What are you doing next weekend? Do you know how to answer this question? That’s what
I wanna teach you in this video. Hey guys teacher Prix here to help you talk to anyone
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I post different kinds of videos to help speakers from all over the world improve their speaking
skills and become more confident speakers. As I always do in this kind of video, I’ll
be showing you techniques to help you organize your ideas so that you can talk about your
plans for your weekend in English? So, first we need vocabulary, we need activities. I
will show you some : Visit my family, meet friends, Go out with friends, Go to the park,
Go to a party, Travel to the country or travel to the beach, Have dinner with friends, Go
to the movies, Clean the house or your room, Do the laundry, Do homework, Read a book,
Stay home, Go to a birthday party, Have a barbecue. So, guys, these are some popular
activities that you can do on the weekend. Now we need to organize these ideas and make
them into sentences. Let’s think about the weekend. On the weekend we are usually free
on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, well in most countries. In some countries, Sunday
is considered a business day, so in general, people are usually free on Friday night, Saturday
and Sunday. So, when you are talking about your plans, your weekend plans, it is interesting
to mention the days, so let’s build one example, Friday night – go to the movies.
Oh, one thing. If it’s already Friday night and you are going to tell someone about your
plans, you don’t need to say on Friday night, you can say “tonight”, ok? But only if
it is the night that you are going out already, ok? Saturday morning – go to the gym and
Meet friends in the afternoon, on Sunday – stay home, do the laundry and watch TV. Now, that
we have the activities, let’s build our sentences, shall we? So, suppose someone comes
to you and asks: hey, what are you doing this weekend? I’m going to the movies tonight.
On Saturday morning I’m going to the gym and in the afternoon I’m meeting my friends.
On Saturday night I’m going to a birthday party. On Sunday I’m staying home. I need
to do the laundry and I want to watch TV. When we are making plans in the future, and
these events, these future events are near future events, they are going to happen very
soon, we can use the present continuous to talk about it. “I am meeting my friends”,
“I am going to the movies” “I am visiting a friend tonight” “I am doing the laundry
on Sunday morning. But if you paid attention when I was giving you the sentences, I didn’t
use “present continuous all the time”. I used simple present too. On Sunday, for
example, I said I’m staying home. Ok, my future plan and then I continued: I need to
do the laundry – here I’m saying the sentence in the simple present, it is almost an explanation
to why I’m staying home, it is a complement to explain why I am staying home, because
I have plans, I have to do the laundry so I’m staying home because of that. I’m
giving more details to my plan, I’m staying home because I need to do the laundry, because
I need to do homework, and I want to watch TV. So you can make a combination of present
continuous and simple present to talk about your plans, you give your plan and then you
explain it a little bit. You give more details to your plans. Let’s see another possibility.
I’m traveling to the country this weekend. I want to stay with my family. We are having
a barbecue on Saturday. I’m going back home on Sunday afternoon. In this case, I am talking
about a trip to the countryside on Saturday on the weekend and then I give a little bit
more information. I’m traveling to the countryside because I want to stay with my family. I wanna
visit my family, so here it is in the simple present because I am giving a complement to
my plan which is to travel to the countryside. Then I continue and I say that I’m having,
we are having, my family and I are having a barbecue on Saturday afternoon, another
plan. I don’t give more details about it. After that I finish and say that I’m going
back to wherever I am going, I’m going back on Sunday afternoon. There you go. This is
a basic way to talk about your weekend plans. I gave you some vocabulary and I gave you
some structures, some structure ideas to help you organize your ideas, to help you put them
together. I showed you that we can use present continuous to talk about future plans, when
these future plans are very near, they are going to happen very soon, ok. But I also
told you that if you wanna support your plans, explain little bit more, you can even use
simple present, not problems. Now I have an exercise for you. What are your plans for
the weekend? Write your plans in the comments and use the strategies that I showed you here
in the video and I will make sure to read your comment and give you a feedback. Did
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you so much guys, and I’ll see you next time!