What did you do last Valentines Day English Conversation Practice Improve Speaking Skills

valentine’s day

trina shares her thoughts about this

popular holiday

so trina monday is valentine’s day

are you excited no

that was a pretty direct answer

why are you not excited it’s a holiday

it’s a holiday for people that have

other people

so you’re not happy because you don’t

have other people

i have other people i have my sister

and my mom and my dad and my friends

but valentine’s day is more of a holiday

for people that have a boyfriend or a

girlfriend

or a wife or a husband or children

as opposed to being a single person with

nobody to

share it with

but could you share it with your sister

or your mother

or your father i could

i could and we do we send each other

gifts

we well this year i won’t be with

anybody

but i get to celebrate it with my sister

this weekend

well that sounds fun it is

so what kinds of things have you done on

valentine’s day

in the past um

gone out for dinner gone to a movie

had dinner at my parents house

had dinner at my grandparents house

that’s interesting why your grandparents

house

it was their wedding anniversary

wow that’s a great day to have a wedding

anniversary

it is and it was a lot of fun i got to

spend time with their

last few years together having dinner

with them

that sounds lovely so are you looking

forward to maybe having a valentine next

year

maybe we’ll see

mel and doran discuss various

valentine’s experiences

so doran what did you do last

valentine’s day

last valentine’s day i got disappointed

i think

because i teach at university and i’d

hear that japanese students

always give their teachers loads and

loads of chocolate

and even though it was my fifth year and

every other year

i only got like two or three i was

really excited because i’m at a

university now

and i got two chocolate bars

oh really how about you

are you looking forward to it this year

i’m planning on going to korea with my

co-workers

to escape valentine’s day

to escape the atmosphere yes

you’re not a fan then i like valentine’s

day

but i don’t plan on celebrating it this

year

is valentine’s day big in england

i haven’t lived in england for a while

now

about 10 years

when i was a kid it was a big deal in

school

like in junior school and we used to

have a little valentine’s post box in

our class

when we could write little messages to

our classmates

and then you put it in the box and it’d

get delivered

oh in a box yeah in a little valentine’s

post box

oh cool the teacher would deliver them

did you only get notes or did you get

candy as well

no it was just notes in england

we don’t really give candy and chocolate

and presents to people

we just give letters unless it’s like a

boyfriend or a girlfriend or something

but when i am seven i don’t really

bother

well the thing i liked about valentine’s

day

as a kid was that you’d get valentine’s

day cards from

everyone but i was always curious to see

what the boy i liked wrote to me

do you know who wrote what to you

yeah they would sign their name on the

card

what they signed names yeah

it’d be like happy valentine’s day adam

oh in england i don’t think you

put your name even if you know who it’s

from

you know it’s from your girlfriend or

your best friend or your grandma or

something

i think you just put a big question mark

really it’s half the fun you have to

figure it out

but my favorite valentine’s day gift is

always from my mom

she gives you a gift every year she’ll

send me gifts in the mail

and when i was in elementary school she

would hide chocolates and stuff in my

desk

it was awesome

that’s brilliant yeah

i don’t remember getting any really

really cool valentine’s presents

i remember giving a couple i was dating

a girl who lived in norway

when i was at university in england and

so for valentine’s day

is the same i think her birthday was

february the 11th

or something

oh yeah so i just flew over

i emailed her best friend who i knew

quite well

as well and he picked me up at the

airport and flew

over to norway yeah

and in norway it’s a very safe country

so they don’t really lock their doors a

bit like japan

and he just drove me down the to the

house and i walked in

at like nine in the morning

and she just came downstairs and she

nearly died

she thought i was a ghost

yeah that would be scary but fun

scary but fun that’s what she said when

she could talk

yeah so it was a double birthday

valentine’s day gift exactly

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