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Every week, I post different kinds of videos to help speakers from all over the world improve their speaking skills and become more confident speakers.

As I always do in this kind of video, I’ll be showing you techniques to help you organize your ideas so that you can talk about your plans for your weekend in English.

So, first, we need vocabulary, we need activities.

I will show you some: visit my family, meet friends, go out with friends, go to the park,

go to a party, travel to the countryside or travel to the beach, have dinner with friends,

go to the movies, clean the house or your room, do the laundry, do homework, read a book,

stay home, go to a birthday party, have a barbecue.

So, guys, these are some popular activities that you can do on the weekend.

Now we need to organize these ideas and make them into sentences.

Let’s think about the weekend.

On the weekend we are usually free on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.

Well, in most countries; in some countries, Sunday is considered a business day.

So in general, people are usually free on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday.

So, when you are talking about your plans, your weekend plans, it's interesting to mention the days, okay?

Let’s build one example, Friday night – go to the movies.

Oh, one thing. If it’s already Friday night and you are going to tell someone about your plans, you don’t need to say on Friday night, you can say "tonight", ok?

But only if it is the night that you are going out already, ok?

Saturday morning – go to the gym and meet friends in the afternoon; Sunday – stay home, do the laundry and watch TV.

Now, that we have the activities, let’s build our sentences, shall we?

So, suppose someone comes to you and asks, "Hey, what are you doing this weekend?"

I’m going to the movies tonight.

On Saturday morning, I’m going to the gym and in the afternoon, I’m meeting my friends.

On Saturday night, I’m going to a birthday party.

On Sunday, I’m staying home. I need to do the laundry and I want to watch TV.

When we are making plans in the future, and these events, these future events are near future events, they are going to happen very soon, we can use the present continuous to talk about it.

"I am meeting my friends."

"I am going to the movies."

"I am visiting a friend tonight."

"I am doing the laundry on Sunday morning."

But if you paid attention, when I was giving you the sentences, I didn’t use "present continuous" all the time.

I used simple present too.

On Sunday, for example, I said I’m staying home. Ok, my future plan.

And then I continued: "I need to do the laundry." Here I’m saying the sentence in the simple present. It is almost an explanation for why I’m staying home.

It is a complement to explain why I am staying home, because I have plans, I have to do the laundry so I’m staying home because of that.

I am giving more details to my plans.

I’m staying home because I need to do the laundry, because I need to do homework, and I want to watch TV.

So you can make a combination of present continuous and simple present to talk about your plans, you give your plan and then you explain it a little bit.

You give more details to your plans.

Let’s see another possibility.

I’m traveling to the countryside this weekend. I want to stay with my family.

We are having a barbecue on Saturday.

I’m going back home on Sunday afternoon.

In this case, I am talking about a trip to the countryside on Saturday on the weekend and then I give a little bit more information.

I am traveling to the countryside because I want to stay with my family.

I wanna visit my family, so here it is in the simple present because I am giving a complement to my plan which is to travel to the countryside.

Then I continue and I say that I’m having, we are having, my family and I are having a barbecue on Saturday afternoon, another plan.

I don’t give more details about it.

After that I finish and say that I’m going back to wherever I am going, I’m going back on Sunday afternoon.

There you go.

This is a basic way to talk about your weekend plans.

I gave you some vocabulary and I gave you some structures, some structure ideas to help you organize your ideas, to help you put them together.

I showed you that we can use present continuous to talk about future plans, when these future plans are very near, they are going to happen very soon, ok.

But I also told you that if you wanna support your plans, explain a little bit more, you can even use simple present, not problems.

Now I have an exercise for you.

What are your plans for the weekend?

Write your plans in the comments and use the strategies that I showed you here in the video and I will make sure to read your comment and give you a feedback.

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