2.1. Practice: Friday night. What are my options?

Let's imagine this situation. Friday night. You won 300€ in the lotto. You don't have to wake up early on Saturday morning. What are your options?

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There are plenty of activities you can do on a Friday night. You studied some of them in previous lessons but now we will remember them and add new ones in this section.

Working with words

Look at the images (A to H) below and match them to the expressions 1 to 8.

A

Concert

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B

Cinema

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C

Party at home

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D 

Stay at home

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 E

Going for a drink

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F

Hanging out with a friend

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 G

Restaurant

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H

Going clubbing

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  1. To go clubbing: when you go to different pubs and discos on the same night.
  2. To go to a (fine/elegant/expensive/Japanese/Mexican...) restaurant.
  3. To go to the cinema to see a film.
  4. To party at home/ To throw a party at your place.
  5. To go for a drink/ To have a drink.
  6. To hang out with friends.
  7. To stay in.
  8. To go to a concert.

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Now, each of these options will lead you to different actions. For example, if we take the option of going to a fine restaurant, we will need some expressions for that situation such as 'to order a meal', 'to eat the set menu', 'to taste a French wine'... If we choose going clubbing, we will need 'to drink a cocktail', 'to dance', 'to sing'...

When we have this, it is a good idea to create mind maps, like the following one:

Mind map with vocabulary

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This helps you to remember useful vocabulary when creating a text either written or orally. As you can see in the image above, there is always a word between parenthesis in each expression. That is the Past Simple form of the verbs in the expression (you studied this grammar point here).

Do the same with the rest of expressions from the previous exercise. When you finish, click on the button below and you will see some possibilities.