How to Invite & Respond

This A2 conversational ESL lesson focuses on how to invite and respond. Students will learn essential vocabulary for making, accepting, and declining invitations. The lesson features a quiz, a reading section with comprehension questions, and several interactive activities to reinforce and practice the phrases learned. Activities include a guessing game, a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, and sentence unscrambling. This engaging lesson helps students confidently use functional phrases in everyday conversations.

Lead-in

This A2 ESL lesson focuses on making and responding to invitations. It begins with a lead-in activity where students answer several questions about inviting someone, accepting invitations, and discussing activities they enjoy inviting friends to.

Vocabulary, Quiz

Next, there is a vocabulary section where students will learn key phrases for inviting someone, accepting an invitation, and declining an invitation. They will also practice asking and answering questions using emojis as prompts. In the quiz on the following slide, students will read several questions and choose the correct answer from three options. This activity helps reinforce the phrases they have just learned while encouraging careful attention to language use.

Reading, Questions

Next to the reading section, there will be two dialogues where students will read conversations that incorporate the new phrases and vocabulary they have learned. After reading, they will answer comprehension questions to reinforce their understanding and practice using the language in context.

Unscramble the sentences, Guess the invitation

After that, students will engage in several activities to practice the phrases they’ve learned. The first activity is Unscramble the Sentences, where students will arrange given words into correct sentences and questions. Next is Guess the Invitation, where students match each clue with the correct invitation. Finally, there is a Fill in the Blanks activity, where students complete sentences by replacing missing emojis with the appropriate words.

Yes, but…

The final activity can be done in groups or pairs. In this activity, one student invites another to an event with a specific date and time. The invited student must decline using “Yes, but…” and provide a reason. After that, they should extend a new invitation to their partner. Students should avoid repeating invitations and aim to keep the conversation going for as long as possible.