How to Talk Naturally about your Schedule in English
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about your schedule this will be a great
lesson for beginners i think i’m going
to talk about how to use simple present
tense how to use have to and don’t have
to and how to use going to
uh and
the progressive forms of verbs to talk
about your upcoming plans so let’s
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going to talk about
expressing your schedule naturally yeah
so
today’s lesson boards look like this
these are our topics so we’re going to
talk about simple present tense have to
and don’t have to for your
responsibilities and going to or the
progressive tense okay
so
let’s
begin
all right our first topic is simple
present tense simple present tense so
what do we use simple present tense for
this is a very basic grammar point but a
very important grammar point
we use simple present tense
to express facts so true information
true information something that is
always true
is a fact like i speak english or she
speaks spanish
or i teach a live stream every week
something like that these are basic
facts right we use simple present tense
to express these facts it’s true
information okay
so that means we also use simple present
tense to express timetables and
schedules so for example what time does
the bus leave or what time does the
flight leave these kinds of questions
these timetable and schedule related
questions we use simple present tense to
express that
so you can also use simple present tense
to talk about your schedule naturally
okay
so let’s refresh ourselves let’s refresh
our mind how do we make
simple present tense statements we’re
going to use we’re going to focus on
making positive statements this week
we’re going to talk about expressing
your schedule what you do
every week or every day so
this part here is your subject your
subject you begin your statement with i
you we they okay one of these subjects
one of these words
and then we use the infinitive form of
the verb what is the infinitive form of
the verb this is the basic form yeah the
fi the
the form you find in the dictionary the
dictionary form yeah so i go you stay
we listen they talk you know so the
infinitive form of the verb is the base
form
and then
in
today’s examples we have other
information here this is according to
the verb
if your subject is he she or it we use
the infinitive verb again plus s
s so he talks
she listens
it rains
so
we use the infinitive verb plus s when
our subject is he she or it and keep in
mind it can also be a noun yeah
so it broadly
okay so we refreshed our minds about
grammar now let’s use it in some example
sentences you can send some example
sentences about your schedule in the
comments section yeah i’ll try to check
if you send it live okay ooh some are
coming in uh andrea says i usually read
at seven am a morning person very good
i’m not a morning person
okay good
all right you can send your questions
and comments too
let’s look at some examples how do we
apply how do we use simple present tense
so first
i eat breakfast
at 9 00 a.m i eat breakfast at 9 a.m so
here’s my subject i
and my infinitive verb i eat
i eat
okay
so i eat breakfast at 9am
second so we have a he sentence we
follow this pattern he she itch
infinitive verb
so
he
arrives
at the office at 10 a.m he arrives at
the office at 10 a.m
so he and my infinitive verb is arrive i
add s because my subject is he he
arrives at the office at 10 am not he
arrive don’t forget that s
okay
all right wow lots of people get up
really early i get up at six o’clock
every day i wake up at 4 00 am woof you
guys
are good good job
i’m very bad at waking up early
all right excellent uh
other ones she sleeps at 2 a.m every day
that sounds that sounds yeah i’m much
more of a night person that’s my example
sentence okay good everybody’s talking
about when they wake up nice good job
everybody
okay let’s look at another one
we take
our lunch break
at 1pm
we take our lunch break at 1pm so here
my subject is we
so we follow this pattern we plus the
base verb infinitive verb
we take
our lunch break okay
good
all right next one
she is my subject she
has a meeting
every week
on friday afternoon
she has so my subject is she
my infinitive my infinitive verb is have
but we use this s at the end so with
have
this changes to has
has
so not halves but has
she has a meeting every week on friday
afternoon
okay
cool
some examples yay oh i can’t read your
name on facebook sorry but your sentence
is great i study english at 6 00 pm
every saturday and sunday so for days of
the week use on yeah not at i study
english at 6 00 p.m on
saturday and sunday or maybe just
no preposition there yeah okay uh
other ones
he has to take the train earlier on
sundays says jorge nice good okay good
good good
sanjarbeck says i watch your podcast
every single day
very cool thanks for watching and
listening
all right let’s move on to our last
example i leave school at about 3 p.m
i leave school so again my subject is i
so infinitive verb no change
i leave school
at about 3 p.m
all right so again we use simple present
tense to express facts yeah so for
today’s lesson i’m focusing on this
point
this point here using simple present
tense for timetables and schedules yeah
but we also use it to express facts so
keep this in mind too
okay cool nice job with that one
everybody does a very good job of
expressing what time they wake up
so
to practice this a little bit more if
you want some homework for this week try
to think about expressing all the
activities in a day or in a week you can
practice writing your schedule for the
week with simple present tense yeah it’s
maybe a good way to use some different
verbs okay cool all right we’ll take a
super short break and then we’ll go to
have to and don’t have to yeah
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have to and don’t have to i want to talk
about this one
uh because i like to review this grammar
point every once in a while it’s
important to do
so
have to and don’t have to when do we use
this okay we use have to
to talk about the things you have a
responsibility to do
so
that means if you do not do this thing
something bad will happen or there will
be some negative effect so it’s
important you do this thing you have a
responsibility yeah you have to do this
thing
oh of course you can use need to also if
you have that question i’m not going to
talk about need to today but you can use
need to as well
all right
so this is uh the first point here the
second point is about this negative form
don’t have to or doesn’t have to as well
we use the negative form for things you
might reasonably expect to do so
sometimes when learners
they first learn this grammar point
they use the negative form for some like
kind of crazy idea yeah like a good
example is someone said in my lesson
once like i don’t have to drink alcohol
at work it’s like
most people that’s not a that’s not a
rule at work right uh so it sounds kind
of strange to use like a crazy statement
with this grammar point so use this
grammar point the negative form with
something you can reasonably expect to
do okay
okay so how do we make a sentence how do
we make a statement
with have to again we need to think
about our subject the subject of our
sentence so i you we or they subjects
follow this pattern i have to
verb so again our base verb form here i
have to verb you have to verb we or they
have to go for example
okay
if the subject is he
she or it we use has to he has to or she
has to or it has to plus our verb so we
do not need to change this verb here
sometimes i see learners do that don’t
need to do that we change this verb to
be verb plus s right with simple present
but we do not do this uh with have to
and has to grammar patterns
okay so let’s look at some examples okay
oh let’s look at some examples
first one i have to go to the bank today
i have to go to the bank today
so
i is my subject i use have to here i
have to and then my verb is go
yeah infinitive verb i have to go
my destination to the bank i have to go
to the bank and when
today i have to go to the bank today
okay i have some responsibility to go to
the bank today if i do not go
something bad
okay let’s go to the next one he has to
come to the meeting he has to come to
the meeting he is responsible
he has to come to the meeting so
subject is he
i use has to
because i follow this rule here he has
to and infinitive verb come
he has to come
to the meeting
all right some examples are coming in
from all of you thalia olivier i hope i
said your name right it says i have to
water my plants at least two times a
week yes take care of your plants i need
to water my plant for the second time
this week too
okay
nice one oh there’s so many oh my gosh i
have to get a new phone says nohora good
uh oh my gosh i have to do my homework
hey that’s an example sentence later
very nice ones everybody oh my gosh chat
is exploding on facebook and youtube
well done everybody i have to go
to study english right now okay good
shang okay i have to take a shower
because it’s late okay enjoy your shower
good all right everybody has nice
sentences uh karina says she doesn’t
have to work next saturday good and
negative yeah let’s get to our negative
practice so
how do we make this grammar point
negative okay so i didn’t put it here
because i talked about it here so
to make your have to and has two
sentences negative we use
don’t
for this sentence pattern
and we use doesn’t
for this sentence pattern so we put
doesn’t or don’t before i have to and
key point please pay attention to this
point because many people make a mistake
when you use this pattern the he
she it pattern and you make it negative
we do not change have to has yeah
she doesn’t have sometimes i see
learners right she doesn’t has to
no i understand i i completely
understand why
because this pattern uses has to but
when you make the negative form do not
change this verb she doesn’t have to
okay
so let’s practice some negative examples
okay
i don’t have to work this weekend
i don’t have to work this weekend so i
have no responsibility to work this
weekend maybe i usually do or i
sometimes do i don’t have to work this
weekend
she
doesn’t have to cook dinner tonight
she doesn’t have to cook dinner tonight
so maybe sometimes she does
maybe she shares the responsibility with
someone else but tonight she doesn’t
have to
okay
uh
how do you know you’re pointing at the
right place without looking at the board
i’m looking at it here in the camera and
you have to finish your homework
you have to finish your homework so
here’s one with a you
subject you have to finish your home
okay
all right
so many example sentences are coming in
uh yogesh says i don’t have to wash
clothes good
other ones uh raj zee nat says i do not
have to go there good yeah so the
unreduced the non-reduced form there
okay oscar says i have to watch the
class yeah nice oscar
okay
uh rakan says i wanna i want to wake up
early so now i wanna to wanna is want in
together yeah i wanted to wake up early
but my sleep schedule
is a mess yeah i understand that
uh
hiyarul says i don’t have to go to bali
okay so that as i mentioned before
grammatically the grammar is correct but
it’s a reasonable expectation is it
regular for you to go to bali like every
week or every month for work or
something
if it’s regular for you then okay but
for most people like going to bali
i don’t know i don’t know maybe you live
near there so it could be but make sure
that you use the negative form for
things you can reasonably expect to do
yeah okay cool everybody
very nice job with have to and don’t
have to okay time’s running out so let’s
stop there on that grammar point and
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going to so let’s talk about going to
and the progressive tense using the ing
form progressive tense or continuous we
use these to express an upcoming action
future action used to talk about a
planned future action so you are 100
sure about it something you know
is going to happen so we can use both of
these grammar points to express the same
idea
okay
all right
so how do we do this we use our subject
i you
he she whatever
we use our subject plus the be verb like
i am or you are or he is here so
depending on your subject
and then we use going to
and to the infinitive verb
okay
so let’s look at an example of this one
first okay
i am going to
an english lesson
on saturday i am going to an english
lesson
on saturday so subject i
be verb am i am
going to
here
oh sorry
we can put going to and sometimes
without the infinitive verb i’m going to
go to an english lesson see i did it too
i put this uh not even thinking about it
i i used this pattern actually i am
going to an english lesson on saturday
so you can use i’ve used this pattern
here instead that’s how that’s how
typical this is
i’m going to go to an english lesson
it’s also correct that’s what i was
planning to explain here i’m going to go
to an english lesson on saturday or this
one that i’ve used here i’m going to
an english lesson on saturday so we use
both of them as i just did
okay
let’s look at another one this one uses
the same
progressive form pattern so we use
subject plus
b
plus the progressive form of a verb okay
so he’s
here i’ve contracted this he is yeah so
he
is is reduced to he’s here yeah
he’s taking is my progressive verb
taking the day off tomorrow he’s taking
the day
off tomorrow okay
you could also say he’s going to take
the day off tomorrow both are fine you
can do both of those
so he’s taking the day off tomorrow or
he’s going to take the day off
cool okay
so let’s look at a going to another
going to one so
we’re going to go hiking in the
mountains this weekend we’re going to go
hiking in the mountains this weekend
okay
so let’s break this one down as well
we’re so here’s my subject we are
right here subject in b
we are going to right here going to
go in this case i used going to go
hiking you could say we’re going to hike
as well so there are many well i guess i
could say three
three patterns you can use
to express this you could say we’re
going to go hiking in the mountains as
the sentence we’re going to hike in the
mountains or we’re hiking in the
mountains this weekend it’s up to you
you can choose which you prefer i think
me personally i tend to use the going to
pattern more we’re going to i would
probably say i’m going to go hiking this
weekend
so it’s up to you to find your personal
preference there’s not a difference
in meaning between them
okay
what’s infinitive verb the infinitive
verb is the base form of the verb the
the form of the verb you find in the
dictionary
okay
can i say i am playing soccer tomorrow
says miguel yes yes yes yes absolutely
i’m playing soccer tomorrow okay
all right good let’s continue uh to the
last one oh my gosh oh my gosh time went
so fast this is the last one
she’s going to create a plan for our
next project
she’s going to create a plan for our
next project so again she is my subject
with b so she is
she is going to create so create is my
infinitive verb
she’s going to create a plan for our
next project so you can use this grammar
point to talk about your upcoming so
your future schedule items like your
weekend plans for example
some of your examples are coming in now
too okay juan carlos says i’m going to
watch a movie after alicia’s lesson
enjoy your movie okay
uh
jermaine says i’m going to the football
game this sunday morning have fun that
sounds like fun uh karina says he’s
hosting the meeting tomorrow very nice
juan correa says i’m going to travel on
saturday good madan says i am going to
take a lesson with you really okay nice
sentence
prakash please explain going to when we
can use that was this section if you
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kim says i’m going to work at thailand
i’m going to work in thailand in
thailand yeah
um
okay
sorry i hope i said your name right said
the teacher is going to teach you a new
lesson
maybe tomorrow instead of the next day
so maybe use tomorrow instead of the
next day okay hari she is going back to
canada so we use two to mark the
destination of our movement yeah
uh other ones diana says i’m going to
have dinner after class enjoy your
dinner diana okay i think that’s enough
good job everybody nice nice so i think
you can all express your schedule pretty
well so you can put these things
together too our grammar points for
today i’m late so
let’s quickly review uh today’s lessons
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all right today we talked about simple
present tense uh using this to express
facts and your timetable we talked about
have to and don’t have to for your
responsibilities and we talked about
going to and progressive tents to talk
about your planned future
activities hooray
everybody did a great job in the chat
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