Three Step English - Learn #1 - Talking About Plans in English - Learn
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Do you know how to talk about your plans in English? You'll learn how in just a moment. Hi, my name is Alicia. And in this 3.1 level lesson, you'll learn how to discuss where you're meeting through a quick conversation. Let's look at the dialogue. Hi, Emily. Some of us are thinking of meeting up this weekend. Do you want to come? Absolutely. I'm in. All right. Right now, we're thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Sorry, I can't make it by 8. Is it okay if I join a little later? Sure, that's no problem. I'll send you a message with the directions and other details. Here's my number. You'll text me, right? I just want to make sure I can reach you, just in case. Definitely. Here's my number, just in case you need to reach me. Call or text me anytime. Let's go over the dialogue again, more slowly this time.

Hi, Emily. Some of us are thinking of meeting up this weekend. Do you want to come? Absolutely. I'm in. All right. Right now, we're thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8 p.m. Sorry, I can't make it by 8. Is it okay if I join a little later? Sure. That's no problem. I'll send you a message with the directions and other details.

Here's my number. You'll text me, right? I just want to make sure I can reach you, just in case. Definitely. Here's my number, just in case you need to reach me. Call or text me anytime. Let's focus on the key part of the conversation. This character is asking this character if she'd like to join him and a group of friends for dinner.

When she says she's interested, he says, "All right. Right now, we're thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8:00 p.m." First, he introduces the basic idea of the plan by saying, "We're thinking of meeting up." And then, he gives explicit details about the invitation at Main Street Pizza on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. In this lesson, you'll learn how to make these kinds of invitations.

Let's look at the sentence pattern. This pattern is the structure that our examples will follow. We're thinking of meeting up at place. Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern. We're thinking of meeting up at Main Street Pizza. This pattern is often used when casually making plans with friends. Now, let's look at some speaking examples.

Susan and I were thinking of meeting up at Union Cinema on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Can you see how the pattern applies here? Now, imagine people are talking about where to eat. Some of us were thinking of having lunch at Green Burger on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. Let's try one more. Some of us were thinking of meeting up at City Library on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Another one.

We were thinking of going bowling at 10,000 lanes on Sunday at 4 p.m. One last example. Some of us were thinking of meeting up at Flask Coffee on Monday at 7 a.m. Let's review. Do you remember how to order these words to make the sentence pattern we learned? We're. We're thinking. We're thinking of.

We're thinking of meeting up. We're thinking of meeting up at... We're thinking of meeting up at the park. We're thinking of meeting up at the park. Great! Let's do one more sentence. We're. We're thinking. We're thinking of. We're thinking of meeting up.

We're thinking of meeting up at the diner. In this lesson, you learned how to discuss where you're meeting in English. Thanks for watching and see you in the next lesson.