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Interview: What are you doing this evening? (Top Notch Fundamentals Unit 9-2)
source: Mohammed Abuarisha / Pearson Education, INC 2010-10-28
* social language: Make plans to get together
* grammar: The present continuous for future plans
# video script:
Interviewer: What are you planning to do this evening?
Joe: This evening I'm planning to go to, um, dinner with friends and maybe some drinks.
Martin: I think I'll say home and have my dinner.
Interviewer: So what are you going to do this weekend?
San: I am going to go to, um, the park and maybe see a movie and hang out with my friends.
Martin: Um, I'm going to an opera.
Interviewer: That's interesting. And, uh, will you be going with anyone?
Martin: Uh, with a colleague in* the office and her husband.
Interviewer: Next month. Do you have any big plans coming up?
Stephan: Um, I don't have major plans coming up next month. I usually go week by week.
San: Next Monday I will, um, probably be in the office working. Um, after work I'll probably go out and have something to eat and go to dinner and, um, come home and watch TV.
* should be "from"