🇬🇧 🥳 Social · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)

📅 Making plans with friends

🎯 Invite, suggest, accept and decline plans

Use the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.

💬 Warm-up questions

What are your plans this weekend?
Who do you hang out with most?

🔑 Key phrases

Are you free this weekend?今週末ひま？
Do you want to go see a movie?映画見に行かない？
How about Saturday?土曜日はどう？
Sounds good!いいね！
Sorry, I can't make it.ごめん、行けないや。
Let's meet at the station at six.6時に駅で会おう。

📚 Useful words

free — ひま
busy — 忙しい
hang out — 遊ぶ
plans — 予定
maybe another time — また今度
running late — 遅れている

⚡ Speaking challenges

Invite me to 3 different things.
Decline politely and suggest another time.
Text a friend that you're running late.
Plan a surprise party in 30 seconds.

🎭 Role-play

Texting/talking with a friend on Thursday.

🧑‍🎓 Student's card

Invite your friend to do something this weekend. Agree on a day, time and place.

🧑‍🏫 Your card (tutor)

Be the friend. Say you're busy on the first suggested day; suggest an alternative.

🌀 Twist (halfway through): It starts raining. Change the plan to something indoors.

🗣️ Discussion questions

What's your perfect weekend?
Do you plan ahead or decide at the last minute?
How do you say no to plans politely in Japanese?

📌 Homework

Write a message inviting a friend to an event (with day, time, place)友だちをイベントに誘うメッセージを書く