TEACHER'S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOUR CES The Long Weekend

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, writing, In this “going to” activity, students make arrangements and talk
listening and speaking about them. In the activity, students also practice inviting,
activity accepting and declining.

Procedure
Language Focus
Going to for future In this pandemic time, governments have decreed curfew, so
arrangements there is a long weekend coming up. Choose seven activities from
the worksheet that you would like to do over the long weekend.
Making arrangements
Students write the activities anywhere they like in the calendar
Inviting on their worksheet.
Accepting and declining
When you have finished, you are going to try to find a partner
invitations
for each activity.

Aim
To make arrangements
and talk about future
arrangements using the
going to.
You must also get involved in other activities and try to fill up their
calendar.
Students must find a different partner for each activity. This is to
encourage them to speak to as many different partners as
possible.

Level
Pre-intermediate (A2)

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 FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS

ESL / EFL RESOUR CES The Long Weekend

Saturday Sunday Monday

Morning

Lunch

Afternoon

Dinner

Evening

A. It's a long weekend! Choose seven activities and write them into your calendar.

play a game of... work out at the gym

go to the pub go bowling
play computer games meet friends/family members
relax at home go clubbing
go shopping at... study...
go to a concert to see... play (a sport)...
go to the park watch TV/a film at home
go to (a place)... visit...
go to the cinema to watch... have breakfast/lunch/dinner at...
do the gardening go cycling

B. Now, ask a different classmate to join you in each activity.

If they agree, write their name in your calendar next to the activity. If someone asks you to do
something and you are free, write their name and the activity into your calendar.

Useful language: I'm

Would
visiting a temple.
you like to play tennis with
Would you like to come?
me on Monday afternoon?

What are you

doing on Saturday
afternoon? Sorry,
I'm busy then. I'm going
bowling with John.
What are you
doing for lunch on Nothing, I'm
Sunday? free.

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