Learn the Top 10 Most Romantic Ideas for a Date in English
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Welcome back to Top Words!
My name is Alisha, and today we’re gonna talk
about the 10 most romantic things to do on a date.
So let’s go!
candlelit dinner
The first phrase is candlelit dinner, a candlelit dinner.
So there’s a candle and that’s the light,
so candle lit refers to that your dinner is
lit, or you see your dinner by a candle, like,
so it’s very very dim, the light is very low,
that’s the image of a candlelit dinner.
In a sentence, candlelit dinners make me nervous.
That’s true.
When I came home there was a candlelit dinner
on the table.
go for a long walk
The next expression is go for a long walk.
Go for a long walk, this could be a good thing.
So it’s just as it sounds, on your date, you
go for a walk somewhere, presumably in a nice
location or in a quiet location.
It’s a little strange to go for a long walk
down, like, a busy street.
The idea of go for a long walk is that you
have a chance to speak to the person that
you’re on a date with.
In a sentence, I think going for a long walk
can be nice sometimes.
In this sentence, we went for a long walk
around the city at dusk.
go bowling
The next expression is go bowling.
So if you like, maybe, very very casual or
kind of even sport ish dates, you can go bowling
for your date.
So in a sentence, I don’t think I’ve ever
been bowling on a date.
Maybe I have, I have been bowling, I don’t
know if I have been on a bowling date.
I don’t know, I feel like I’d be too preoccupied
with wanting to win the game and I wouldn’t
be focused on my date.
We go bowling every Sunday.
go to the aquarium
Yeah, okay, the next expression is go to the aquarium.
Ah! That’s kind of a nice idea!
I would say go to the aquarium or like maybe
go to a museum, both of those are maybe nice ideas.
So it’s just a place you go, maybe you can
learn something with the person you’re on
the date with or you can see something you’re
both interested in.
So I think going to the aquarium sounds like
a fun idea for a date.
In this sentence, oh!
I pet a stingray at the aquarium.
Have you ever done that?
Like, in those little petting pools, like
the stingrays, they had like stingrays…
this is my stingray impression, by the way.
I think they have stingrays kind of like hanging
out in there, and as you, as they kind of
stingray by, as they swim by, you can touch
them and they kind of feels like slimy, but
like, they’re like…
Aren’t they dangerous?
Mmm… they have, well, there’s the manta
rays, and they’re stingrays, but I think with
the stingrays, the ones that are poisonous…
this is their tail.
Stingrays are awesome, let me tell you!
But I think that they removed the stingers
from them so that like they can’t actually
hurt anybody, or, I don’t know, there’s something
they’ve done.
They’ve also got like other like weird touchy
things for kids to feel, in those little like
touchy ponds.
But anyway, that’s a cool idea for a date.
Let’s go!
go to the opera
The next expression is go to the opera.
Go to the opera sounds like a very formal
date idea, I think, I would be very nervous
if I went on an opera date.
So to go to the opera you have to, like, you
know, be nicely dressed and you go listen
to people sing in a language that you probably
don’t understand and then you are like, wow,
that’s pretty much how I would experience
an opera, I think.
So let’s see, in a sentence, I think going
to the opera could be really interesting but
I don’t know if I would enjoy it for a date.
In this sentence, we got dressed up and we
went to the opera.
go to the zoo
The next one is go to the zoo.
Go to the zoo is probably a popular date idea,
I imagine.
All right, in this sentence, I don’t like
going to the zoo because of the smell.
have a picnic
The next expression is have a picnic.
Aave a picnic is kind of like a classic date
thing, I think.
I don’t know that I would do this now, necessarily,
like, I have picnics with my friends, I’ve
had picnics one-on-one with my friends, I
think it was because they were my friend that
I was comfortable.
I think a date, a picnic date with wine cheese
and meat and dessert would be fantastic.
We hiked up the mountain and had a picnic
at sunset.
have dinner and see a movie
Ah!
The next one is probably the most classic
date idea, which is have dinner and see a
movie.
So you go to dinner and then you see a movie,
or vice-versa, you see a movie and then have
dinner together.
Especially, in my mind, if you see the movie
first and then go to dinner, then you have
something you can both talk about, right?
Or if you go to dinner first, you know, you
can speak to each other a little bit and then
go see the movie and not talk to each other,
which is fine.
But I feel like seeing the movie first and
then going to dinner seems to make more sense
to me because then you can actually talk to
the other person.
I don’t know, that’s my idea.
What are you doing next week?
Do you want to have dinner and see a movie
with me?
In this sentence, how about dinner and a movie?
take a ferry ride
The next one is take a ferry ride, or take
a boat ride, I guess.
So you just, you get on a boat together and
you go somewhere, sounds a little bit old-fashioned
to me but whatever.
In a sentence, let’s take a ferry ride this
weekend.
In this sentence, we took a ferry ride around
the Statue of Liberty.
walk on the beach
The next expression is walk on the beach,
another very classic date idea.
So you just walk together on the beach, maybe
it’s a long walk on the beach, I don’t know.
So a long walk on the beach or just a short
walk on the beach, even, can be very nice.
In a sentence, let’s take a walk on the beach.
In this sentence, I like long walks on the
beach.
So that’s the end!
Those are 10 romantic ideas for a date, if
you have different date ideas please be sure
to tell us about them in the comments, that
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