Week 9 - A night out (BASIC ENGLISH 1)

Week 9 - A night out (BASIC ENGLISH 1)

Welcome to the lesson!

Learning outcomes

•Prepare a conversation taking the role of two friends trying to plan a night out and practice accepting or declining invitations skills, or changing the plan, by using time phrases to schedule the date of the outing, recording and editing an animated video.

Making plans

Your phone buzzes… one of your English speaking friends has sent you a message asking if you’d like to get dinner this weekend. You frantically Google Translate your responses. 

Telling the time

There are two common ways of telling the time.

1) Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes)

Telling the time

2) Say the minutes first and then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour)

Multiple Choice

¿Que hora es?

• Son las doce.

• Son las dos.

• Son las cuatro.

Multiple Choice

What time is it.?

• it´s five o´clock

• it´s seven o´clock

• it´s half past seven.

Multiple Choice

it´s half past one.

Multiple Choice

¿Que hora es?

• Son las doce.

• Son las seis.

• Son las doce y media.

Multiple Choice

What time is it.?

• it´s three o´clock

• it´s half past nine.

• it´s nine o´clock.

Multiple Choice

it´s half past seven

Multiple Choice

it´s five o´clock

Multiple Choice

What time is it.?

• it´s six o´clock

• it´s three o´clok.

• it´s half past three.

Multiple Choice

What time is it.?

• it´s four o´clock

• it´s two o´clock

• it´s half past two.

Multiple Choice

What time is it.?

• it´s one o´clock

• it´s two o´clock

• it´s half past one

Question yourself!

Am I a good planner?

Making plans

 vocabulary

Initiating Plans

• Are you interested in…?

• Would you like to…?

• Can you…?

• Are you free to…?

• Are you able to…?

• Do you want to…?

• Let’s…

Making plans

Responding to Proposed Plans

Positive responses!

• That sounds great!

• Sounds good to me.

• Yes! I’d like to go!

• I’d love to!

• Great/Perfect/Excellent! I’ll be there.

• I can definitely join. 

I’m not sure…

• Let me check my schedule and get back to you.

• I’ll let you know!

• It depends on_____. I’ll confirm as soon as I can!

• Maybe! I’ll let you know as soon as possible.

• There’s a chance I can make it. I’ll let you know.

Negative responses

• Unfortunately, I can’t make it.

• I’m busy, but let’s meet up another time!

• I’m not able to go this time. So sorry!

• That time doesn’t work for me. 

Changing the Plan

• Can we change our plan?

• Is it possible to reschedule?

• I’m really sorry for the trouble, but can we reschedule?

• Our original plan actually won’t work for me. Any chance you’re available another time?

Cancelling the Plan

• Unfortunately, I have to cancel.

• My schedule is complicated today. I have to cancel.

• It’s been a hectic day/week, and I’m not going to be able to make it today.

• So sorry for the trouble, but I need to cancel! Thanks so much for understanding.

• Something came up, and I can’t make it. 

Poll

Hi, dear students. Are you interested in having an extra meeting this weekend?

• I can definitely join.

• That sounds great!

• Let me check my schedule and get back to you, teacher.

• I’m busy, but let’s meet up another time!

Poll

Oh, I see. You're busy. What about next Saturday at 3:45 p.m.?

• Well, it depends on my next classes. I’ll confirm as soon as I can!

• There’s a chance I can make it. I’ll let you know.

• That time doesn’t work for me.

• Is it possible to reschedule?

Open Ended

Our original plan actually won’t work then. Any chance you’re available another time?

Open Ended

My schedule is complicated sometimes. What about next Thursday?

Open Ended

Sweet! I'll be waiting for our meeting!