Making Invitations ESL Activities, Games & Worksheets

ESL Making Invitations Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Communicative Practice In this communicative making invitations activity, students make, accept and decline invitations and make suggestions on where and when to meet. The aim of the activity is to invite three other students to an event on a ticket and fill up a diary by accepting other students' invitations. Students go around the class and invite other people to go with them to the event on their ticket. Students only accept an invitation if they really want to go and are free. If not, students decline the invitation. When a student accepts a classmate's invitation, the student writes the invitation in their diary, and their classmate writes the student's name on the back of their ticket. After an invitation has been accepted, the two students suggest a time and place to meet. When everyone has finished, students give feedback to the class on who accepted their invitations and what plans they have in their diary. show less

ESL Inviting Activity - Reading, Writing and Speaking: Ordering, Role-Play, Gap-Fill, Writing and Presenting Dialogues, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this productive making invitations activity, students practice phrases for making and responding to invitations and making arrangements. First, students put a dialogue in the correct order by reading suitable sentences to their partner and numbering them from 1 to 14. Next, students underline the language for inviting and making arrangements in the conversation. Students then complete invitations and responses with words from a box. Finally, pairs create a dialogue in which one person invites the other to a place or event and then present it to the class. show less

ESL Making and Declining Invitations Game - Speaking: Asking Questions from Prompts and Responding, Communicative Practice - Group Work In this free making and declining invitations game, students are invited to do various things and try to decline each invitation with a unique excuse. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and using the prompt on the card to invite the student on their right to do something, e.g. 'Do you want to go to the park this afternoon?' The student on their right then tries to win the card by declining the invitation and giving an excuse, e.g. 'I'm sorry, but I have to study English this afternoon.' If the student does this successfully, the other student gives them the card. Students are not allowed to use the same excuse twice during the game. If they do or can't think of an excuse, the invitation passes to the next student on the right. This continues until a student comes up with a new excuse and wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Making Invitations Board Game - Speaking: Asking Questions, Making Statements from Prompts and Responding - Group Work In this fun making invitations board game, students practice making invitations and responding by declining and giving an excuse or expressing a possibility to accept. Players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along the board. When a player lands on a square, the student to their right invites the player to do something using the prompt on the square, e.g. 'Would you like to go to the cinema with me tomorrow afternoon?' The player then picks up a response card and uses the prompt on the card to reply to the invitation. The response either requires the player to decline the invitation and make an excuse or express a possibility to accept. The other students listen and judge the player's response. If the player responds appropriately using the prompt on the card, they stay on the square. If not, the player goes back two squares. The first player to reach the finish wins the game. show less

ESL Making Invitations Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Reading Comprehension, Categorising, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking Questions and Responding, Freer Practice In this comprehensive making invitations worksheet, students practice language for making, accepting and declining spoken and written invitations. First, students read a conversation about a host inviting someone to their party and then answer reading comprehension questions about it. Next, students use their answers to complete a written invitation. After that, students categorise phrases for making, accepting and declining invitations. Students then complete three short conversations using the phrases. Finally, students create a party invitation and use it to practice inviting, accepting or declining with their classmates. show less

ESL Invitations Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Brainstorming, Matching, Identifying, Writing an Email, Discussion In this useful written invitations worksheet, students learn about the contents of written invitations and practice writing one. First, in pairs, students brainstorm and write down what details should be included in a written invitation to a birthday party. Working alone, students then read four invitations and match them to events. Next, students identify what details are included in each invitation. After that, students write an email invitation to a birthday party and read it to the class. Finally, as a class, students discuss which of the invitations from the worksheet are the most formal and the least formal, and why, and which event they would like to go to. show less

ESL Invitations Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activities: Responding to Statements, Freer Practice - Pair Work Here is an engaging making invitations worksheet to help students practice phrases for making, accepting, and declining informal invitations. First, students discuss three questions about invitations in pairs. Students then complete invitations with words from a box. Next, students indicate whether phrases are used to accept or decline invitations. After that, students take turns reading each invitation to their partner, who uses a phrase to accept or decline the invitation. Students then move on to underline the correct words and phrases to complete four conversations about accepting and declining invitations. Afterwards, students write similar conversations using prompts and the language from the worksheet. Finally, students role-play the mini-dialogues with their partner and present some of them to the class. show less