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    Invitations - Accept or Reject

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    This document provides teaching materials for an ESL/EFL activity where students practice making and declining invitations through a card game. It includes invitation prompts on cards, sample invitation and decline language, and instructions for playing the game in small groups.

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    This document provides teaching materials for an ESL/EFL activity where students practice making and declining invitations through a card game. It includes invitation prompts on cards, sample invitation and decline language, and instructions for playing the game in small groups.

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    This document provides teaching materials for an ESL/EFL activity where students practice making and declining invitations through a card game. It includes invitation prompts on cards, sample invitation and decline language, and instructions for playing the game in small groups.

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    Invitations - Accept or Reject

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    This document provides teaching materials for an ESL/EFL activity where students practice making and declining invitations through a card game. It includes invitation prompts on cards, sample invitation and decline language, and instructions for playing the game in small groups.

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    TEACHER’S NOTES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES I'm sorry, I can't.

    Activity Type Introduction


    Listening and speaking In this fun invitations activity, students play a card game where
    activity, group work they practice making and declining invitations.

    Procedure
    Language Focus
    Begin by eliciting language for making and declining invitations
    Making and declining
    from the class and write it on the board:
    invitations

    Making excuses Would you like to...? Do you want to...?


    How about...? I'd like to invite you to...

    Aim I'd love to, but I... I'm sorry, but I have to...
    Thanks, but I... I'm sorry, I can't. I'm going...
    To practice making and
    declining invitations. Next, review the language by inviting students to do things using
    the phrases on the board and have them decline your invitations
    and give reasons.
    Preparation
    Make one copy of the Next, divide the students into groups of three or four.
    cards for each group of
    three or four and cut as Give each group a set of cards. Ask the students to shuffle the
    indicated. cards and place them face down in a pile on the table.

    One student picks up a card and uses the prompt on the card to
    Level invite the student on their right to do something, e.g. 'Do you
    want to go to the park this afternoon?'
    Low intermediate
    The student on their right then tries to win the card by declining
    the invitation and giving a reason, e.g. 'I'm sorry, but I have to
    Time study English tomorrow afternoon'.
    30 minutes
    If the student does this successfully, the other student gives them
    the card.

    The students are not allowed to use the same reason twice during
    the game.

    If they do or they can't think of a reason, the invitation passes


    to the next student on the right. This continues until a student
    comes up with a new reason and wins the card.

    Students continue to play until all the cards have been used.

    The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

    Afterwards, have a class feedback session to find out some of the


    best reasons for declining an invitation.

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    INVITATIONS

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES I'm sorry, I can't.

    go to the park watch a film at the


    have lunch with me
    this afternoon cinema today

    come to a party go shopping at the mall


    dance with me
    on Saturday today

    play computer games


    go cycling tomorrow come hiking this weekend
    tonight

    come swimming with us meet for a drink


    have dinner with me
    this afternoon sometime this week

    come to the beach with go to the pub play badminton


    me next weekend this Friday this weekend

    watch a football match go for a walk visit a museum


    on Saturday after lunch tomorrow

    go for a coffee play cards with us hang out


    after class this evening this weekend

    go for a picnic go to a concert do yoga with us


    tomorrow afternoon on Thursday tomorrow morning

    Teach-This.com © 2019 Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use.

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