In this lesson, you will learn how to write an invitation email. Writing an invitation is a friendly way to ask others to join you for a special event or party. You will learn how to say hello, share your plans, and ask if others would like to come. Also, you will find out how to tell them where and when the event will happen. Read the following invitation email example and check the useful language.

These are expressions that you can use to start and end an informal email.

Use the present continuous tense to talk about plans that you already made with other people.

Use be going to for your personal intentions and ideas for the future. These are things that you don’t need to plan with other people or put in a diary.

Use will for other sentences about the future which are not plans. We use will for offers and predictions.

Use would like to ask questions and say what you want to do. You can shorten would like to I’d like. You can use love in replies, but don’t use it in questions.

Look how there is always to + infinitive verb after would like / would love.

Use can you to give invitations. You can use can you or could you to make a request. Could you…? is more polite than Can you…?. After Can/Could you…? always use an infinitive verb.

Use the correct prepositions when talking about dates and times. Use on before days and dates.

Use at before times.

Here are some other useful phrases for writing invitations.