Accept some and refuse others

B) Make short dialogues with invitations and suggestion.

Listen to the dialogues in exercises 4 and 5 again and tick the expressions you hear

Listen and check your ideas.

Are you going this evening to come and pick you up near the station 7.30 be nice nothing special

Ask your partner questions to get these answers. Tick each answer when you hear it.

Have you got a mobile phone?

Yes, I have. No, I haven't.

Yes, I was. No, I wasn't.

Yes, I do. No, I don't.

Yes, I did. No, I didn't.

Yes, I am. No, I'm not.

Yes, I can. No, I can't.

I don't know That's rather a personal question!

Part 2

1. What do you like doing in your spare time? What sort of person are you? (The answer could be 'both' or 'neither'.)

• a restaurant person or an eat-at-home person?

• a television person or a book person?

• an indoor person or an outdoor person?

• a sport person or a culture person?

• a solitary person or a sociable person?

2. Add these activities to the word web. Can you think of any more?

watch TV go out for dinner chat on the phone go to a sports centre go to the cinema

go for a walk surf the net play tennis get a take-away go to a nightclub

go to a football match go to the pub read a book have an early night have dinner with friends

3. Look at this dialogue and complete the missing lines. Where are Oliver and Holly going?

Oliver: Are you doing anything __________?

Holly: No,_____________.

Oliver: Well, we're going to that new Chinese restaurant___________.

Would you like________________?

Holly: Yes, that would _________. What time__________________?

Oliver: About 8.00. Shall we come_____________________?

Holly: Yes, great.

Oliver: OK, I'll call for you at___________.

5. Listen to two more dialogues. What decisions do the people make?

6. You don't always want to accept an invitation. Listen to these four dialogues.

Invitations and suggestions Would you like + infinitive? Do you fancy + -ing? How about + -ing? Shall we + verb? Let's + verb Why don't we + verb?

Accepting That would be nice. That would be great. Good idea! Great idea! I'd love to. Fine. Yes, OK. That's a good idea.

Refusing I'm (really) sorry, but I can't. I'm + -ing I'm afraid I can't. I have to... I'd love to, but I... I don't really like... I'm afraid I'm a bit busy. How about... instead?

8. How many invitations and suggestions can you make?

Shall we go for a walk? Would you like to go for a walk? Do you fancy going for a walk?

go	to go	going	a coffee	a sandwich
play	to play	playing	for a walk	tennis
have	to have	having	a take-away	to the cinema

9. How are these words pronounced?

Shall we are you do you would you

10. Listen to them in sentences. How are they pronounced?
a) Repeat them and try to sound exactly the same.

Shall we go to the theatre?

Are you doing anything this evening?

Do you fancy a take-away?

Would you like to see the new musical?

A: Do you fancy going out for dinner?

В: Yes, that would be nice.

A: Where shall we go?

• go out for dinner

• stay in this evening

• go out

• go to the pub

• go to see a film

• go to a football match

• go to Edinburgh for the weekend

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