In the café, Cheryl and Bob discuss their plans for Saturday night to celebrate Bob's birthday. In this simple conversation you can see these things:

SOCIAL LANGUAGE

Talk about time
Invite someone to an event

GRAMMAR

Prepositions of time and place
There is

- You’re late.
- What time is it?
- Two minutes after six.
- I am not late. Two minutes is not late.
- Yes, it is. It’s two minutes late.
- Oh, look! It’s five to six. I’m early.
- So for your birthday on Saturday, there’s a great French movie at the Avalon.
- There’s a baseball game on Saturday night.
- Or there’s a play at the Arts Center at 8:00 p.m. Life Is a Dream.
- The Tigers are playing the Giants. You know, baseball?
- Oh, look! There’s a Mozart concert on Saturday. Would you like to go?
- What time?
- Half past seven.
- The ball game’s at 7:00.
- Oh, wow! There’s a talk by the writer Ellen Lee at the University on . . .
- On Saturday night. Is your birthday on Saturday?
- No. It’s your birthday. Would you like to go to a baseball game for your birthday?
- A baseball game! That sounds great!