English Unlimited HAK/HUM 2, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

103 Getting connected 08 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Listen to Mia and Jason arranging to meet in their free time. What do they arrange to do? Take notes. Listen to their next conversation. Who’s going to the performance on Saturday? Who’s going on Sunday? Listen to both conversations again. Circle the expressions that they use. VoCabULaRY 24 Arranging to meet up SPEakING 25 a WRITING 26 a Work alone. 1 Think of three things you’d like to do with good friends. 2 Write down four times when you’re free. Make arrangements with three different people. Find someone to do each thing with. Example: Hi, Paul. Are you doing anything on Monday? Would you like to … ? Work alone. You have to cancel two of your arrangements. Decide which two and why. Example: 2. Monday, 7 pm – go to the cinema with Paul cancel because: cousin’s birthday Write two short text messages to the two people you don’t have time for. Cancel and suggest a different date and time. Example: Hi, Paul. Sorry but I can’t make it on Monday. It’s my cousin’s birthday party. Can we postpone? You can use different forms to talk about future plans and arrangements. Match a–d with examples 1–4. b b LISTENING 22 TCD 2/09 23 TCD 2/10 Checking 1 Are you doing anything this week / tonight? 2 Do you fancy having lunch / going too? Arranging a date and time 3 Can you make Saturday / the 12th? 4 Can you do tomorrow/ 3.30? Cancelling and rearranging 5 I’m sorry but I can’t make it tomorrow/ on Saturday. 6 Can we postpone? / Can we do it another time? GRaMMaR 27 Future plans and arrangements Grammar reference and practice, p. 154. a present progressive for arrangements with people, organisations, etc. b be going to + infinitive for personal plans (The difference between a and b is very small. Often, you can use either.) c present simple for things with fixed times (train timetables, flight schedules, etc.) d am / is / are (with adjectives, prepositions, etc.) 1 I ’m going to go tomorrow then. 2 His train arrives at 7.15 pm. 3 Are you doing anything this week? 4 I ’m free on Saturday. We usually use time expressions with forms a–d to say when something is happening. For example, tomorrow , at 7.15 pm , on Saturday . 1. tomorrow, 12 am 2. Monday, 7 pm 3. Tuesday, 1 pm 4. Saturday evening Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv