Emma and Audra show you how to have a natural English conversation about the weekend. Do you know what “TGIF” means? What about “sleep in,” “run errands,” or “binge on a show”? In this lesson, I teach you ten essential English expressions that native speakers use to talk about the weekend — every single week. These are expressions you’ll hear at work, at school, and with friends. I’ll also explain the difference between British and American English when talking about the weekend. At the end, you can listen to a real English conversation with my sister, Audra. After you’ve watched, leave a comment telling me about your weekend. https://www.engvid.com/real-english-conversation-how-to-talk-about-the-weekend/
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In this lesson:
0:00 Talking about the weekend
0:55 "Any plans for the weekend?"
2:58 "What did you do this weekend?"
5:22 Common weekend activities
10:44 Listening practice with Audra

Transcript:
So, Audra, whatd 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.

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 Im talking about the weekend, Im talking about Saturday and Sunday. So, a lot of the times on Fridays and Mondays, people talk about the weekend. So, its very important to know vocabulary and expressions about the weekend because its such a common part of conversation. So, lets 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?" Its 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, whos 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 its Friday". We say this because we are so happy its Friday. No more work, its 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 favourite. 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. Youll hear "So, whatd 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 use contractions or we shorten words, so "What did you do this weekend?" actually becomes "Whatd you do this weekend?" And this is really hard for English language learners because, you know, they hear this and they dont realize the "what" means "what did". Okay? So be careful about this. "So, whatd you do this weekend?"

You might hear somebody ask "How was your weekend?" 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 were talking about 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 didnt get up to much". This means I didnt do anything, really. I didnt do a lot. Nothing special. So, "I didnt get up to much this weekend." Its 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 didnt get up to much this weekend."
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