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Ask Americans About Weekend Plans

Posted On: October 4, 2015

In the video below, Lindsay shares three questions you can use with your American colleagues to ask them about their weekend. Below the video see a list of the three questions with additional ideas for your conversational diversity.  

 

13 Ways to Ask Americans About Weekend Plans

 

Lindsay’s ideas for asking about someone’s weekend:

    1. What are you up to this weekend?
    2. Any plans for the weekend?/Do you have any plans for the weekend?
    3. Are you ready for the weekend?

More ideas:

    1. Doing anything fun this weekend?
    2. What will you be doing this weekend?
    3. Different ways to ask someone about their weekendHow’s your weekend shaping up? (idiomatic)
    4. Have a good weekend.
    5. Have fun this weekend!

If you know your colleague’s hobbies you can ask about that:

    1. Would you be going skiing this weekend?
    2. Hope you get a chance to go biking this weekend.
    3. Going to the lake this weekend?

If you’re team has been working overtime on the project, some other phrases are:

    1. I hope you’re not working this weekend!
    2. You deserve a break… don’t open your computer this weekend! Have fun!



Lindsay McMahon is Founder and CEO of All Ears English. All Ears English is an education technology company, focusing on helping international professionals improve their English for business, test preparation, and general fluency. We provide podcasts, online courses, live events, and more.  

If you are specifically looking for US culture training programs for your teams in India, see our small talk program – Building Trust and Good Relationships with US Americans.


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