Download this free C1–C2 English worksheet PDF for advanced English learners and teachers. This lesson is based on the new comedy film The Invite, which turns an ordinary dinner into a social minefield.
Students practise advanced reading comprehension, high-level vocabulary, phrase matching and speaking skills through a real-world entertainment topic about dinner parties, social performance, manners, class, friendship, insecurity and tension. The worksheet is suitable for advanced conversation lessons, online English classes, private tutoring, IELTS-style speaking practice and critical thinking work.
The article explains that Reuters reported the A24 comedy stars Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen as a married couple whose evening with upstairs neighbours, played by Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, spirals into a dinner party disaster. Students read about a meal where adults try to eat, drink and keep up appearances, while old tensions and uncomfortable truths come to the surface.
This worksheet encourages advanced learners to discuss why dinner parties work so well in comedy and drama. Students consider how polite social settings can force people to walk on eggshells, bite their tongue and avoid overstepping the mark, while one careless remark can expose hidden tension.
The article also explores the pressure to be charming in someone else’s home. Students discuss whether manners are about kindness, status or hiding what people really feel, why long-term couples sometimes reveal tension in front of others, and why audiences enjoy watching polite situations fall apart.
The PDF includes a C1–C2 reading article, True / False questions, Phrase Match, Synonym Match, a task where students use new language, discussion questions and a full answer key. It helps learners discuss social rituals, honesty, awkwardness, class, marriage, performance, friendship and social survival.
Level: C1–C2
Date: 30 June 2026
Focus: advanced reading, vocabulary, films, dinner parties, social tension, manners and speaking
This free worksheet includes:
- a C1–C2 reading article about a dinner party comedy film
- True / False comprehension questions
- Phrase Match practice with advanced expressions
- Synonym Match with high-level vocabulary
- a sentence-writing task using new language
- discussion questions for Student A and Student B
- full answer key
The worksheet includes useful advanced phrases such as social minefield, spirals into, keep up appearances, come to the surface, walk on eggshells, bite their tongue, overstep the mark, fed up, sweep problems under the carpet and let off steam. It also practises vocabulary such as ordinary, premise, civilised, careless, insecurity, appeal, recognise, tense, spectacular and familiar.
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