You will be able to
- watch and answer questions about a video about how to invite someone in more formal and less formal ways;
- discuss socializing with coworkers and "Cultural rules" about entertaining in the US;
- demonstrate understanding of some basic vocabulary connected to socializing;
- compare your own cultural rules regarding entertaining/socializing with those of the US;
- demonstrate understanding of some basic vocabulary connected to dietary restrictions;
- write about your dietary restrictions;
- practice accepting invitations in more formal and less formal ways;
- watch and answer questions about a video about how to politely turn down an invitation;
- recognize and produce the four steps involved in declining an invitation: thanking, saying that you can't, giving a brief reason, closing in a friendly way;
- watch several short videos about how to use and pronounce the idiom to take a rain check appropriately;
- practice inviting, accepting, and refusing an invitation;
- demonstrate listening comprehension and a knowledge of basic writing conventions by completing dictations of several sentences;
- reflect on your learning in a written/oral journal format.