Talking about weekend plans 🏊‍♀️🚴💃 Real Easy English

Hello, I'm Georgie. And I'm Neil. Welcome to Real Easy English  from BBC Learning English.

Every week, we have a real conversation  in easy English to help you learn. You can find the vocabulary from this episode and a text version to read along on our website: BBC Learning English dot com. How are you, Neil?

I'm well, thank you, Georgie. How are you? I am pretty good too, thank you.

I'm very excited for the weekend. Oh, really? Well, today we're talking all about the weekend.

We're going to talk about what we plan to do at the weekend. Great! Let's start.

So, Georgie, do you have any weekend plans? Yes, I do have plans. I'm going to visit my parents at the weekend.

So I'm gonna get the train to my home town. What about you? I don't really have any special plans, but I might spend lots of time doing sport with my kids.

Mm-hm, nice, which sports? Erm, cricket in the summer and football as well. Nice.

So that's what you usually do? That's what I usually do. I usually spend most of the weekend taking my kids to sport.

Do you like it? Actually, I really do. I really do like it.

It's fun to watch them trying their hardest. Ahh, nice. Is there anything else you'd like to do this weekend?

Well, I might meet up with a friend and we might go for some food or maybe just a drink or we might go for a walk or something. Mm, nice! And how about you, Georgie?

What do you plan to do when you get home? Well, we have a lunch on Saturday. And we live in the countryside, so we'll probably go for a walk with the dogs and we're likely to go to the pub as well.

Mm. Is this a typical weekend for you? It's not because I don't usually go home to see my parents.

Most weekends I stay in London. I meet some friends. Yeah.

So this is not a typical weekend, but it's nice to visit my parents. Mm. What are you looking forward to?

— This weekend? — Yeah. I'm really looking forward to spending time in the countryside.

When I'm in London, I really miss the peace and quiet. And I miss my dog, so I'm looking forward to seeing my dog. And it's good to get some fresh air.

Yes, exactly, exactly. So, Georgie, you said you are looking forward to being in the countryside. I did.

And 'looking forward to' means that you're 'excited about something you're going to do in the future'. Exactly, yes. Like I'm looking forward to seeing my dog.

Is your dog looking forward to seeing you? Yes, I'm sure he is. So, Neil, I have quite clear plans.

I know what I'm going to do this weekend. And to talk about plans like that, we usually use 'be going to' or the present continuous. So I said, "I'm going to visit my parents at the weekend".

And sometimes we shorten 'going to' to 'gonna' when we're speaking quickly. Yeah, now, your plans are certain. Mine are not so certain, so I used 'might' and 'may'.

I said I might meet my friend. I may go for a meal or I may go for a drink. It means I'm not completely sure.

Well, Neil, I'm sure whatever you do this weekend, you'll have a nice time. OK, let's look at the vocabulary we learned during the conversation. We learned 'might', which we use to talk about possible plans.

I might meet my friend. 'Going to' which we use to talk about future plans that are a little bit more certain. So I'm going to visit my parents this weekend.

And 'looking forward to' which means 'to be pleased or excited that something is going to happen'. programmes and activities on our  website: BBC Learning English dot com. Bye for now.

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