# INVITATIONS at work, how to say YES and NO - Business English lesson with professional vocabulary.

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 26 May 2025, 24 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2022761/episodes/17224514-invitations-at-work-how-to-say-yes-and-no-business-english-lesson-with-professional-vocabulary.mp3

Send us Fan Mail Learn how to confidently accept or politely decline invitations in professional English when speaking or writing. This episode provides essential business English vocabulary and natural phrases for networking and building work relationships. Master the art of professional communication with practical tips and real-world examples. Accepting invitations in English is important for networking and professional development. But speaking English as a second language or communicating your plans on invites to events and meetings can be difficult. This business English lesson is going to help you to say yes or no to your colleagues when they ask you to attend meetings and events. We discuss some natural and native sounding vocabulary that you can use to talk to your managers, clients, customers, and colleagues, including some phrasal verbs and idioms that you can use to sound more natural and native when talking or writing to people at work. Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the vocabulary in this episode really useful. This podcast is all about helping you to communicate better, in English, at work. I work with international English speakers from around the world who use English, at work, as a second or third language and I hope that I can bring some of the ideas, vocabulary, and grammar, from those sessions, to you in this podcast. Don’t forget that my full time job is helping international professionals who use English at work to improve their communication skills. So, if you need English to do your job but don’t speak it natively then maybe we can work together to help you to achieve your language goals. Book a class: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com Support the show Book a coaching session with me at: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com

## Transcript

Welcome to the Breakout Business English podcast. Where? I help you to communicate Better. At work, in English. Hi everyone, my name is Chris and as always I am a business English coach and tutor. Thank you so much for listening and for your time and today's topic is: How to say yes? Aw, no. To an invitation Work.So on last week's podcast, we discussed... I'm and rescheduling Events.So Today's topic… feels like the natural Next. To object, the natural way to follow that. If you are scheduling events, you will likely be replying to invitations, replying to invites, or indeed making your own invitations. Whether you are inviting a colleague to do something or simply giving your answer to an invitation, dealing with invitations is a key part of networking and building professional relationships. In today's podcast, we're going to talk about how to invite your colleagues to events, how to accept and how to politely Decline or say no to an invitation. We're going to hear some natural and native vocabulary that we can use to do this. And we'll hear some great sentences that you could use in many different situations. Ciao. Let's get started. First. Let's discuss making invitations. Let's imagine that you want to invite a colleague to lunch. How might you do that? What kinds of words or phrases might you use? Let's take a listen. To some natural and native ways that you might invite a colleague to lunch. A few of us are popping out for lunch. Do you fancy joining us? A few of us are popping out for lunch. Do you fancy joining us? Would you like to join us for lunch? Would you like to join us for lunch? I'm heading out for lunch soon. Do you want to grab a bite to eat together? I'm heading out for lunch soon. Do you want to grab a bite to eat together? Let's start our vocabulary discussion today by taking a closer look at some vocabulary from the first example. And we're going to start with the phrasal verb 'to pop'. Out. To pop out. In the first example, we heard: A few of

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