Overview
This lesson focuses on English vocabulary and phrasal verbs related to weekend activities, including how to discuss past weekends and future plans.
Talking About Past Weekends
- Use simple past tense to discuss previous or last weekend activities.
- Common questions: "Did you have a nice weekend?" "How was your weekend?" "What did you do last weekend?"
- Follow-up questions: "What did you do?" "Where did you go?" "Who did you see?" "Did you like/enjoy it?"
Talking About Weekend Plans
- Ask about future plans with: "Do you have any plans for the weekend?" or "What are you up to this weekend?"
- Use "going to" (future continuous) to describe immediate future plans: "We're going to go hiking," "I'm going to relax."
Useful Expressions for Weekend Activities
- "Had a night in" means staying home and relaxing.
- "Had a great night out" means going out for fun, like dining or clubbing.
Phrasal Verbs for Weekend Activities
- To clean up — tidy or clean an area, e.g., "We cleaned up the garden."
- To tidy up — organize or put things in order, e.g., "We tidied up the rooms."
- To stay in — remain at home instead of going out.
- To chill out — relax, often at home or watching TV.
- To wind down — gradually relax after a busy week.
- To have someone over — invite a guest to your home.
- To flick through — quickly look through TV channels, magazines, or photos.
- To meet up — arrange to see friends, usually informally.
- To catch up with — meet and talk to someone to share recent news.
- To bump into / run into — meet someone unexpectedly.
Key Terms & Definitions
- Simple Past — verb tense for finished actions in the past
- Going to — phrase for expressing near-future intentions or plans
- Night in — an evening spent at home
- Night out — an evening spent outside home, typically for enjoyment
- Phrasal Verb — a verb combined with a preposition or adverb to create a new meaning
Action Items / Next Steps
- Review and practice using these phrasal verbs in sentences about your own weekend.
- Try answering and asking questions about past and future weekends using the correct tense and expressions.