how was your last weekend can you talk about it watch this video and learn how to talk about your
last weekend in English coming up hey student I am teacher Prix and I’m going to help you talk
to anyone anywhere anytime in English thanks for watching this lesson make sure to subscribe
but now let's get down to business how to talk about your last weekend now guys there are four
main points in this lesson I even took some notes here so that I don't forget them okay
you need simple past so I will give you some explanations about simple past because I have many
lessons here on my channel where I give detailed simple past explanations but that's not the focus
of this lesson this focus is more speaking practice okay so stay with me the second point
there are specific questions connected with last weekend we're going to focus on that third point
vocabulary you need some verbs some expressions that are connected with weekend activities okay
now disclaimer there are many things we can many words we can use about last weekend
but here I want to be objective so if you do different things on your weekend
you will need to find the words to describe those different activities you do okay and number four
organize your weekend description this is what students don't know how to do very well
organizing themselves when talking about their weekend so this is an excellent practice and
if you already know how to do that this is an excellent review okay first things first
remember this is simple past when you're talking about your last weekend you will primarily focus
on affirmative sentences because you're describing things you did okay so every time you make
affirmative phrases in the past the verb you use the spelling of the verb will be different so I go
is present I went is past so every time you're talking about your last weekend you will use past
if it's a negative sentence you will not change the verb the verb goes back to base form I didn't
go I didn't represent "didn't" represents the past I didn't go with a few exceptions verb to be and
verb can verb to be in the past is was and were and in the negative wasn't and weren't the verb
can in the past is could and in the negative form couldn't these are the exceptions okay
the second thing you need to understand here is when talking about last weekend we have two
important questions okay the first one is how was your last weekend hey how was your last weekend
how was your last weekend I wanna know was it nice was it good was it bad was it great
how was your last weekend very common when I ask this question in real-life people
will say if it was good bad boring nice and they will immediately start describing some
activities the most important ones okay but with my students and you are here you are my student
I want to help you organize your ideas so for this question just say if it was nice oh great
good bad so so and if you are in a conversation let the listener ask you the next question
what did you do what I wanna know what what did you do what did you do last Saturday night
these are some variations what did you do last night oh what did you do on Saturday what did
you do on Sunday what did you do last weekend so these are things you could ask after you ask how
was your last weekend okay another thing you can say let's say I ask oh what did you do and you
say well I went to the movies oh was it nice was the experience was going to the movies was it nice
did you have fun was it expensive did you go there by yourself so these are
some things that you can say maybe you say oh I bought the past of buy I bought a new phone
oh wonderful was it the phone was it expensive yeah it was expensive so these are some variations
okay but here for this lesson I will focus on something more specific to help you organize
your descriptions okay it is very important that you organize your weekend Friday Saturday Sunday
basically this is what a weekend is like okay so Friday Saturday Sunday to some people
Friday and Saturday sometime in some cultures Sunday is a business day but in other cultures
Sunday is not a business day so it depends Friday Saturday or Friday Saturday Sunday it
depends on the culture or where you are I will be giving you some expressions some connectors
simple connectors to help you connect the ideas okay I don't want it to be like I woke up at
seven I went to the to work I called my mother I had dinner I watched Netflix I went to bed
at 9 00 p.m on Sunday I took my dog for oh no you need to connect the ideas so I will show you how
to connect the ideas okay so that you can have a nicer description of your weekend and remember you
will not describe every little thing but the most important highlights of your last weekend okay
as you can see here on the screen we have some activities that people usually do
okay I will speak them in the base form and then in the past so that you know how to do it okay so
take a look at the screen now wake up in the past woke up or get up in the past
got up in the past got up have breakfast or had breakfast read the newspaper or read the newspaper
check my phone or checked my phone in the past go to the gym to the mall to the park to church
went to the gym went to the mall to the park or to church make lunch made lunch
have lunch had lunch go out for lunch went out for lunch meet friends met friends go to the beach go
to the movies go back home went to the movies went to the beach went back home take my dog for a walk
took my dog for a walk watch tv or watch Netflix watch a movie watched tv watched Netflix
do nothing did nothing do nothing special very common expression did nothing special take a nap
took a nap call my family my friends my mom my boyfriend called in the past stay home stayed
home and remember here you don't separate there's nothing there's no preposition here stay home
stayed home sleep in sleep in is to sleep longer okay later than usual so slept in is the past
then we have some important connectors okay these are words that will help you connect your phrases
here we have very simple ones then and after that or after lunch after dinner after breakfast
this is very common after meals after lunch after breakfast or after that after going to the movies
after cooking after eating lunch this would be possible uh ways if you use after plus a verb
your verb needs to be in the ING form after calling my mother after taking a nap
after doing my homework I watched TV okay in the afternoon in the morning at night on Sunday
morning on Saturday afternoon on Friday night so these are words expressions that you will use to
connect the ideas okay now guys let's suppose I ask you the question how was your last weekend
ah remember I just want to know if it was okay boring great nice you don't need to
give me details or tell me everything you did to answer this question you can say
oh it was great oh it was so boring I did nothing so see I did I gave more information I did nothing
nothing zero boring okay it was boring or it was okay I did nothing special so it was not boring
it was okay I did nothing special Americans say this a lot oh I did nothing special
nothing different it was okay or ah it was fun yes and then the person listening will usually be like
oh wow tell me about it what did you do okay tell me everything I want to know what did you do girl
so these are possible reactions you may hear okay the people listening may have
okay now as I’m trying to help you be more organized the next question would be like
what did you do oh tell me everything what did you do so as I said before in real-life conversations
if you're talking to a colleague or an American friend or an international friend you will usually
continue you will not describe everything you did but in a real-life conversation you will
mention the highlights the most important things you did so if I were having a conversation with a
friend right now and they asked me oh Priscila how was your last weekend and then I would say
oh it was great I i I didn't do anything special so I want to give an example real-life example
so how Priscila how was your last weekend oh it was so much fun I went to the movies with some
friends maybe this is the biggest highlight of my weekend okay it's okay you don't need to have a
super-duper different weekend that was the biggest highlight I saw some friends we went to the movies
I didn't tell them oh I woke up at seven then I had lunch then you know I don't need to do that
if you want to practice you can but that's not usually how it goes in a real-life conversation
so here I have another example okay how was your last weekend oh it was fun oh great what did you
do well let me see oh on Friday I did nothing special you know I got home around eight had dinner
watched Netflix and went to sleep at about midnight nothing special but on Saturday morning I woke
up late as usual but then I met some friends for lunch we went to a really nice Japanese
restaurant downtown and after that we went for a walk and then I went back home that's it
that's the biggest highlight so you see my friend started asking me questions and then I said it
if I want to continue and talk about Sunday I can it's not necessary but if you want to
you can oh yeah I remember on Sunday I went to the movies with a friend it was fun okay
there you have it so in a real-life conversation you're not going to describe every single activity
just the most important ones but for the purpose of organization follow this video practice this
write down Friday night Saturday morning Saturday afternoon Saturday night Sunday morning Sunday
afternoon Sunday night to practice okay to study to study vocabulary okay that's my goal here
now on Sunday oh Sunday I did nothing I woke up late again had breakfast checked my phone
listened to some music and then relaxed in the afternoon um I made some lunch then took
a nap that's pretty much it that's pretty much it to finish the conversation okay
to not to finish the conversation but to finish the to finish your part you finished you were done
describing what you did then it took a nap and well that's pretty much it that's it that's pretty
much it you will listen to native speakers using that a lot especially in the United States okay
as I said before we have two goals here to prepare you for real-life conversation and to help you
remember words study vocabulary and know how to organize yourself in a real-life conversation
you will need to be more specific with what you do so if someone asked me what I did hey Priscila how
was your last weekend oh it was fun I went to my friend's house and I stayed there from Friday to
Sunday we watched a workshop together we were actually studying mostly on Saturday at night
we ordered some pizza we watched some videos on YouTube and then on Sunday we went out we
had lunch at home she made lunch and then in the afternoon we went to the movies there you have it
so you see I just gave you the highlights I didn't tell you that on Saturday I woke up early and then
we started taking the training the the workshop no we had this workshop on Saturday then at night we
ordered some pizza then on Sunday we did nothing special we had lunch together she made lunch
then in the afternoon we went to the movies that's it okay now I want you to practice I want you to
tell me about your last weekend okay remember the organization connecting the phrases connecting
the ideas simple past make sure to conjugate the verbs in the past tense and by the way if you're
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