LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• share likes and dislikes about invitations and events;
• practise phrases for making and responding to invitations;
• listen to a recording where people make, accept and decline invitations.

With this lesson, students talk about preferences related to invitations and events. They work with phrases to make and reply to invitations (e.g. How about…?, That sounds great., I’m sorry, I can’t.), listen to a recording where people use those phrases and discuss invitation challenges and social dilemmas. Students also do a role-play where they take turns making invitations and accepting or declining them.

WARM-UP AND DISCUSSION

This lesson, where students practise making and responding to invitations, starts with a warm-up. Students talk about situations involving recent invitations. Afterwards, they brainstorm some verbs or phrases to use with the noun ‘invitation’. Then, students look at some events (e.g. dinner with friends, birthday party, conference) and discuss questions about event invitations. Following that, they read statements about personal preferences about invitations and events (e.g. I like throwing surprise birthday parties for my friends.) and say which ones are true for them. Next, students look at situations related to invitation challenges and social dilemmas. They say what they would do in each of them.

RECORDING AND ROLE-PLAY

In this part of the lesson, students arrange the lines of dialogues in the correct order. They then listen to a recording of people making and responding to invitations and check their answers. Following that, students put phrases from the previous task (e.g. Are you free?, Yes, I’d love to…, Thank you for the invitation, but…) in the correct categories (inviting, saying yes to an invitation and saying no to an invitation). Afterwards, they complete gaps in dialogues. Next, students complete each dialogue by writing the missing lines. After that, they work in pairs. Students look at a poster containing events in the city. Students do tasks where they invite their partner to the events and role-play conversations using phrases related to invitations.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students unscramble phrases in dialogues. They then put the lines in each dialogue in the correct order. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.