INVITATION

Invitation is the invitation given by one person to another to attend an important event, such as birtday celebrations, anniversaries, births, school graduation, parting and anniversary of the company’s agency ath.

In the invitation, we need to list the names of people invites, the event, time (day, date, hour), place, message/additional information, as well as the name of the person who invited.

Giving invitation is an expression that is disclosed when there is someone who wants to ask other persons to come to a place or when there is someone who asks others to do something for him/her.

Examples :

a.       Ramon : Are you free next Sunday morning?

Andri    : Umm, yeah. What’s up ?

Ramon : Let’s go to my grandparent’s house. We can pick some ripe rambutans.

Andri    : Really? I’d love to.

Ramon : Great! I will pick you up at 9 a.m.

The underline-typed sentences is the expression of inviting and accepting an invitation.

Here are some expressions you can use to invite someone and respond to it.

Inviting someone	Accepting an invitation
Let’s go to my house.	Let’s go./Sure./O.K
What if we ask Jannice to join us ?	That’s a good idea./that sounds great
How about seeing a film this afternoon ?	That would be very nice
Will you come to my party ?	I’d like to, thank you

b.      Lisa : Please come to my house after school.

Mia : Any business ?

Lisa : Hmm, I will have a barbeque party in the garden.

Mia : That sounds great, but I have to do something else. Sorry.

Lisa : That’s a pity.

The underline-typed sentences is the expression of decline an invitation.

Here are some exspressions you can use to decline an invitation and respond to it.

Declining an invitation	Responding
Thank you for you invitation, but I don’t think I can ménage it. Sorry.	It’s a pity./That’s O.K
I’am really sorry about that. I have something else to do that day.	Oh, I see. Maybe some other time
I’d like to, but I have to baby-sit my lilte brother. Maybe some other time	No problem, really./Please reschedule