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10-C) Invitations
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On this video, a singer invites us to go to his concert (but it's not a real invitation, you'll see why).
Will you come to my concert?
Please, buy a ticket.
En este vídeo un cantante nos invita a su concierto. Pero no es una auténtica invitación porque después nos dice que paguemos.
TRANSLATION
¿Queréis venir a mi concierto? Por favor, comprad un billete.
1- Would you like to come to my birthday party?
2- Phone parody: invitation
3- Do you want to come to the cinema with me?
Report mistakesUSING WILL FOR INVITATIONS
One of the most common ways to make an invitation is using the modal verb WILL:
- Will you come to my party tonight?
- Of course. Thank you.
In invitations, will is not the auxiliary verb we use to make the future (I will go to London), but the modal verb that means "want".
auxiliary 
Will you make dinner? = Are you going to make dinner? (future)
modal Will you come to my party? = Do you want to come to my party? (invitation)
We can also use the modal verb WOULD to make the invitation sound more polite, but this is less common.
- Would you come to my party tonight?
- Sure. Thanks
Again, we're not using the auxiliary for conditional sentences, but the modal verb that means "want".
auxiliary What would you do if you won a million dollars? (conditional)
modal Would you come to my birthday party? (very polite invitation)
But it is ver common to use this modal verb in the phrase WOULD YOU LIKE TO...?
- Would you like to come to my party tonight?
- Ok
USING OTHER VERBS
We can also use other constructions to make invitations, for example:
- Do you want to come to my party tonight?
- You can come to my party tonight, ok?
- Why don't you come to my party tonight?
- Please, come to my party tonight.
etc.
