Weekends discussion questions tense review
Talk about weekends with your partner for as long as you can, asking questions about the past, present or future to keep them talking.
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Choose topics below the fold that you haven’t talked about and use questions like those there to help extend the conversation.
Did you have a good weekend?/ How was your weekend?/ Did you do anything nice/ interesting/ exciting/ fun/ different at the weekend? (That sounds interesting. Had you ever been there/ done that before?/ Is that a typical weekend for you? / Are you going to do that again?/ Do you think you will do that again?)
Did you see/ watch/ hear about/ read/ go to… on Saturday/ Sunday (morning/ afternoon/ evening)?)
Did you find time to do your homework/ to relax/ to meet up with friends?
Did you get much work/ study/ homework done?
What do you usually do at the weekend?
How have you been spending your weekends recently?
What was the best/ worst/ most interesting/ most tiring weekend you have ever had?
What do you think the weather will be like next weekend?
What will you do if it snows next weekend?
Do you have any plans for next weekend? (What are you going to do?/ When do you think you will decide what to do?)
Are you meeting up with your friends/ your boyfriend/ your family (again) next weekend?
How will you spend your weekends after you retire, do you think?
What would you like to do on the weekend of your birthday?
What did you use to do with your weekend when you were a child/ at primary school?
When your teacher stops you, ask about any questions that you are not sure you know how to answer, working together as a class to come up with suitable answers each time.
Tense review grammar presentation
Without looking above, complete the questions with the correct tenses below
___________________________________________________ (have) a good weekend?/ (That sounds interesting. ________________________________ (ever do) that before?
What __________________________________________ (usually do) at the weekend?
How _______________________________________ (spend) your weekends recently?
What was the best weekend ______________________________________ (ever have)?
What do you think the weather __________________________ (be like) next weekend?
What _________________________________________ (do) if it snows next weekend?
Do you have any plans for next weekend? What __________________________ (do)?/ When do you think ____________________________________ (decide) what to do?
_______________________________ (meet up with) your friends again next weekend?
How _______________________ (spend) your weekends after you retire, do you think?
What __________________________ (like) to do on the weekend of your birthday?
What _________________ (do) with your weekend when you were at primary school?
Check your answers with the previous page. Other tenses not above may also be possible, so please check if you wrote something different.
Change groups. Take turns asking different present, then past, then future questions about weekends, if possible without looking above.
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