Lesson 30: Unit 88 - Future Activities. Making Arrangements.
Learn how to ask about plans, and how to make, decline and accept invitations in English, using the future forms will, going to and the Present Continuous correctly.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will get to know a real dialogue between two friends – Meg and Ella – and learn useful phrases for making arrangements. You will master expressions for asking about plans, making invitations, declining politely and accepting an invitation. You will understand the difference between will, going to and the Present Continuous when expressing the future, and exactly when each of them is used. The practice includes exercises taken directly from the course material, so that you consolidate your knowledge in a real context.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Use phrases for asking whether someone is free or has plans
- Invite someone in a formal and an informal way
- Decline or accept an invitation with appropriate expressions
- Distinguish between the uses of will, going to and the Present Continuous for the future
- Recognise the Present Simple for timetables and schedules
- Hold a short dialogue about planning activities
Lesson vocabulary
- arrangement Shall we go to the SPA center together? I'll arrange a date and time.
- fancy (doing sth) Do you fancy coming shopping with me?
- tutorial I'm having a tutorial tomorrow afternoon. It begins at 8 a.m.
- global warming I have to finish the project on global warming by Wednesday.
- colleague Some gossips about our new colleague.
- fashionable I want to buy something fashionable – a dress maybe.
- aroma therapy I'll arrange the best aroma therapy, if you like.
- turn down (an invitation) Don't turn down my invitation – come with me!
- I'm afraid I'm afraid I haven't got much time tonight.
- I wonder if you'd like to... I wondered if you'd like to come out for a meal?
- maybe we could Maybe we could go out in the evening.
- I promise I promise we'll go wherever you like.
- give someone a ring I'll give you a ring when I return.
- leave for I'm leaving for the countryside on Monday morning.
- That would really be great Shall we go to the SPA center? – That would really be great.
In other languages: Български