Name: 與我交談英語口語練習 (Speak With Me: English Speaking Practice)
Uploaded: 2024-12-09T05:06:23.000Z
Duration: 19 min 9 s

Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

大家好，我是來自 SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com 的 Vanessa。

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Are you ready to practice speaking English today?

今天，您準備好練習說英語了嗎？

If I asked you, what you up to this weekend?

如果我問你，這個週末你在忙什麼？

Would you freeze and panic because you don't know how to respond to this question easily and naturally?

你會不會因為不知道如何輕鬆自然地回答這個問題而愣住、驚慌失措？

Today, I'm going to help you to naturally have a conversation about your weekend plans, which is a really common conversation topic.

今天，我將幫助你自然而然地談論週末計劃，這確實是一個很常見的談話話題。

Maybe you're leaving school or work on a Friday and someone asks you, hey, what you up to this and they ask you about your weekend plans instead of freezing and panicking.

也許你在週五離開學校或工作場所時，有人問你 "嘿，你在忙什麼呢？"他們會問你週末的計劃，而不是驚慌失措。

Today, I want to help you learn the most important conversation question that you can use in these situations.

今天，我想幫你學習在這些情況下可以使用的最重要的對話問題。

Also, some common vocabulary for talking about your weekend plans.

此外，還可以用一些常用詞彙來談論你們的週末計劃。

And then at the end of this lesson, we're going to practice a little exchange back and forth.

在這節課的最後，我們要練習一下來回交換。

I hope that you can get your pronunciation and speaking muscles ready so you can really use what you've learned during today's lesson.

我希望你能準備好你的發音和口語肌肉，這樣你才能真正運用今天的課程所學到的知識。

Are you ready to learn the most important conversation question of all time?

準備好學習最重要的對話問題了嗎？

Is that question, will you give me money?

The most important conversation question is, there's actually two parts.

最重要的對話問題其實有兩個部分。

When someone asks you about your weekend plans and you say a little reply, I'm going hiking, I'm not doing much, there might be an incredibly awful, awkward pause.

當有人問起你的週末計劃，而你只是回答了一句 "我要去爬山，沒什麼事 "時，可能會有一個令人難以置信的、尷尬的停頓。

Well, this is where the most important question comes in.

You can kind of imagine tossing a ball back and forth.

你可以想象一下來回拋球的情景。

The other person has asked you a question.

Now you reply and you say, okay, I'm going hiking or I'm not doing much.

現在你回覆說，好吧，我要去徒步旅行，或者我不做什麼。

You need to throw or toss the ball back to that person.

你需要把球扔或拋還給那個人。

It means you are asking the same question back to them.

這意味著你在反問他們同樣的問題。

So I want you to remember this wonderful question.

是以，我希望你們記住這個美妙的問題。

Either of them, actually, they have the exact same meaning.

無論是哪一種，其實都有完全相同的含義。

Remember these questions because later when we practice this at the end of this lesson, during our conversation speaking time, remember these questions and use them.

記住這些問題，因為在本課結束後的對話口語練習中，我們要記住並使用這些問題。

All right, let's go some common vocabulary that you can use to talk about weekend plans.

好了，讓我們用一些常用詞彙來談談週末計劃吧。

The word brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch.

早午餐一詞是早餐和午餐的組合。

And that's because we usually eat this on the weekends, maybe a Saturday morning or a Sunday morning between 10 AM and 2 AM.

這是因為我們通常在週末吃，可能是週六或週日上午 10 點到凌晨 2 點之間。

It's a time when you could eat either breakfast or lunch, and it's usually a long social event.

在這段時間裡，你可以吃早餐或午餐，而且通常是長時間的社交活動。

So you might go out to brunch with your friends or have your friends to your house to eat brunch.

是以，你可能會和朋友一起出去吃早午餐，或者請朋友來家裡吃早午餐。

My friends and I are meeting at our favorite brunch spot on Sunday.

週日，我和朋友們將在我們最喜歡的早午餐地點見面。

It's a restaurant where you can eat breakfast type foods, usually with some kind of alcoholic drink like a mimosa or something with fruit in it, or maybe some champagne in the morning.

這是一家提供早餐的餐廳，通常配有含酒精的飲料，如含羞草或含水果的飲料，或者早上的香檳。

And you can eat this in the company of your friends.

Another common weekend word is social butterfly.

另一個週末常用的詞是社交蝴蝶。

A social butterfly refers to someone who makes a lot of plans.

They are flying around to events, to another event, to another activity.

他們飛來飛去，參加各種活動，參加另一項活動，參加另一項活動。

They're always doing things, usually involving lots of other people.

他們總是在做事，通常會有很多其他人参與進來。

If you are a social butterfly, probably the year 2020 with lockdowns and all of these things were probably really difficult for you because you love to get together with other people and always be active.

如果你是一個喜歡社交的人，2020 年的封鎖和所有這些事情對你來說可能真的很困難，因為你喜歡和其他人聚在一起，總是很活躍。

So we can use this in a sentence like this.

是以，我們可以把它用在這樣的句子中。

She has invitations to three brunches and four afternoon teas.

她收到了三次早午餐和四次下午茶的邀請。

Someone who enjoys just doing things slowly and staying at home.

喜歡慢慢做事，喜歡待在家裡的人。

They feel most comfortable in a comfortable place at home.

他們在家裡舒適的地方感覺最舒服。

You could say, my friend is a social butterfly, but I'm more of a homebody.

你可以說，我的朋友是個交際花，但我更喜歡宅在家裡。

When I get together with friends, I would rather have dinner at my house and then play games here.

當我和朋友聚會時，我更願意在我家吃晚飯，然後在這裡玩遊戲。

I think this is kind of true for me personally, as I get a little bit older, I prefer these kind of intimate group settings.

我覺得我個人也是這樣，隨著年齡的增長，我更喜歡這種親密的集體活動。

Instead of lots of people, I prefer just a couple of friends at home, maybe having a bonfire outside, roasting some food or some marshmallows and this kind of intimate setting.

比起人山人海，我更喜歡幾個朋友在家裡，也許在外面生一堆篝火，烤一些食物或棉花糖，這種親密的氛圍。

I enjoy doing activities at home more often than when I was a little bit younger.

與年輕時相比，我更喜歡在家裡活動。

Unfortunately, that has been probably a lot of our weekend plans for the past year.

不幸的是，去年我們的很多週末計劃都是這樣。

And it means that you're just to stay at home.

It doesn't mean you're going to do nothing.

It just means you're not going to go anywhere.

You might say, it's supposed to be cold and rainy this weekend, so I'm just going to stay in and read a book, or I'm just going to stay in and do some things around the house.

你可能會說，這個週末應該又冷又多雨，所以我就待在家裡看看書，或者待在家裡做些家務活。

This means that you watch a lot of movies or TV shows, usually back to back without stopping.

這意味著您會觀看大量電影或電視節目，通常是不間斷地背靠背觀看。

So several hours, maybe you watch four seasons of a TV show in one day.

那麼幾個小時，也許你一天就能看完四季電視劇。

This expression comes from a term we usually use with alcohol, to binge drink.

這種說法來源於我們通常用在酒精上的一個詞，即狂飲。

This means that you drink a lot of alcohol at one time.

But when we say to binge drink, that has that same idea as you're doing a lot back to back.

但是，當我們說要狂飲時，這和你連續喝很多酒的意思是一樣的。

So you might say, last weekend, my husband and I binge watched all of the Star Wars movies.

所以你可能會說，上週末，我和丈夫狂看了所有的《星球大戰》電影。