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Weekends

Contractions and Abbreviations

Date: Apr 20 2012

Themes: Friend, Time

Grammar: Contractions and Abbreviations

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You’ve waited all week for this. It’s the weekend! Now what are you going to do? You’d better decide quickly. It will be over before you know it.

The weekend is your time to relax and enjoy yourself. But it can also be a stressful time. The weekend is when you have to do all those chores and errands that you didn’t have time for during the week. And don’t forget to spend some quality time with your family!

Hear about Jason and Amy’s weekend plans.

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Amy

Jason

Amy: What are your plans this weekend, Jason?

Jason: I am gonna do my taxes.

Amy: Oh, alright.

Jason: And I’m actually gonna go to a birthday party, and I’m gonna go to a soccer game.

Amy: Well, that’s a good variety of weekend activities.

Jason: Yeah.

Amy: I hate it when your weekend is just all taken up with chores, you know?

Jason: Yeah. It’s a drag when the weekend is over and you feel like you haven’t relaxed at all.

Amy: I know. Really, two days is not long enough for a weekend in my opinion. Every weekend should be three days.

Jason: Yeah. Those three day weekends are amazing, with the difference it makes.

Amy: Yeah.

Jason: I do know someone who would work really long days four days a week, just so he could have three day weekends every week.

Amy: Uh-huh. Well, I can understand that, ‘cause often Sunday doesn’t even feel like a weekend day, because you’re already thinking about Monday.

Jason: Yeah, I see my friends do that a lot. They’re really worried, maybe even Saturday night, they’re worried about working on Monday. They’re like, “Oh, I better turn in early, ‘cause I’m gonna have to work soon.”

Amy: Oh, man.

Jason: Yeah. It’s kind of over before it starts sometimes, the weekend.

Amy: At least this weekend, I have a pool party to go to.

Jason: Yes!

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Discussion

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Amy asks Jason about his weekend plans. He says he is going to do his taxes, go to a birthday party, and go to a soccer game.

Amy hates it when the weekend involves nothing but chores. Sometimes, when people are busy working during the week, they have to spend the weekend catching up on housework and errands.

Jason loves having three day weekends. With a two day weekend, it can sometimes feel like half the weekend is taken up with worrying about going back to work.

Amy agrees that a three day weekend would be a big improvement on the two day weekend. But at least she has exciting weekend plans. She’s going to a pool party!

What are your weekend plans? What kinds of things do you usually like to do on the weekend? Do you usually have to do a lot of chores on the weekend?

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juniorqiu

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

I am anxous the weedend coming . because we have only one day weekend in a week. after six days hard working . there is one day to relax and have fun with my family is a great thing to me . i don’t like chores but i have to do this kind of errands in every day after office hour , since my wife push me to do these things every day when i go back home . one thing can make me happy even i have to do such errands , it is to paly with my little daugther.

khalid495

Saudi Arabia

I usually spend quality time with my spouse talking about what has happened during the week and what we are going in the rest of the of it … we also go shopping at weekends, having a dinner at fancy restaurant and sometimes trying to finish some errands.

Carla Cristina Fagundes

Brazil

I love weekends! It’s a time I use to relax, to distract my mind!
I study very much during the week, I have a lot of chores… it’s stressful, so I try to enjoy these two days, I devote them to myself…hahaha

This weekend I’m going to an assembly based on biblical topics and I’m very happy! :D

Mars777

Latvia

I like my weekends.Sometimes weekends is to short. only two days. I waiting for May big weekend. i ting 4 days is very long weekend.

vanityisperfection

Poland

I love weekends!

broken-bursa@

Turkey

I have been studying university entering exam on every days of week and weekend for a year.Therefore I missed to holiday

diva87

Morocco

this weekend is nightmare for me cuz barca is lost match – -

atsu_t

Japan

On weekends, I like to have relax times with good dishes and drink. A cup of beer makes me relax and bliss.

Aaron_In_Korea

United States

@Crizsearch, yes Indonesian grammar is quite easy and once you know the root words it is relatively easy to deduce the meaning of other words. However the words are not always easy to remember for an English speaker’s mind. Compared to German (the other language I learned), it is pretty easy. I hope eventually I will speak it fluently :)

aysana

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

ON THE WEEKEND I USUAULLY GO TO MY GRAND MOTHERS’HOUSE.THEY ARE VERY NICE AND FRIENDLY.I LOVE THEM.SOME TIMES WE GO TO SHOPPING OR SEASIDE .ILOVE WEKLENDS BECAUSE IDON’T GO TO SCHOOL…......................

Lerntrude

Germany

On my weekends I go out for a walk, I meed my friends for a drink. I usally do the shopping.

tar_ban

Saudi Arabia

in saudi arabia thursday and friday are weekend not like all whole world.
we hope to change this by goverment .

but still Friday is holyday For All Muslims in the world

for that the best way is weekend ( Friday and Saturday )

Vertigo

Macedonia

Weekend with a great weather here. Sunny and warm. I’m going to use it for playing football with friends (yes yes i know it’s sounds like “typical” thing for boys …). Then spending some time with family and some walk. Those are the plans.

samirah

Saudi Arabia

It will be a great weekend ,when i do my fav sports .especially when i mounting horseback .I think 2 days are enough. sometimes rat race is healing for people in order to forget life sourness!

wangyao123

China

good words ,very useful

i have to finish my homework on weekends

farid1390

Afghanistan

iammee

Thailand

Yes, i have to do a lot of chores on 2 days weekend!

Andressa Holland

Brazil

And, talking about nature, on April 22 will be the Earth Day, so…

HAPPY EARTH DAY and enjoy that day looking the nature around you, looking to the sky, to the clowns, to the color of the sky and to the moon. Look with attention at what you usually don’t value. Try to apreciate that beauty!

Try to care of the little piece of nature that is around you! ;)

And enjoy this end of the weekend with that wonderful beauty, valuing that finite gift that we still have! ;)

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

I imagine myself took photos of many of the landscaping,
I imagine myself how to enjoy my life and life it

They are trying to kill me in In isolation
I hate earth where people pass, at least,Because of them I could hate the earth.
A lot of people dont have a sense of nature neither the moon
For me it is the death.