You're Invited, English Template, Novice Mid

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1. Use the Activity as is:

Before you begin:

• Most activities are 30 minutes in duration, unless otherwise specified.
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You're invited

Description:

In this activity, students will practice accepting and rejecting invitations. This includes students getting the chance to create their own invitation and invite students to activities.  Students will learn more about activities, parties, times, and dates in (target language). Students will also learn how to politely accept and reject invitations. Students will also learn how to ask questions about specific information relating to parties and events. 

Proficiency Level:

Novice-Mid

Keywords:

Invitations, free time, hobbies, accepting and rejecting invitations

World-Readiness Standards::

• Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
• Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written (target language) on a variety of topics.
• Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in (target language) to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

Idaho State World Language Standards:

• COMM 1.1 - Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
• COMM 2.1 - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
• COMM 3.1 - Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
• COMP 1.1 - Observe formal and informal forms of language.
• COMP 1.3 - Compare and analyze idiomatic expressions in the target language.

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

• I can accept or reject an invitation
  
• I can invite and make friends with someone
• I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant, a house

Materials Needed:

Invitation Cards

Invitation Template

Google Slideshow

Dry or wet erase markers

Warm-up

1. Tell the students: 

     “I am going to invite you to a party but you don't want to go, how are you going to respond?” Write the word “NO” on the board. The students should make a cloud of ideas and write them on the
      board. After, do the same with the word “YES”
    

Optional "techie" modification: Use this website for the word cloud. This link has an example of what your could look like, and you can even make a copy of it for yourself!

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

• I can accept or reject an invitation
• I can invite and make friends with someone
• I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a  restaurant, a house