シャドーイング練習: What I Want for Christmas - Intermediate English Listening Practice - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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It's Christmas next week
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and in the last few weeks I've heard a lot of people talking about what they want for Christmas.
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I don't usually get a lot of presents.
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I used to get a lot of presents when I was younger, when I was a child, but now that I'm an adult I don't get as many.
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And when I do receive gifts they are normally surprises because I always tell people that I prefer surprises.
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I don't think that it's very fun to tell someone what you want them to buy you
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because there's no surprise in it.
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And I feel like I should just buy it myself if I want someone to buy it for me.
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But for the purpose of this video I have thought about several gifts
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that I wouldn't mind receiving this Christmas the first gift I
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would like to receive is a nice pillow a few months ago I went to a department store
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and I saw a really nice memory foam pillow and I think
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that it makes a difference when you have a nice pillow
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because you don't have so much neck pain or back pain because your posture improves while you're sleeping
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the pillows that i saw were about 40
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or 50 pounds i looked at some that were about 20 pounds
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but they seemed quite normal they didn't really seem to have
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that extra support that you need on your neck another gift
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that i would like to receive is an electric blanket whenever i say this people think
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that they are a bit of a fire hazard
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because they're electric you plug them into the socket
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and they warm up the blanket i think
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that it would be quite nice to use
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when you're watching TV on the sofa and have a blanket on you because it would keep you very warm and cozy.
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I went to a friend's house and they had LED lights around their TV.
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There are some TVs that you can buy with LED lights already installed
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and for example
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if you're watching a film about a forest then the wall changes to a green colour
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and if you're watching a scene about the ocean then the wall would turn blue.
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I think that it's something that is not necessary at all
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but it looks good when you see it so that would be another thing that I would like to receive.
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I think you can buy LED strips and there are ways to install it
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so that you don't have to buy a brand new tv just for this.
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I would also like some new trainers because mine have broken.
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Most of the trainers nowadays have netting on the toe area and it seems to break every time I buy some shoes.
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I know that they last several years but that's always the part that starts to break first.
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I don't know if they are designed this way so that you have to keep buying shoes every couple of years.
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As I've had this problem quite a few times I think
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that I would choose some trainers that don't have this netting
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and this way they would last a lot longer because the soles are fine and that's the only part that has broken.
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I have tried to sew them up as well and put a patch underneath the netting but it doesn't look the same.
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They are okay for going for a walk in nature.
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In the countryside when you know that you're going to get them dirty
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and not a lot of people are going to see them, but it's definitely something that I will need to buy in the near future.
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I would also like a few pieces of furniture from IKEA for example,
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but I know that it it would be quite difficult for someone to buy that for me, so...
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maybe an ikea gift card or voucher so that i could choose what i actually want to buy
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i saw a lamp a few months ago which was quite expensive
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and it felt like a lot of money to spend on yourself
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but if somebody buys it for you then it will be very nice to have
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I'm getting into drinking coffee and different types of tea as well.
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So I might like a gift set of different types of tea
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or different types of coffee
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because it would be very interesting to try all those different types out without having to buy a whole box of them.
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I think that sometimes we don't try new things because
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if we don't like it then we've got to drink or eat the whole packet.
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For example I bought a packet of red tea and I don't like it, it's very strong so it's still in the cupboard
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because there were 30 tea bags in the box and
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that means I need to drink 30 cups of a tea that I don't like.
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So I think that this might be a good present.
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I would also like a box of a selection of biscuits or crackers.
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We normally have crackers with cheese or pickle or Marmite.
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Pickle and Marmite are British foods.
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I don't know if you've ever heard of them.
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People normally don't like them if they haven't been brought up on them
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so if you didn't try them while you were growing up you probably won't like them them, they are quite strong.
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But it would be nice to have a selection of crackers with different flavours
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so that I could have them for supper with some cheese and some grapes,
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specially before new year.
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It's nice to have something to snack on in the evenings while you're watching tv.
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Biscuits would be nice because there are so many different types of biscuits here.
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My favourite biscuits are jammy dodgers which are biscuits with jam inside sweet jam and custard creams.
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Custard creams are vanilla biscuits with a vanilla cream inside.
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They are very nice.
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People usually receive tins of biscuits or crackers and even shortbread.
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Shortbread is one of my favourite foods to eat at Christmas.
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But I think that I would prefer to have biscuits or crackers because they have different flavours.
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Whereas when someone buys you a tin of shortbread it all tastes the same.
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It all tastes delicious but it's a bit samey.
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Now I'm going to say a few things
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that I don't want for Christmas this year and they're usually common presents that people receive at Christmas.
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I don't want a diary people usually give each other diaries
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but i never use them
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and i end up using them as notebooks just to write things in
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but i never use them to write down what i've done
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every single day you have to be quite committed to writing
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down what you did every day 365 times per year
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so that isn't going to happen and recipe books i found
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that i like the look of some recipe books
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but i don't seem to use them i seem to use youtube videos more than actual books
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it's a lot more straightforward
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and you can watch the videos especially youtube shorts in about 20 seconds
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and it explains everything to you and you can replay it and it takes 20 seconds but if you have a book,
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a recipe book then you take it into the kitchen it gets messy with all the ingredients
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and it just seems like too much bother they are good
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if you find a recipe and then you learn it by heart
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so you don't have to keep going back and checking the ingredients
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and the measurements but i think it's something that i don't need more of i won't be asking for this this year.
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Let me know in the comments section what you have asked for this Christmas
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if you have and if not what would you like this Christmas?
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Is there anything that people always gift you
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and you don't really like it but you say thank you anyway to be polite?
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Let me know in the comments section.
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Please like this video and subscribe to my channel.
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Thank Thank you and I'll see you in another one.
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