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.
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10 Invitations and Requests Dialogues and Listening Exercises for Everyday Scenarios
1 Indirect requests (with answers and audio)
This is an indirect requests listening and speaking exercise and activity. Students try to complete the invitations conversations using the pictures and the vocabulary. Or students can listen to the audio and match the vocabulary and phrases to complete the questions.
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2 Invitations: accepting and refusing (with answers and audio)
This is a 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/aswell.
3 Making requests around town (with answers and audio)
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.
4 Husband-wife request role play (with answers and audio)
This is an elementary English ESL role play exercise for practicing requests. and two part verbs. Students complete the conversations with suitable expressions. Then they can listen to the audio and compare answers.
5 Requests, advice and commands speaking skills (with answers and audio)
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.
6 Office dialogues: making requests exercise (with answers and audio)
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.
7 Making Polite Requests (with answers)
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. Click on the image or the link at the side of the page to download the PDF file.
8 Invitations : refusing and making excuses
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.
9 Classroom requests & queries (with answers)
This elementary exercise focuses on common classroom requests.
10 Hotel dialogues: making requests exercise
This is an hotel dialogues exercise focusing on common conversational exchanges between hotel staff and guests.
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.