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An invitation to a party

Three friends celebrate with a birthday cake

Look at the exam question and invitation and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.

Instructions

Do the preparation exercise first. Then do the other exercises.

Preparation

Reading

Exam Question

It's your birthday next week and you're having a party. You want to invite your friend, Lisa. Write an email to invite her to the party. Tell her when it is, what she should bring and how to get there.

To: luckylisa100@webmail.com

Subject: Invitation

Hi Lisa,

I'm having a birthday party next Friday at my house. Would you like to come? It'll be fun! Lots of people from my school are coming. You know some of them – Petra, Karl, Marco and Rob. Can you bring some lemonade and crisps?

My house is behind our school, 6 Greenfield Avenue. It's right next to the park and it's got a blue front door.

Hope you can come and see you soon,

Edu

RSVP :)

Top Tips for writing

  1. Use the present continuous for future plans and arrangements, e.g. I'm having a birthday party next Friday.
  2. Use capital letters for days of the week and for street names, e.g. Friday; Greenfield Avenue.
  3. Use Hope you can come to finish your invitation. Note: RSVP means 'please reply'.

Worksheets and downloads

An invitation to a party - exercises537.66 KB
An invitation to a party - answers290.52 KB
An invitation to a party - invitation363.78 KB
An invitation to a party - writing practice404.73 KB
Discussion

Are you going to have a party for your next birthday? What other types of invitations do you send?

Language level
B1 Intermediate
Topics
email
birthdays
writing
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Comments

Submitted by erikaV on Sun, 10/13/2024 - 17:06

Hello everybody, I am Erika, and I'm a student from Mexico. I'm a learning English and I did this activity and I liked because is very easy. I noticed I need to practice more preposition of time. Thanks for reading this text.

Submitted by Anastasia Havryliak on Tue, 08/08/2023 - 09:44

This is very interesting. It was easy.

Submitted by pomelo on Wed, 03/22/2023 - 15:44

No, I am not going to have a party for my next birthday. But if I am going to have a party, I will send a message like: hi, are you free? Come to my birthday this Sunday. About 7pm something like that

Submitted by shinta on Mon, 10/24/2022 - 09:23

No, I am not going to have a party for my next birthday. But if I am going to have a party, I will send simple invitations. Like this, Hello, 〇〇!! Are you doing well?? I am good!! Next Sunday, I have a party for my birthday. Would you come a party. Where: My house When : Next Sunday16:00~ If you can, would you bring some snack? Shinta

Submitted by lucalvesilva on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:24

Hello, Lisa! I hope you're doing well. I'd like to invite you to my birthday party next week at my house. All the food and drinks will be provided here so you don't have bring anything. Lots of my friends are coming and you know some of them. I'm sure we are going to have fun. You already know my adress as you've come here for quite a long time. Hope to see you soon. Kisses, Lucas.
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Submitted by Andrii on Thu, 05/13/2021 - 17:21

I haven't planned about my next birthday yet because it's going to be in six months. When I invite my friends to a party, I usually write short messages, like: "Hello! I'm having a birthday party at home on 14th December. It will start at 5:00 PM. I hope you are going come.

Submitted by Flanker on Thu, 01/14/2021 - 10:28

Dear Ana How are you? I'm having a garden party next Sunday. Would you like to come? It'll be lots of fun and there'll be loads of people there. We are going to have a barbecue, so bring some meat and fizzy drinks. My house is on Baba Novac, . You can see it's my house because it is colorful! Cristian RSVP
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Submitted by rafaelyeshua on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 20:48

why if don use "." is incorrect? i'm very unhappy for it, you guys need to fix it >:C
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Submitted by JoModerator on Wed, 12/23/2020 - 07:36

Hi rafaelyeshua,

Sorry but I'm not sure where you're having this problem. Is it in one of the online exercises?

 

Best wishes,

Jo (LearnEnglish Teens team)

Submitted by Msharymnn on Sun, 10/18/2020 - 18:21

Hi maron I’m having a party for my graduation in Tuesday at the pizza restraint would you like to come it’ll be fun I only invited you and 6 other friends the restraint is expensve so my parents allow me to invite just six people I invited my best friend and you are one of them The restraint is in cherry strret L13839 north it’s right next to the mall and see you soon Mshau

Submitted by Mamou1 on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 09:38

Dear Cameron How are you? it's be a long time since we see each other. I'm really happy you came in guinea for holidays because next week, precisely Saturday morning we're going to have birthday party in my house . yeah you guess it will be my birthday party for my 15 years old. it will be fun and it'll be lots of fun and there'll be loads of people there like my classmates and grandma she's going to be very happy to see you. My house is on Samba avenue near a park. you will immediately recognize it because it the only house with many trees and red door. we're going to have cinema party so, bring popcorn or lemonade. Hope you can come and see you sonnn!!! Tara.

Submitted by MS on Mon, 08/10/2020 - 11:42

Hi Lisa, How are you? Sorry for not replying to you for a while I have been quite busy to be honest. Anyways, I am writing to you to invite you to my birthday next Thursday at 5:00pm. Yes, believe it or not a whole year has passed already. I am having a small party at my home. I have invited our close friends only and I hope you would come to the party. It will be fun like last year. Sam, Carla and Tom are coming. Suzanne might show up. It will be fun. We will play games like last year. I would be thankful if you could bring some juice. You probably have forgotten the location of my home. My building number is 365, Green Avenue and it is opposite to Hot And Spices restaurant. I hope you can come to the party as we haven’t gathered for quite sometime. wish to see you soon . MS,

Submitted by helenblack on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 11:47

I celebrate my birthday with my family and close friends every year. My mum, I, my grandmothers and my aunt prepare a lot of delicious foods such as cookies, cakes, patties and leaf wrapping.We spent amazing time together.I play games with my cousins and friends all day, I open my birthday gifts and I love all of them every time. When I was younger then now, I prepare a lot of handmade ornate invitation cards for my birthday but now, I call my guests with phone for invitation.
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Submitted by Giovannichoi on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 02:15

My birthday is 3rd of June, so it already passed. And I'm not going to have a party, so I won't invite anyone. I hadn't had a party so far, but I always go on a trip when my birthday was just around the corner. I don't have a mind to send an invitation to my friends, or ... anything like that!!!

Submitted by Makam on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 12:56

Not exactly.

Submitted by Elife on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 00:01

I'm not sure that. But, I hope so. I usually use social networking sites like Facebook or WhatsApp,

Submitted by lancer on Tue, 11/26/2019 - 17:24

Title: Email to invite Lisa to my birthday party Hello Lisa It's my birthday next week. I am going to have a party on next Friday. The time party will be held is 5 pm. Would you like to come? A lot of people are coming. We are preparing delicious foods and drinks such as barbecue, lemonade, crisp, fizzy drinks, beef steak. In addition It will be fine because an actor will be at the party. Please guess who the actor is. My house is at the xxx avenue, right next to the red shop. It's got blue door. Also I'd like you to bring some snacks. Hope you can come and see you soon. Lancer

Submitted by Thu on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 11:02

Of course, my mom will make a party for me. But not invite too many people, because I'm not a baby anymore. And my friends just interested in sushi, tobokki, and some Korean food. But sure my mom will just invite my BF, she's really cute. : >

Submitted by Yushra on Mon, 03/11/2019 - 15:52

Dear Lisa, Hi! How are you? It's been a long time you haven't write me :( No need to ask me because I am very fine by the grace of Almighty Allah. Well....you know my birthday is coming next week and I'm going to arrange a party. All of my friends are coming. I hope that you are coming. My home his right behind our school. It's a building consist of tree floors. Mine is on the second floor. The door has my father's name on it. Hope you are coming. If you ain't, I won't talk to you again. Ok...bye! I'll see you at the party.
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Submitted by Youjiro on Sat, 01/19/2019 - 07:41

I having a party for my friend's birthday party.I'm going to go to a party to celebrate a friend .
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Submitted by Batgirl on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 18:31

Yes, I'm going to invite some of my friends to the restaurant and we are going to have a lot of fun! I will send e-mails to inform my friends about the time and place of celebration.
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Submitted by Ahjeen on Thu, 02/22/2018 - 18:46

No but I'm going to celebrate it with my family.
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