Real English: Using WHEN & WHERE to Make Plans
Are you feeling like a day out with a friend? Great! Let me teach you how to arrange a meeting so you can have a chance to practise your English together! In this lesson, I will teach you some of the vocabulary you need to make plans. We will cover all the essential details, such as when, meaning the time of the meeting, and where, meaning the location. After watching, make sure to do the quiz at www.engvid.com/real-english-us... to check your understanding of the lesson. Have a fun day out!
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Hi. I'm Gill from www.engvid.com, and today we have a lesson on quite a nice social subject: "Making Arrangements to Meet a Friend". Okay? And the idea is that this friend is an English-speaking friend. They may be English, or American, or Canadian, or they may speak another language, but you and they can only communicate in English. Maybe they're Chinese and you're Spanish or something, and the only language you have in common is English. But either way, you have to communicate in English, and this is one of the best ways to learn English, is to have friends who speak English, and have to communicate with them in English. So please make friends with English speakers, because apart from being friends, it will be very good for your language learning. Okay, right.
So, first of all say you're phoning your friend and you're saying... First of all, you're not going to just go straight in and say: "Let's arrange to meet." You want to first of all say things like: "Hi! How are you?" because if they're not very well, it's not a good idea to start making arrangements to meet. So, just socially you need to say: "Hello. How are you? How is everything going? I haven't seen you for a while. Shall we meet up? Are you free to meet up?" "To meet up" is to meet, but we often say "meet up", with the "up" preposition. "Shall we meet up?" And the "shall" is used when you make a suggestion. "Shall we? Shall we do something?" Okay?
So once you've done your little introductory part and they're feeling well, and they want to meet you and go somewhere interesting, we can move on to the second part, you need to decide when. When are you both free? Okay, so you might say: "When are you free?" and they might say: "Oh, well, I'm free on Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning, Saturday afternoon", so you decide between yourselves which is the best time for both of you. "I'm free on" and the day. Okay? You use "on" with the day. "I'm free on Tuesday, on Saturday". Okay? And then just to check: "Is that okay for you?" You have to check with the other person: Is that okay for them as well? And then if they say: -"Yes." -"Great. Great." Useful word: "Great", whenever you're pleased about something. "Great."
So, you've got the day, you now need to decide on the time. "What time shall we meet?" Again, using "shall" as the suggestion. "What time shall we meet?" And because you're meeting a friend, you don't want to make it like: "Oh, I start work at 9:30 in the morning, I have to be there." This is a nice, social occasion. You don't have to say: "Be there at 2 o'clock." As it's a friend and it's a social meeting, you can be a little bit more casual about it and say: "Oh, around... Around 2 o'clock", which means just before 2, just after 2. "Around" is a very useful word for time. "Let's meet around 2 o'clock." Okay? So you've decided on the day and the time.
So thirdly, you have to then decide where to meet, somewhere interesting maybe that you haven't been before. "Where shall we meet?" So "shall" again. "Where shall we meet?" And your friend might suggest: -"Oh, an art gallery. I haven't been to that art gallery for a while. Shall we meet there? Have you ever been there?" -"No, I haven't been to that one." -"Oh, okay then. Well, let's meet there. I think you'd like it." Okay?
So, once you've decided on the location, the art gallery... An art gallery is a big place, and there's an outside and an inside. You have to decide exactly where, so: "Whereabouts?" is a useful word. "Whereabouts?" It's just like saying: "Where? Where shall we meet around the building? Whereabouts shall we meet? Inside or outside?" But if it's in the UK, because of the weather, it's not always a good idea to meet outside somewhere because it could be bad weather, so you say: "In case it's raining, in case it's cold it might be better to meet inside", so you can be dry and warm while you're waiting for your friend. So: "In case" means "if", "if". It might be raining, it might be cold, so: "In case it's raining, in case it's cold, we'd better meet inside." Okay? Always a good idea. And you can sit down as well usually if you want to.
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@chokrijari3202
6 жыл бұрын
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@pedroperez-by7jt
7 жыл бұрын
Germany 7 brazil 1 can you translate this to me?
@wjld
7 жыл бұрын
pedro perez . This is written "temos 1 manezão 7 vezes aqui" in Brazilian Spanish. :·)
@pedroperez-by7jt
7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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@carlenger9707
4 жыл бұрын
@@pedroperez-by7jt that's weird
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Very useful lesson, as always. Thank you Miss Gill.
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@AliHassan-sm5pu
3 жыл бұрын
Hello
hello and thanks for your invaluable support. Could I ask you to arrange a lesson based on the use of the passive in English please? I sometimes have some issue understanding when the action is passive or not and when I have to use by or from... thanks in advance. Andrea
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Hey Gill, I love your lessons, you are such a lovely lady! "Let's arrange to meet!" :) Just kidding, keep up the amazing work!
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You're the best! Thank you very much, I so adore your lessons! It really helped me to learn a lot of things I didn't know before. By the way, are the all British people saying "okay" so much times, like you do? No, I'm just curious. (-:
@aigulru11
7 жыл бұрын
Hi, I had lots of English teachers and many of them used "ok" quite often.
i like u said 'hi im j' and 'bye'..smooth sound..anyway tq teacher..
Never looked at a teacher teacher standing in front of a board and explaining sumthing and cries cry ,maybe its the topic and my situatiom but maybe its the beautifull way she brought it
Thank you .very good lesson you gave but it is difficult to find a friend another country .how can we do this?
Nice :)
When contacting an English English speaker, always remember we never say what we actually think or feel. You have to learn the rules that only exist in our heads. It's impossible, by the way!
if I say "looking forward to see you!" is good as well?
@annaledain5437
7 жыл бұрын
Paco Toledo yep thats very good. looking forward to seeing you
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Hello thanks a lot for class. I have question why does englishman say looking forward to seeing you. We were taught that after to use always infinite. for example I am happy to see you,but here instead of saying looking forward to see you, you are using looking forward to seeing you. why do you use gerund here?
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These lessons are usefull for me, but I'm in desperate need for a more advanced series of lessons as well. I can read most English literature for example, still a novel like 'Lord Jim' is to difficult for me. Can some one provide me with a link to similar but more advanced lessons on KZread?
@camille9475
7 жыл бұрын
You can check out at the Engvid website actually ;) there are a few more teachers and videos of different levels of English learning.
Great! A question, is it possible to put a "to" before a "...ing"? (to seeing). Grazie! Molto brava! Vero inglese!
@engvidGill
7 жыл бұрын
Hi, yes, in constructions like this one: looking forward to seeing you, looking forward to playing football, looking forward to hearing my favourite song. The 'to' part belongs with 'looking forward to', which is followed by a verb with the -ing ending. I hope this helps to clarify. All the best with your English studies :-)
@engvidGill
7 жыл бұрын
... sorry about the crossing out -- I don't know why that happened, and I can't edit it out :-(
@parigino60
7 жыл бұрын
Perfect! Thanks for clarification! (Phrasal verb: looking forward to). Ciao!
@parigino60
7 жыл бұрын
:-)
I know that to say for example "around two o'clock" instead of using "around" you can say "twoish"
Dear Gill, yes you might be right when you say someone has to be tolerant about the time when they plan to meet up, but possibly that's true in a big city. I live in a town and most friends of mine are always late, and I get annoyed. It's nice not to understimate someone else's time. I find it disrespectful.
Is it customary in England to meet in a basement?
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Canadian is American too.
As far as I am concerned "shall" is no longer commonly used or am I wrong?
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@salfm08
7 жыл бұрын
* watching after a preposition (to, on, of) you always use the verb in the -ING form.