Accepting and declining invitations

Level: lower intermediate and upper

To download the handout with language items and procedure click HERE. 

Language items: 

a) Structures for invitations such as: (see handout for more)

• Do you want to . . .
• Do you wanna . . . (informal)
• Would you like to . . . (more polite)

b) Structures for accepting invitations such as: (see handout for more)

• Sure, I'd love to. What time?  (or any other question)
• Sounds like a great idea. (Ask a question)

c) Structures for turning invitations down such as:   (see handout for more)

• No thanks. I'm kind of tired right now (or other possible excuse)

• I'm terribly sorry. I have other plans for that night

Marterials. 

• Handout  (Provided below)
• Whiteboard

To download the handout with language items and procedure click HERE.
You may want to project  the language structres provided on the Whiteboard

Why on-line translators don't work. The importance of sentence structure (English-Spanish)

Aim: Understand that word for word translation does not work

         Learn how to use a dictionary by observing the information that a dictionary provides 

Warning! This task is has been designed for Spanish speakers. 

If you are not teaching Spanish students, don't bother to download the task! 

   No photocopies needed. Just project the provided Power Point on Whiteboard  

Students need to be familiar with the simple past in order to carry out this task 

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Sample task

Materials:

• Power Point Presentations 
• Teacher's Key 

Download the materials HERE

This task focuses on sentence structure. If you want to focus on meaning  you may complete this with this other task: HERE