Point 5 ”Do you have any weekend plans?”　初級ビジネス英会話

初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第5弾は、”Do you have any weekend plans?” です。

金曜日に、気軽なノリで週末の予定を聞く際に使えます。

例えば、同僚に対して「週末は何するの？」と聞きたい場合、あなたならどう言いますか？

よく日本人は、

“What will you do this weekend?”
という言い方で週末の予定をたずねてきます。

でもこの言い方では相手がネイティブだと、
「週末の予定を聞いてくるなんて、何か仕事を振ってくるつもりなのかな？」
とやや身構えてしまいそうな印象を与えてしまっているのです。

こんなときには、より親しみのある、

“Do you have any weekend plans?”
を使うようにしましょう。

早速今日からつかってみてください！

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates for beginners
video series for Japanese businesspeople.

And today's question is do you have any weekend plans?

Ah, great question. OK, let's learn this today.
But first, we will do our test.

OK, so I will ask you.

Are you ready to start our meeting?

You bet I am. That's right. Did you get that?
OK, with excitement right? OK.

So now let's do our question.
Do you have any weekend plans? OK.

So imagine that Taro is my colleague OK.
We work for the same company.

And today is Friday. It's Friday OK.
And Taro asks me,

Yeah Hika, what will you do this weekend?

And I say, why do you want to know?

Yeah, this question, what will you do this weekend?
It's it's very unnatural.

It's like, I feel like hmmm? Taro is asking me
because he would give me more work.

Like that kind of image. He will give me work
for Saturday and Sunday, I feel like that OK.

So it's kind of a strange question.
What will you do this weekend?

We don't use will in this situation so much OK.
A more natural style and a friendly style is this.

Do you have any weekend plans? And I'll say,
yeah, I was thinking of going to the park and...

something like this. OK.
Do you have any weekend plans?

Let's look at pronunciation.
So it's doya, doya havany, havany

weekend plans? Do you have any weekend plans?
You try.

Good. One more time.
Do you have any weekend plans?

OK. So now you ask me, do you have any weekend plans?
And I will say, yeah, I was thinking of going to...

OK. So let's try this. Ready? 1, 2, 3... Go.

Yeah, I was thinking of going to Disneyland.
OK. Perfect. All right.

Now for homework, next time you ask me.
Hika, do you have any weekend plans?

And I will say, yeah, I was thinking of going to...
OK?

So please practice this and
we will see you next time. Thank you.