Weekend Plans 😎 | Slow English Podcast | Episode 1 | English With Us Podcast | With Subtitles

Speaker 1 English with Us podcast. Hello everyone. I hope you all are doing amazing today. Welcome and welcome back to English with Us podcast. My name is David. Speaker 2 Hello David and hello everyone. I am so happy today because I love weekends. I work all week and then I finally get my weekend. This weekend I want to see friends and also rest. So today we will talk about weekend plans. Speaker 1 Perfect Emma. Today we will learn simple English for weekend plans. We will practice easy phrases to talk about what you will do, where you will go, and who you will go with. Speaker 2 David, quick question. What is a plan? Speaker 1 A plan is something you decide to do. It is your idea for the future. Future means time after now. Speaker 2 So a plan is like I will do this later. Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. Now when people talk about weekend plans, they often say I want to, I plan to, or I am going to. These are very common. Speaker 2 OK, I want to start with Friday night. Is Friday night part of the weekend? Speaker 1 For many people, yes, Friday night is the evening. On Friday, people feel free after work or after school. Free means not working and not busy. Speaker 2 I feel free on Friday night too. I usually order food and watch a show. Speaker 1 Nice order food means you ask a restaurant to bring food to you. What do you like to order? Speaker 2 I like pizza. It is easy and warm. Warm means not cold. Speaker 1 Good. Now let's move to Saturday. What do you plan to do on Saturday morning? Speaker 2 On Saturday morning, I plan to sleep in. Speaker 1 Sleep in means wake up later than usual. Quick check, if you sleep in, do you wake up at 6:00 AM? Speaker 2 No, I wake up later, like 9 or 10 in the morning. Speaker 1 Right. I do not sleep in much. I wake up early, even on weekends. Speaker 2 Wow, why do you wake up early? Speaker 1 It is my habit. Habit means something you do often. I like a calm morning. Calm means relaxed and quiet. Speaker 2 I like calm mornings too, but I also love my bed. Speaker 1 Fair. After you sleep in, what is next? Speaker 2 I want to meet my friend for brunch. Speaker 1 Brunch is a meal between breakfast and lunch. It is often around late morning. Speaker 2 Yes, we usually go at 11. We talk and laugh, it feels nice. Speaker 1 Who is your friend? Speaker 2 Her name is Lily. She lives near me in New York City. Speaker 1 Great, now what do you say when you invite someone? Invite means ask someone to join you. Speaker 2 I say, do you want to get brunch with me on Saturday? Speaker 1 Good. Another friendly phrase is do you want to hang out? Hang out means spend time together in a relaxed way. Speaker 2 I say hang out a lot. Lily says it too. Speaker 1 Nice. Now what if Lily says I am busy? What do you do? Speaker 2 I ask, are you free on Sunday? Speaker 1 Perfect, that is simple and polite. Now, Emma, do you ever have errands on the weekend? Speaker 2 Yes, I do. Errands are small tasks outside your home, like going to the store or picking up a package. Speaker 1 Good. Tell me one errand. You often do just one. Speaker 2 I often buy groceries. Groceries are food and things you buy at a supermarket. Speaker 1 Quick check if you buy groceries. Are you buying food or are you buying a concert ticket? Speaker 2 I am buying food, not a concert ticket. Speaker 1 Correct. I also buy groceries on Saturday. I like to cook on weekends. Speaker 2 What do you cook? Speaker 1 I cook rice and vegetables. Vegetables are plants we eat like carrots. Carrots are orange vegetables. I also cook chicken sometimes. Speaker 2 I cook pasta. Pasta is food like noodles. Noodles are long pieces of pasta. I like it with tomato sauce. Speaker 1 Nice sauce is a thick liquid you put on food for flavor. Flavor means taste. Speaker 2 David, sometimes my weekend plans change. Is that normal? Speaker 1 Very normal plans change when something happens, for example weather can change or you feel tired. Speaker 2 In New York, weather changes a lot. If it rains, I might stay inside. Speaker 1 Good word might means maybe. It means you are not 100% sure. Speaker 2 So I might stay inside, means maybe I will stay inside. Speaker 1 Yes, another common phrase is something came up. It means an unexpected thing happened. Unexpected means you did not know it would happen. Speaker 2 Like sorry I cannot go. Something came up. Speaker 1 Exactly that is very common. Speaker 2 David, quick check if something came up, was it planned? Speaker 1 No, it was not planned. Speaker 2 OK. Speaker 1 Now let's talk about fun plans. Some people go out and some people stay home. What is your favorite kind of weekend, Emma? Speaker 2 I like a mix. Mix means some different things together. I like 1 fun activity and 1 quiet time. Speaker 1 Good. Give me an example of a fun activity. Speaker 2 Going to a museum. A museum is a place where you see art or history. History means things from the past. Speaker 1 Nice, Do you like art museums or science museums? Speaker 2 I like art museums. Art is paintings and creative work. Speaker 1 Great. In San Francisco, I like walking by the ocean. Ocean is a very large body of water. It is bigger than a lake. Speaker 2 I love the ocean too, but I do not see it every day in New York. Speaker 1 Right. Different cities, different plans. That gives learners more variety. Speaker 2 David, what about money? Some weekend plans cost money. Speaker 1 Yes, let's use one important word, budget. Budget is a plan for how much money you will spend. Speaker 2 So if I have a small budget, I should not spend a lot? Speaker 1 Correct. Small budget means you want to spend less. You can choose cheaper plans. Cheaper means lower cost. Speaker 2 Like a wok is cheap, a fancy dinner is not cheap. Speaker 1 Right. Fancy means special and often expensive. Speaker 2 I like fancy sometimes, but not every weekend. Speaker 1 That is smart. Now another weekend word is relax. Relax means rest your body and mind. Speaker 2 I relax by watching a movie at home. Speaker 1 I relax by reading. Read means look at words in a book and understand them. Speaker 2 Do you go out with friends on weekends? Speaker 1 Sometimes I like small plans. Small plans means not too many things in one day. Speaker 2 I sometimes plan too much and then I feel tired. Speaker 1 That happens. Tired means you need rest. One simple idea is to leave space in your day. Space means open time with no plan. Speaker 2 So I can say Saturday afternoon is free time. Speaker 1 Yes, free time is time when you can choose what to do. Speaker 2 David, can we practice a short planning talk like real friends do? Speaker 1 Yes, I will tell you my plan and you ask me questions. Speaker 2 OK. Speaker 1 On Saturday evening, I plan to meet my friend for dinner. Speaker 2 Where are you going? Speaker 1 We are going to a small noodle place. It gets crowded. Crowded means many people in one place. Speaker 2 What time will you go? Speaker 1 We will go at 6:00 PM to avoid the crowd. Avoid means try not to have something. Speaker 2 Nice, now my plan. On Sunday morning I might go to the park. Speaker 1 Good. Why might you go to the park? Speaker 2 Because I want fresh air. Fresh air means clean air. Outside it feels good. Speaker 1 And who might you go with? Speaker 2 I might go alone. Alone means by yourself. Speaker 1 Quick check if you go alone, are you with a big group? Speaker 2 No, I am by myself. Speaker 1 Correct. Speaker 2 David, what do you do on Sunday night? Speaker 1 On Sunday night, I prepare for Monday. Prepare means get ready. I check my calendar. Calendar is a list of dates and events. Speaker 2 I prepare to. I do laundry. Laundry is washing clothes. Speaker 1 Great laundry is a very useful word. Do you also clean your room? Speaker 2 Yes, sometimes a clean room makes me feel calm. Speaker 1 Nice. Now one more keyword is schedule. A schedule is a list of times and plans. Do you make a schedule? Speaker 2 Sometimes if I have many errands, I make a schedule so I do not forget. Speaker 1 Forget means not remember quick check. If you forget something, do you remember it? Speaker 2 No, I do not remember it. Speaker 1 Right. Speaker 2 David, I have a question for learners. If I say I want to, is it always a plan? Speaker 1 Not always I want to is a wish I plan to is more decided, but both are useful. Speaker 2 OK. And I might is not sure. Speaker 1 Yes, I might, is maybe. Speaker 2 This helps a lot. Weekend plans are a common topic at work, too. Speaker 1 Exactly. People often ask what are you doing this weekend? You can answer with simple sentences. Speaker 2 Like I am going to brunch or I plan to rest. Speaker 1 Yes, and you can also ask back to keep the conversation going. Keep going means continue. Speaker 2 So I can say, how about you? Speaker 1 Perfect. Wow, that was a very, very long and detailed conversation about weekend plans. Now let's have a quick review of today's lesson. Speaker 2 We talked about the weekend, which is usually Saturday and Sunday and sometimes Friday night. We said weekend plans are things you decide to do in your free time. We. Speaker 1 Practiced easy phrases. I want to for a wish, I plan to for a clear plan and I might for maybe we also used. I am going to to talk about a plan in a simple way. Speaker 2 We learned useful words through the conversation. We talked about brunch, which is a meal between breakfast and lunch. We talked about errands, which are small tasks like buying groceries. Speaker 1 We talked about plans changing. We used the phrase something came up, which means an unexpected thing happened. We also talked about weather and feeling tired. Speaker 2 We also talked about budget. Budget is a plan for how much money you will spend. We said cheap plans can be a walk and fancy plans can cost more. Speaker 1 And we used words like relax, schedule, prepare and alone. Relax means rest schedule is your plan by time. Prepare means get ready for Monday. Alone means by yourself. Speaker 2 So now learners can answer the question, what are your weekend plans with simple and clear English? Speaker 1 Your final homework for this lesson Comment one to two sentences in the comment section about your weekend plans. Use. I plan to or I might. Speaker 2 Example one I plan to buy groceries and cook dinner on Saturday. Example 2. I might visit a museum on Sunday. Speaker 1 Thank you everyone for watching and don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel and we can't wait to read all your comments. Speaker 2 Keep practicing and see you later in the next video.