AT or ON the weekend?

在周末是用“at”还是“on”呢？

The weekend is Saturday and Sunday

星期六 星期日=周末

Weekend is written as ONE word.

Weekend在书写时写作一个单词。

You do NOT write it as two words (week end – incorrect)

不要写成分开的两个单词

or with a dash/hyphen (week-end – incorrect)

也不要加连字符

Complete this sentence….

补全下面的句子

I play football ___ the weekend.

Do we say AT the weekend or ON the weekend?

我们是用“at”还是“on”周末呢？

What is the difference?

他们之间有什么区别？

AT the weekend is used in British English

AT常用在英式英语中

ON the weekend is used in American English

ON常用在美式英语中

Both prepositions can be used in this sentence. It depends on where you are speaking or using English.

这两个介词都可以使用。取决于你说英语时在哪。

I play football AT the weekend. – British English

I play football ON the weekend. – American English

Note: We do NOT say in the weekend.

我们不说in the weekend

More example sentences: (Think about when the sentence would be used… in British or American English)

更多例句：（一边听录音一边想这是英式用法还是美式）

I think I’ll visit my parents at the weekend.

我想我周末会去看望我的父母

What do you usually do on the weekend?

你通常在周末做什么？

I read an entire book on the weekend.

我在周末读了一整本书。

I’m going to set aside an hour at the weekend to clean the bathroom.

我会在周末腾出一个小时来打扫浴室。

Every weekend

We do not use prepositions before it

我们不在every weekend前使用介词

I play football every weekend.

我每周末都踢足球。

This is correct. We do Not say on/at every weekend. That is not correct.

上面这句话是正确的的。我们不说on/at every weekend。

And there is no -s at the end of weekend. We don’t say every weekends, no，we say every weekend in a singular form.

并且weekend尾部没有s。我们不说every weekends。我们说every weekend 用它的单数形式。

That because after every we have a singular noun.

因为every后跟单数名词。

And notice how we don’t say all the weekends as in some other languages, in English we say every weekend.

注意一下我们并不像其他语言那样说all the weekends，在英语中我们只说every weekend。