the reasons of your friend for not inviting you.
•
You are not a coffee passionate and one of your friends invited you to have an espresso with him for an
important job interview.
•
You are graduating in college and you professor invited you to make a presentation of your project at the
university.
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