💬 Invitations, Requests and Asking for Information

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✉️ Invitations & Requests in the Digital Age

Level: Elementary–Intermediate • Functional Language • 14 worksheets

“Would you like to come to my party?” “Could you send me the location?” Today’s invitations arrive by text, group chat, and calendar app — but the polite phrases still matter. This lesson explores how to invite, accept, decline, and make requests across face-to-face and online contexts, with vocabulary including decline, accept, respond, polite, formal, casual, apologize, and excuse. Activities include a Zara and Liam dialogue about a K-pop concert, a Diego and Priya camping role play, an online gaming role play between Maya and Tom, three critical thinking sets on response times and formal versus casual digital messages, collocations and word formation tables, pronunciation work, and a Main Idea worksheet.

🏨 Asking for Information: Mixed Hospitality

Added: April 2026 • Level: Pre-intermediate and above

Cruise ships, conference desks, food festivals, tour guide offices — every hospitality setting runs on questions. This collection examines how guests, visitors, and tourists ask for the information they need across travel, events, and service contexts, with vocabulary covering itinerary, venue, attractions, booking, landmark, entrance fee, onboard, excursion, registration, logistics, and hospitality. Activities include a Theo and Amara city tourism dialogue, a Zara and Tomás conference scheduling role play (present simple), three critical thinking worksheets (Planning Events, Tourism & Sightseeing, Guest Services), an opinion completion worksheet, and two Talk Zones — one with theme park job cards (Attractions Manager, Safety Director, Event Planner) and one with six hospitality scenarios from Cruise Ship Info Desk to Museum Visitor Center.

🏢 Asking for Information in an Office

Added: 2026 • Level: High Elementary and Above

Walk over to their desk? Drop a Slack message? Send an email? Start a video call? The modern office runs on this constant calculation. This set of exercises looks at how workers ask for information across digital and in-person channels, with vocabulary including budget, expenses, deadline, pressure, parcel, delivery, decreasing, inspect, and shocking. Activities include a Nia and Soren dialogue about tracking parcels and budget cuts, a Mina and Kai grammar role play on indirect questions and Shadow AI security risks, three critical thinking sets on communication habits and choosing the right method, a 200-worker survey graph activity, and a Talk Zone with four role cards — New Employee, IT Help Desk, Reception Desk, and Remote Worker.

😤 Complaints and Annoyances

Added: 2025 • Level: High Elementary and Above

Cold food. Late deliveries. Noisy neighbors. Wrong orders. Everyone has a frustration story — and the language to talk about it matters. These carefully sequenced activities help students complain effectively, ask for refunds, and resolve everyday problems with confidence. Key vocabulary includes refund, overcharged, complaint form, dissatisfied, compensation, rude, damaged, leak, and uncomfortable. Activities include a Kaira and Dante dialogue about a terrible café experience, a restaurant grammar role play between a manager and an unhappy customer (cold food, slow service, and a wrong order), three critical thinking worksheets (When to Complain, Best Ways to Resolve Complaints, Customer Behavior), collocations practice, and pronunciation work on contractions, linking, and sentence emphasis.

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