Learn to talk about plans in English
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| Do you know how to talk about your plans in English? |
| You'll learn how in just a moment. |
| Hi, my name is Alisha, and in this 3.1 level lesson, you'll learn how to discuss where you're meeting through a quick conversation. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| Hi Emily! Some of us are thinking of meeting up this weekend. Do you want to come? |
| Absolutely! I'm in. |
| Alright! Right now, we were thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m. |
| Ah, sorry, I can’t make it by 8. Is it okay if I joined a little later? |
| Sure, that’s no problem. I’ll send you a message with the directions and other details. |
| Here’s my number. You’ll text me, right? I just want to make sure I can reach you just in case. |
| Definitely. Here’s my number just in case you need to reach me. Call or text me anytime. |
| Let's go over the dialogue again, more slowly this time. |
| Hi Emily! Some of us are thinking of meeting up this weekend. Do you want to come? |
| Absolutely! I'm in. |
| Alright! Right now, we were thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m. |
| Ah, sorry, I can’t make it by 8. Is it okay if I joined a little later? |
| Sure, that’s no problem. I’ll send you a message with the directions and other details. |
| Here’s my number. You’ll text me, right? I just want to make sure I can reach you just in case. |
| Definitely. Here’s my number just in case you need to reach me. Call or text me anytime. |
| Let's focus on the key part of the conversation. |
| This character |
| is asking this character |
| if she'd like to join him and a group of friends for dinner. When she says she's interested, he says, |
| Alright! Right now, we were thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m. |
| First, he introduces the basic idea of the plan by saying, |
| We were thinking of meeting up |
| and then he gives explicit details about the invitation at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn how to make these kinds of invitations. |
| Let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern is the structure that our examples will follow. |
| We're thinking of meeting up at [Place]. |
| Let’s see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern. |
| We're thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza. |
| This pattern is often used when casually making plans with friends. |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Susan and I were thinking of meeting up at Union Cinema on Friday at 8:30 p.m. |
| Can you see how the pattern applies here? |
| Now imagine people are talking about where to eat... |
| Some of us were thinking of having lunch at Green Burger on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. |
| Let's try one more, |
| Some of us were thinking of meeting up at City Library on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. |
| Another one. |
| We were thinking of going bowling at 10,000 Lanes on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. |
| One last example. |
| Some of us were thinking of meeting up at Flask Coffee on Monday at 7:00 a.m. |
| Let's review. |
| Do you remember how to order these words to make the sentence pattern we learned? |
| We're |
| We're thinking |
| We're thinking of |
| We're thinking of meeting up |
| We're thinking of meeting up at |
| We're thinking of meeting up at the park. |
| We're thinking of meeting up at the park. |
| Great. Let's do one more sentence. |
| We're |
| We're thinking |
| We're thinking of |
| We're thinking of meeting up |
| We're thinking of meeting up at |
| We're thinking of meeting up at the diner. |
| We're thinking of meeting up at the diner. |
| In this lesson, you learned how to discuss where you're meeting in English. Thanks for watching and see you in the next lesson! |
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