Georgie
Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn. I’m Georgie.
Phil
And I’m Phil. Remember, you can watch a video of this podcast on our website with subtitles to help you understand it. And that’s bbclearningenglish.com.
Georgie
Hello Phil. How are you doing?
Phil
I’m good, I’m good. And I’m looking forward to the weekend.
Georgie
Me too. It’s been a busy week and actually today we’re talking about weekends. We’ll talk about what we usually do at the weekends. So, Phil, do you like weekends?
Phil
I love weekends. It’s just great. You don’t need to get up as early as you do during the week. And it’s just a bit more relaxed. That’s nice.
Georgie
I know. Who doesn’t like weekends? Everyone needs some time off and time not doing work. What do you usually do at the weekends?
Phil
Usually, as I say, I usually get up not very early, certainly not as early as during the week. My children go to play music at the weekends, so we have to make sure that they have breakfast and maybe we take them there or we pick them up, but apart from that, it’s time… it’s time when you don’t have to do something specific. So, maybe there’s things to catch up on, maybe clean the house, but it’s less pressure.
Georgie
Yeah, you can kind of choose what you feel like doing. For me, it depends whether I’ve had a busy week. If I’ve had a busy week of work, and sometimes I have social plans every evening, then at the weekends I prefer to just chill and catch up on my home things, like cleaning. But if I’ve had quite a quiet week, I like to be quite active. So, I like to make plans with friends, do some exercise. Yeah, so it kind of depends, but that’s why weekends are good, because you can kind of choose what you do.
Phil
Yeah. I always think it’s nice to make the most of the weekend when you can, particularly… especially, you get up on a Saturday or a Sunday and it’s really sunny and it’s nice – you kind of want to do something don’t you? Go out for a walk or visit somewhere new.
Georgie
Yeah, that’s true. But if it’s raining, my favourite thing at the weekend is to, yeah, not set my alarm, wake up still kind of early, go down, make a coffee, bring it to bed, have a coffee in bed, and either read or watch an episode of something, a YouTube video. That’s my favourite thing, because you don’t have to suddenly get up and go.
Phil
OK. So, we’re talking about weekends, Georgie. Do you have any plans for this weekend?
Georgie
Yes, I do. So, a lot of my friends are turning 30 years old this year, and on Saturday I have a 30th birthday party, so that’s in the evening. I think it will probably be a late night, so on Sunday I think I’m going to take it easy. So, just relax, not make any plans and just see… see where the wind blows me!
Phil
That’s nice.
Georgie
What about you, Phil?
Phil
Well, we had quite a busy weekend last weekend, so this weekend, there’s a lot of things that we need to get done. We can’t just take it easy.
Georgie
Urgh.
Phil
We need to clean the house and just organise some of those… those life admin things – those little tasks that we haven’t done. We need to get them done…
Georgie
Yeah.
Phil
…this weekend.
Georgie
Will you do anything fun?
Phil
We’ll see. If we get time, yeah.
Georgie
If you get the… if you get the things done.
Phil
Yes. If we get everything done, we can… Well, we can chill or we can do something nice.
Georgie
Ah nice. OK. Let’s recap the language we heard during the conversation. We heard make the most of something. If you make the most of your weekend, you use the time well – you don’t waste it.
Phil
We also heard get something done, which means to complete a task. It might be something like cleaning your house. If you do that, you got something done over the weekend.
Georgie
We also heard take it easy or chill, which means you relax and don’t do much.
Phil
We talked about this weekend and when we say this weekend, we mean the one that’s coming – the one that’s at the end of this week.
Georgie
And that’s it for this episode of Real Easy English, but we’ll be back next week with another conversation in easy English.
Phil
Try the worksheet on our website to practise what you’ve learnt. And that’s at bbclearningenglish.com.
Georgie
Goodbye for now!
Phil
Bye!