Topic

Weekend & Free Time

Plans, invitations, what people do in their free time.

What learners practise

Weekend conversations introduce the going to future in a context learners care about. The exercise on this page uses informal language between two friends who share plans, accept and decline invitations and settle on a time and a place.

Before listening, ask each learner to write down one real weekend plan. Run the audio twice: once for gist, once for the time and place. After checking, swap plans with a partner and role-play an invitation that includes one acceptance and one polite refusal.

Listening skills and classroom ideas

  • Follow informal invitations, suggestions and responses in the second person.
  • Recognise the going to future in short affirmative and negative statements.
  • Catch time phrases such as on Saturday, around three, in the afternoon.
  • After the task, learners invite a partner to a new activity and accept or decline.

See the guide to designing listening activities

Exercises 1

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