hello my name is emma and today i am
going to teach you
some very important expressions and
vocabulary
about the weekend i
love the weekend when i'm talking about
the weekend
i'm talking about saturday and sunday
so a lot of the times on fridays and
mondays
people talk about the weekend so it's
very important to know
vocabulary and expressions about the
weekend because it's such
a common part of conversation
so let's look at some examples of
weekend vocabulary
so on friday and notice i have on
a lot of students make mistakes with
this
but the preposition we use with days of
the week is the word on
so on friday people often ask
this question do you
have any plans for the weekend
do you have any plans for the weekend
or they might not ask do you have they
might just say
any plans for the weekend it's a very
common question people ask
on fridays and what they want is for you
to talk about your plans for the weekend
what are you going to do on saturday
what are you going to do on sunday
now another thing you might see on
friday
is sometimes people say tgif
or they might write it somewhere
my sister audra who's going to help us
in a little bit and i often
text each other this tgif every friday
we write each other this
what does it mean it means thank
goodness or thank god
it's friday we say this because we are
so happy it's friday no more work
it's the weekend we can relax so tgif
another expression we might talk about
on a friday
is the word long weekend
a long weekend is a weekend that is
three days so it might be friday
saturday and sunday where you have it
off work
or it might be saturday sunday monday
so if you have a three-day weekend
we call that a long weekend
long weekends are my favorite i love
long weekends so
we talk about this on friday we do our
thing on the weekend
and then on monday most people go back
to school or work
and this is often one of the first
questions
you will hear on monday you'll hear
so what'd you do this weekend and notice
i have what with an apostrophe and a d
the d here stands for did
so this can also be what did
you do this weekend but in conversation
we often um use contractions
or we shorten words so what did you do
this weekend actually becomes what do
you do this weekend
and this is really hard for english
language learners
because you know they hear this and
they don't realize the what means what
did
okay so be careful about this so what'd
you do this weekend
you might hear somebody ask how was your
weekend
uh you might hear this question did you
get up to
anything this weekend the word
or the expression get up to is
a very common expression and it just
means
do okay so we use it when we're talking
about
um activities we did in the past
so did you get up to anything this
weekend means
did you do anything this weekend
so they have the same meaning did you
get up to anything this weekend
did you do anything this weekend
if you hear somebody ask this question
one thing you can say
is you can use get up to in your
response
you can say i didn't get up too much
this means i didn't do anything really i
didn't do a lot
nothing special so i didn't get up too
much
this weekend it's funny with this
expression
because we only use it in the negative
we do not say i got up to a lot
we would say i did a lot but
in terms of when we use get up to we
only use it in the negative form i
didn't get up too much this weekend
so now we are going to look at some
common activities we do on the weekend
and we are going to do a listening
activity with my sister
audra okay so there are many things you
can do on the weekend
i'm going to give some examples of some
things
i like to do during the weekend before i
begin
i just wanted to say one thing there is
a difference between british english and
american english when we're talking
about the weekend
in british english we can say at the
weekend
in north american english we say on the
weekend
so both at or on are correct depending
on where you live and where you're
speaking english so let's get started on
common plans
we talk about or common plans
for the weekend now the first thing i
wanted to talk about is
brunch brunch is very popular in north
america
and other countries as well brunch is a
meal
people often have brunch at restaurants
and if you notice i've put equals
breakfast plus lunch
so brunch is between breakfast and lunch
it's usually around 10 a.m or 11 a.m
and people especially on sundays
people often go for brunch okay so you
can say
on sunday i had brunch with my family
on sunday i had brunch with some friends
so you'll hear people talk a lot about
brunch in north america
another thing people often do and i do
this a lot
during the weekend is we binge
on tv shows so some people have netflix
some people have hulu
some people have maybe dvds
or some show they're watching when we
binge on something it means we do too
much of something
so if you binge on a tv show
it means you watch a lot of episodes
of a tv show back to back so for example
when i was watching game of thrones i
binged on game of thrones sometimes i
watched
four episodes in a row and my whole
saturday
was spent binging on game of thrones
so this is a common expression you might
hear people talk about
when they're talking about the weekend
another thing people often do on the
weekend
is they run errands so the past tense of
run is ran
so on saturday i ran some errands
what does this mean well aaron's is a
big term
that covers many different activities
errands include doing groceries um
you know maybe getting a new cell phone
charger
it's those little small tasks you have
to do
so those are errands maybe you have to
pay a bill
and you have to go somewhere instead of
saying what each task
is you can just say errands okay so
errands is another word for task
what do you have to do on the weekend i
ran some errands a lot of people
meet up with their friends or family
so this means that they see their
friends or family
so i can say on saturday i met up with
some friends
i went to a bbq or a barbecue
bbq is the short form of the word
barbecue
um we often talk about things we
get caught up on so this might be a new
expression
sometimes in life we feel like we're
behind
our week is very busy and so we need
to have some time to catch up
or to get things done that we didn't
have time
to get done during the week so let's
look at some examples of things we get
caught
up on we can get caught up on school
work
so this means during the week i didn't
have time to do some
some school work now i have time so i
get
caught up on school work i get caught up
on
housework so maybe during the week i
couldn't do my laundry
now i can i have time so i get
caught up on housework
maybe you have a job where you have to
do projects during the weekend
you can say i got caught up on work
for some people during the week they
only get five hours of sleep
so maybe they like to sleep late
or take naps on the weekend so they can
say i got caught up on
sleep many people
like to sleep in on the weekend this
means
they do not wake up early they sleep
late so on saturday i like to sleep in
and slept is the past tense of sleep
finally some people just say they
relaxed on the weekend
so now we are going to do
a listening activity i've taught you
many words about the weekend
i'm going to bring my sister on and
we're going to talk about
her weekend and what she does okay
so now we are going to practice what we
learned
i'd like to invite my sister audra over
here
to help us uh with our conversation so
come on out audra
thank you for being here today no
problem
so audra what'd you do this weekend
well on saturday i had a family barbecue
and everyone came over we had burgers
and steak
and lots and lots of cake wow
did you do anything else on saturday i
did i actually went out for coffee
with my best friend christine and we did
a bit of shopping
and it was really really lovely great
and what about on sunday
what'd you get up to on sunday so on
sunday i did something a bit exciting i
went to a sewing class
and i made a fabric basket a
fabric basket okay so audra is going to
show us her creation let's see what
audra made
not only is she beautiful but she is
very talented
thank you did you do anything else on
sunday
uh i think that was about it for for
sunday i do
have some errands to do when i get home
i will be doing
laundry okay and what about
what time did you wake up during the
weekend did you sleep in
i did not sleep in i woke up around 7 30
in the morning which is quite early i
wish i could have slept in until 11am
that would have been much better do you
usually sleep in on weekends
i do not i get up quite early i normally
wake up
at 6 a.m during the week on weekends i
could say i sleep in until 7 30 a.m
ideally i would like to sleep in until
11am
wow so my last question for you audra
is about brunch i know
my sister audra loves brunch
sometimes we go to brunch together
so when do you usually do brunch
my friend lou and i often do brunch on
the weekends
on sunday morning we go out for brunch
and we try different places and we get
to try
many different types of food all right
well thank you so much audra thanks for
telling us all about your weekend
no problem thank you for having me so
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