Lower Intermediate S1 #6 - Postponing an Appointment PDF

LESSON NOTES Lower Intermediate S1 #6 Postponing an appointment CONTENTS Dialogue - English Main Vocabulary Sample sentences Vocabulary phrase usage Grammar Cultural insight # 6 ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INT...

LESSON NOTES Lower Intermediate S1 #6 Postponing an appointment CONTENTS Dialogue - English Main Vocabulary Sample sentences Vocabulary phrase usage Grammar Cultural insight # 6 ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INTERMEDIATE S1 #6 1 DIALOGUE - ENGLISH MAIN 1. Joey : Hello? 2. Mike : Hey, Joey. It's me, Mike. 3. Joey : Hey, man. What's up? Are we still on for tomorrow? 4. Mike : Well, that's what I'm calling about. I can't make it to lunch tomorrow. Something came up. 5. Joey : What do you mean something came up? I was your best buddy in third grade! What's so important that you can't tell me? Man... 6. Mike : Well, Susan wants me to have lunch with her parents. They're in town this week. 7. Joey : Oh, man! The wife is already tearing us apart. Man... I hate married guys. 8. Mike : I'm really sorry, Joey. Just this once. It's really important to Susan. Can we push back our lunch to next week? 9. Joey : Do I have a choice? 10. Mike : Not really. 11. Joey : Man… 12. Mike : Same time, same place? 13. Joey : All right. But you'd better not be late, man, or I'll make you pay, literally! 14. Mike : I'll be there! I'll be there! See you! VOCABULARY Vocabulary English Class tomorrow the day after today noun buddy close friend noun wife the female partner of a married couple noun literally in an accurate (literal) sense or approach adverb parent person who brings up and cares for a child noun important (American) of great significance adjective grade level of study lasting for one year noun to tear to rip, to separate into parts verb choice act of deciding between two or more options noun ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INTERMEDIATE S1 #6 2 SAMPLE SENTENCES Good luck on your test tomorrow! We hope to see you tomorrow. He's a buddy of mine since high school. He's been my buddy for as long as I can remember. His wife left him for a younger man. He should bring his wife to the company party. There were literally hundreds of people at the She took my comments literally, which was the stadium. start of our argument. She is like a parent to me. My parents are home. They are my parents. He is my parent. She is my parent. His parents are very strict with his curfew. The parents were away for the weekend. Graduation was an important day for her. I'm aware how important the contract is. He read many books in ninth grade. She was the biggest troublemaker in second He tore the letter into little pieces before grade. throwing it away in the garbage. She tore her skirt when she jumped over the It was her choice in the end. fence. They had a choice between the fish and the chicken. VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE The first phrase we'll look at is "are we still on for tomorrow?" We use this phrase to double-check appointments or things that we have scheduled. In other words, Joey is asking whether they are still meeting tomorrow as planned. Here's another example: "Is the party still on for tomorrow?" The person is asking whether the party is going to be held as planned. The second phrase we'll look at is "Can we push back our lunch to next week?" "Push back" means to delay something scheduled to a later date. Mike is asking Joey here whether they can postpone their lunch for another week. Another example is "they pushed back the deadline until next month." This means they rescheduled the deadline to a later month. ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INTERMEDIATE S1 #6 3 GRAMMAR The Focus of This Lesson Is Using the Future Tense to Make a Prediction or a Promise. "But you'd better not be late, man, or I'll make you pay, literally!" In the third lesson of this Lower Intermediate series, we talked about the future tense. Let's review this tense by looking at some examples from the dialogue and some general examples. First, let's take a look at these sentences: 1. "I'll make you pay." 2. "I'll be there." In the first sentence, Joey says "I'll make you pay" to Mike in the future tense. This is because he's talking about what Mike would have to do in the future if he reschedules their lunch. Likewise, Mike says "I'll be there" in the future because Mike is telling Joey that he will be at their agreed place in the future. Note that both of these sentences contain the contracted form of "I will," which is "I'll." Here are some other examples. For Example: 1. "I think she'll be here soon." 2. "He won't help me." 3. "Celena will finish cleaning." In the first sentence, we use the future tense to make a prediction-the prediction that she will be arriving soon. In the second example, we use the future tense to refuse to do something-in this case, help. And in the last example, we use the future tense to state a promise-the promise that Celena is going to finish cleaning. CULTURAL INSIGHT Can We Do This Next Week? Rescheduling happens often among friends and in business situations. Although it's something that people generally avoid doing, when people need to reschedule, it is often an understood matter. In business situations, people don't always need to explain, or a short explanation for rescheduling is enough. However, like in the dialogue, friends might be a little bit pushier. ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INTERMEDIATE S1 #6 4 ENGLISHCLASS101.COM LOWER INTERMEDIATE S1 #6 5