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Watch this fun video, where I'll teach you how to talk about going out with friends. I'll give you a lot of useful expressions, vocabulary, and slang you can use to talk about social situations. Do you use Facebook? I'm going to teach you how native speakers write Facebook statuses, comments, and captions. When we write on Facebook, we generally use informal English and slang. I'll share some cool expressions you can start using right away. I'll also teach you how to ask someone out on a date and how to respond if someone asks you out. This lesson is all about improving your English for your modern social life. So what are you waiting for? Watch this lesson, take the quiz at and follow engVid on Facebook at TRANSCRIPT Hello. My name's Benjamin, and I want to help you to have a really fun time when you come into an English-speaking country, like England, or America, or Scotland, or Wales, or Ireland. Okay? So we're going to concentrate on words that help you in social situations. Okay? Whether that's Facebook, asking someone out on a date, or how to answer when someone asks you to join them. Okay? Good. So, Facebook. Love it or hate it, it's a bit like Marmite, huh? Now, you know when it comes to that page and it asks you what you're thinking? Well, one thing you could say, a phrase that might be useful: “To catch up with...“ So you could say: “I've been catching up with...“ Okay? Past perfect tense. “To catch a film“, okay? So, I caught a film. I caught a film with Heath Ledger in it. It was really good. Okay? So we got two uses, here, of “catch“. One, it refers to seeing a friend, talking, talking, talking, hearing what they are doing; and another use of “catch“ when we are catching a film, catching a play. It means “going to“. Okay? So: “catch up“, talk or go to, that's the meaning. Now, this is an interesting point, because when you are saying something, when you are talking normally, you talk about the past tense: “I saw a film. I caught a film. I did this. I did that.“ But when you're on Facebook, you'll probably use the present if you are using a picture. Okay? So, I... “Catching a film with my friend“, and I give them a picture of us at the cinema, outside the movie theatre. Okay? So that's just a little thought. When you're using Facebook and you've got a picture, you might want to use the present tense. Now, another little phrase you might put on your Facebook posts: “A night out with Dominic, Jane, Charlotte“, and you got a picture of them all having a great time. So: “A night out with...“ Or, you could have a fun day. Okay? So a night or a day. Good. Now, we've got “chilling“ or “relaxing with“. “Chilling“, taking it easy. Having a nice time. Okay? Relaxing. “Chilling/relaxing with...“ and then again, you have the person's name here, if you want to, if you're that well inclined. Or you could have: “Grabbing a beer with“, grab. You could say: “I'm grabbing a beer with“, or “Grabbing a quick meal with my mom.“ Don't do that, by the way. “Burning up the dancefloor!“ That's when you're really dancing around, got a little picture of that. “Burning“, fire. You're fire on the dancefloor, I know. Now, someone's really been enjoying these Facebook posts, they've been messaging you, so you pick up the phone and you're asking them out on a date. “Come along! We're going to the disco tonight.“ Okay? A lot of these request/invitations, they use “come“, okay? “Come along!“ “Come out, it will be such good fun. We're going to have a really great time.“, “Come out“, “Come along!“ Okay? They're encouraging ways of saying. Okay? “We're eating at Domino's in-house pizza place. Come join us.“ Or: “We're eating at the Chicago Rib Shack. Come.“ Okay? Again: “Join us.“ “Do you want to come?“ if you're going to ask a question. So these are sort of demands: “Do this, do that.“ If you want to use a question: “Do you want to come?“ Okay? Nice and natural. A nice, natural question. Now, imagine someone is asking you, if you don't like that person, you could say: “No. I'd like to stay in, actually. I think I'll just watch the telly, and have a meal. Thanks. See ya.“ Okay? You don't like them. If you like them, you could say: “Yeah, okay. You can call in at mine... At my house at 8 o'clock.“ Okay? “Call in“, you come to me. You call in. Or, more casual, informal way of saying that, I would say: “Yeah, okay, swing by at mine in half an hour/in 30 minutes.“ Swing by, come to my house first. I don't want to walk. You come to me. Okay? Or you could say: “Sure. Meet me in the town square at 9 o'clock.“ So you tell them where you're going to meet them.
