This month, I'd like to challenge you to plan a dinner party with a special guest of your choice!
Your Task
1. Decide who you would invite for dinner. This can be anyone. Your guest can be dead, alive, famous, or even fictional (i.e. a character from a book or movie).
2. Decide what you would serve for dinner.
3. Decide who else would be at the table. Would it be a dinner for two, or would you include friends or family members?
4. Write a paragraph explaining why you chose this dinner guest. What would you talk about at the dinner table?
5. Share a link to your post in the comments below.
OPTIONAL: Challenge a MyEC friend to write a short dialogue between you and your dinner guest. This dialogue can be written in the comments of your post.
TIP: You will be using the word "would" in your writing a lot. Review the uses of "would" here.
My Example
If I could invite anyone over for dinner, I would invite Anne of Green Gables. I would love to meet Anne in person. She is one of my favourite fictional characters, and I think she would be a fun person to meet.
I don't know what I would feed Anne Shirley. I guess it would depend how old she was when she arrived. It would be fun to meet her at age 10. I would love to see how she interacted with my ten-year-old daughter. My daughter is much more sensible than Anne, but they do have some similarities. They both appreciate good writing and parties. They both talk a lot. I would probably ask a chef to come and cook for us. There's a local chef in my city that I really like. I would ask him to come over to make goat cheese perogies and spinach salad with strawberries and pecans.
I'd get out my mom's special silverware for the occasion. I think Anne would appreciate pretty dinner napkins, too.I would probably invite a few of my daughter's girlfriends to dine with us. I'd tell them to dress up for the occasion.
I would keep my notebook handy to jot down any of Anne's dramatic monologues. I think she would dominate the conversation. Maybe she would tell us tales about PEI.
I would make sure there were lots of fresh flowers in the house. I would ask her to make up names for some of my plants in the garden. I would also ask her to sign my guestbook. (I would need to get a guestbook first.)
It would be a dream come true to have Anne Shirley as a dinner guest. I wouldn't extend the invitation to Marilla Cuthbert, though.
Comments
I would give it a try, but as your permission to get a diversion and do not use would as it is required. I hope I am permitted...............Tara
Fantastic Idea, but can't really imagine to invite someone for a dinner party.
After a dinner party, it's always a good idea to send a "thank you" note within a few days. If it's your sister who has you over for dinner every weekend (and you host her family too), you can usually skip the formality, but otherwise, just do it. Chances are, you have a lot to be thankful for. Think about everything that goes into hosting a meal: plan the menu, shop for ingredients, clean the house, set the table, cook the meal, serve the meal, clean the dishes, and then clean the house all over again if children were involved. I'm sure you say thanks on your way out but wouldn't a little "thanks again" note be that much nicer? If you received a hand-written invitation to a dinner party, you should handwrite the thank you note. For a casual dinner with your good friends or an Evite invitation, email or a thank you phone call the next day will do. Think about...
This is a good idea Tara. It can be especially good if they follow your directions carefully and take the time to check out their grammar.
I hope lots of my friends give this a try. I'm trying to get them all writing regularly.
Sounds like fun - I'll try to find time to write.
So your post should look like this: I would invite...I'd serve...I'd also invite...I chose her/him because I...We'd talk about English learning or the World Cup or whatever you like.
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