Would Like 1: Simple Requests and Offers
By the end: I can ask for something and respond to a simple offer.
Try the activities, then check your answers.
Start here
Imagine ordering a drink at a café.
Read each explanation, say your answer aloud, then open the model and try again. You may write your answer if you prefer. Use invented personal details whenever you like.
Useful preparation: Basic a/an; familiar food and drink nouns. This is a phrase-led lesson.
Allow a first attempt before opening the model. Start: 3 minutes. Learn and You say: 18. Practice: 8. Listening: 9. Quiz and correction: 8. Speaking: 11. Recap: 3.
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Ask for something
Use I would like + a thing to make a polite request. The short form is I’d like. Add please when it fits: I’d like a tea, please. Use a/an with one countable item such as a sandwich.
I’d like a sandwich, please.
I would like some water, please.
Read the short form in its sentence
In this request, I’d means I would. The short form does not make the request past.
Offer something
Ask Would you like + a thing? to offer it now. Would you like a drink? asks about an offer. Do you like tea? asks about a general preference. They do different jobs.
Would you like a drink?
Would you like an apple?
An offer and its polite acceptance
The listener can choose.
The listener accepts the apple.
Use an apple, because apple begins with a vowel sound.
Accept or refuse politely
Answer an offer with Yes, please or No, thank you. You can name another choice: No, thank you. I’d like some water. I’d means I would here; it is not the past form of like.
Yes, please.
No, thank you. I’d like some water.
Decline one drink and request another
This answers “Would you like a tea?”
The speaker says what they want instead.
Guided practice
Try each answer first. Check it, or open a model and its explanation.
Try the form
Compare an answer and explanation
like
Keep like after I’d.
Compare an answer and explanation
Would
Start the offer with would.
Compare an answer and explanation
please
Yes, please accepts an offer politely.
Compare an answer and explanation
thank
No, thank you refuses politely.
Build or change a sentence
Compare an answer and explanation
I’d like a sandwich.
I would becomes I’d.
Compare an answer and explanation
Would you like a tea?
Put would before you.
Compare an answer and explanation
I’d like some water.
Use like without s after would.
Compare an answer and explanation
No, thank you.
Use the complete polite phrase.
Listen to a short conversation
Listen. Then open the words and read aloud. Try one part with a partner, or say both parts on your own.
Open the conversation transcript
A: I’d like a sandwich, please.
B: Would you like a drink?
A: Yes, please. I’d like some water.
B: Here you are.
Listening checks
Read the question, play its recording, then choose an answer. You can open the transcript whenever you need it.
Listening 1
Read the transcript
Would you like a tea? No, thank you. I’d like some water.
Listening 2
Read the transcript
Would you like an apple? Yes, please.
Listening 3
Read the transcript
I’d like a sandwich, please. Would you like a drink? No, thank you.
Mastery quiz
Choose the best answer for each situation. Aim for 7 out of 8, then correct anything you missed.
Answer key with explanations
would I would like makes the request.
I’d like I’d means I would here.
Would you like a drink? This offers something now.
Yes, please. This is a natural acceptance.
No, thank you. This is a natural refusal.
like Use like after would.
Would you like an apple? Apple takes an here.
Do you like tea? Do you like asks about the preference.
This quiz checks this lesson, not your overall English level.
Make it yours
Speak first, compare a model, then say a new version. These tasks are ungraded.
Speaking task 1
Order two things in an invented café.
Compare a possible response
I’d like a sandwich and some water, please.
Success check: Use I’d like + nouns.
This is one possible response. Try again with your own details.
Tutor follow-up: What one detail can you change?
Speaking task 2
Offer two things to your partner. Accept one and refuse one. On your own, say both parts.
Compare a possible response
Would you like an apple? Yes, please. Would you like a tea? No, thank you.
Success check: Use natural polite answers.
This is one possible response. Try again with your own details.
Tutor follow-up: What one detail can you change?
Speaking task 3
Order something, respond to an offer, and ask for another item.
Compare a possible response
I’d like a sandwich, please. No, thank you. I’d like some water.
Success check: Keep the request and offer forms separate.
This is one possible response. Try again with your own details.
Tutor follow-up: What one detail can you change?
Recap
Listen and repeat. I’d like a sandwich, please. Would you like a drink? Yes, please.
I can ask for something and respond to a simple offer.
- I can use the main pattern.
- I can make one sentence of my own.
- I know one thing to practise again.