Pictures of real life situations give context to short conversational exchanges including invitations and requests, accepting and refusing and giving advice and making suggestions. It helps students understand, relate and identify with these everyday situations. And listening exercises with visual context help students gain a greater understanding of the English language.
This is a listening/ speaking skills exercise and worksheet to help English language learners to practice giving invitations, accepting invitations and refusing invitations in a variety of situations. Students try to complete the invitations conversations using the pictures and the useful vocabulary. Or you use the audio and you can have a listening lesson instead/as well.
Short invitation dialogues (PDF)
(see the YouTube version of this exercise)
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Students try to write commonly used requests and short conversations that are appropriate for the situations shown in the pictures. And then listen to the conversations to compare and check their answers.
This is a speaking/listening exercise and worksheet for English language learners to practice deciding whether to give commands, advice or make polite requests in a variety of situations shown in the pictures. This exercise can be done as a listening exercise now that I have added audio.
Requests, advice and commands speaking skills (PDF)
This is an office dialogues exercise to help students learn how to make polite requests in English. The pictures provide contexts so the students can more fully engage with the meanings and uses of the vocabulary.
Office dialogues: making requests (PDF)
(see the YouTube version of this exercise)
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This is a grammar exercise and worksheet for English language learners to practice making polite requests in the different ways and different scenarios. Students match the expressions on the left to the pictures and write complete requests with the appropriate request phrase.
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This is a speaking skills exercise and worksheet to help English language learners practice making invitations and giving excuses. Students match the excuses to the pictures and then have short conversations using the model on the handout.
Invitations: refusing and making excuses (PDF)
This elementary exercise focuses on common classroom requests.
This is an hotel dialogues exercise focusing on common conversational exchanges between hotel staff and guests.
Hotel dialogues: making requests (PDF)
Good communicative stuff to use with the students to practice natural conversations. Well-chosen and arranged situations wth nice pictures make speaking practice enjoyable
Thanks for the comments. I’ve been working on these for a while and they are getting better as I make improvements. If they are any mistakes or problems, let me know. Or suggestions…
Hello. I would like to share your exercises in a repository for english teachers. Could you give me your permission? Each activity will include the reference of your web page.
Hi Sonia,
Yes, that would be fine. And leaving a reference to my web page or website is perfect.
Regards, Peter Snashall
Great for online students’ practice, thanl U!
thank you for giving this worksheet, there are plenty of exercises, it help us as efl teacher. keep up the good work . Love it
Thanks again. It’s encouraging fo be appreciated.