跟读练习: 🎁 An English Lesson about Gifts and A Short Trip to a Jewelry Store 🎁 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
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Welcome to this English lesson about gifts.
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Gifts are one of the nicer things that people do for each other on this planet Earth.
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And I really love gifts, and I love it when people give gifts.
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And I love giving gifts myself.
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And I thought I should do a little English lesson for you about gifts.
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I was out this morning actually buying a gift for my daughter for Christmas.
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By the way, if you want to see that watch the video right until the end because I did take my camera with.
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And I did make a video while I was buying a gift for my daughter where I have a conversation with a native English speaker as I buy that gift.
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It's just a short little segment, but I think you will enjoy it.
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But anyways, back to the topic.
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I wanted to talk about gifts and do a little English lesson on it.
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Let me, first of all, list all of the times or celebrations, occasions, or holidays where we buy gifts in Canada.
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I'm sure these are very similar around the world.
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In fact, most of them will be the same, but maybe you don't know all the English words for them.
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So, number one, we definitely buy gifts when someone has a birthday.
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We buy gifts when people get married.
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So, when we go to a wedding we will definitely buy a gift.
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We will also buy a gift for someone when they have an anniversary.
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That's a pretty common time to buy a gift.
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We will buy a gift when someone graduates.
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So, when there is a graduation we will buy a gift.
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We will buy a gift when there is a birth of course.
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So, if we know someone, a couple, who has had a new baby we will definitely buy them a gift then as well.
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There's a few holidays when we buy gifts.
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We buy gifts of course for Christmas.
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So, we give gifts at Christmas.
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We give gifts on Valentine's Day, which is a very, very nice romantic holiday in February.
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And we usually give gifts on Mother's Day and on Father's Day.
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And I think one other time when we would give a gift is what's called a housewarming gift.
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So, if someone buys a new house or apartment and they have a party to show everyone their new place, we will sometimes bring them a housewarming gift.
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So, those I think are most of the times in life when we would buy someone a gift.
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But how do you know what to get someone?
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Well, there's a couple ways to figure out what gift to get someone.
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One way is to just be a really good listener.
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So, I'm going to challenge you as English learners to pay attention.
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When you pay attention to someone it means you listen to what they're saying so you can figure out the things that they like.
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So, sometimes for a week or so before someone has a birthday you may need to pay attention to what they are saying so that you can figure out.
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When you figure out something it means that you determine or discover something.
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So, you need to figure out what they want.
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Once you've figured out what gift to get you need to go obviously and buy the gift.
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A lotta times these days people buy gifts online, but you may go to a store and buy a gift.
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Another option instead of buying a gift is you could make a gift.
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In my family we try to make a gift for each other at Christmas instead of buying something.
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This could be somewhat hard if you're like me, and you're not very good at making things.
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But besides buying a gift or making a gift, you can also do something called regifting.
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When you regift it means you take a gift that someone else gave you for a past birthday or from a past Christmas, and if it's something that you didn't use you just wrap it up and you give it to a new person.
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Once you have the gift you usually wrap the gift, and you wrap the gift using wrapping paper.
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If you want an easier method, what I like to do is to put the gift in a gift bag and you just put some tissue on top that's a different color.
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So, those are the two options.
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You can wrap the gift, or you can put it in a gift bag.
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When you give a gift you will most likely also want to give a card.
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So, if you are giving a birthday gift, you probably want to give a birthday card.
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If you are giving a Valentine's Day gift, you probably want to give a Valentine's Day card as well.
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Same with Father's and Mother's day, you will probably want to give a card for that occasion as well.
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And then there's only two things left to do.
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You need to give the gift to someone, and then you get to watch them open it.
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Often times when our kids are opening gifts, especially for their birthdays, we also take pictures of the occasion.
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So, that was a little lesson about giving gifts in English.
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Before you go though just stick around, and here's a little clip of me buying a gift for my daughter at a store.
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So, let's head into the jewelry store, and let's see if I can find some earrings for my daughter.
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Could you show me where the earrings are (laughs)?
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- [Employee] Of course.
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They're all these different styles here.
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- Okay, thank you very much.
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I'll just have a look, - No problem.
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- and see what I need.
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- [Employee] All right, perfect.
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- Thank you.
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- [Employee] No problem.
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- So, we have quite a selection here of earrings.
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I don't know if you can see all of them.
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I need to buy something that's cute because it is for my younger daughter.
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So, I think I'm going to look at these earrings here.
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This is a good one.
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I think I will buy this one.
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Let's head over to the checkout.
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- All good to go?
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- I will take these.
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- Perfect. Thank you. - Thank you.
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(cash register beeping) - Would you like a little bag for that as well?
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- Yes, please.
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- Perfect. All right, so your total's going to come to $18.65 please.
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Perfect. Thank you.
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(cash register beeping) All right, and $1.35 will be your change.
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- Thank you very much.
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- No problem.
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There you go.
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And voila. - Awesome, thanks a lot.
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- No problem, have a great day.
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- See ya. Well, hey, that was just a little English lesson about gifts and gift giving.
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I'm Bob the Canadian.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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在这节英语课程中，Bob分享了关于礼物的重要性和购买礼物的经验。他强调礼物是人与人之间表达关爱的一种方式，并列举了在加拿大购买礼物的各种场合，例如生日、婚礼、毕业、圣诞节等。这些节日和庆祝活动在世界各地都非常普遍，因此学习相关的英语表达对英语学习者尤为重要。
日常交流的五个常用短语
- 买礼物：购买礼物时常用的表达，适用于多种场合。
- 好好倾听：在选择礼物时，了解对方的兴趣和需求是很重要的。
- 包装礼物：将礼物用彩纸或礼品袋包装，增添惊喜感。
- 自制礼物：在某些特殊情况下，自己制作的礼物更具心意。
- 再赠礼物：将未使用的礼物送给别人，这是一种特别的选择。
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- 观看视频：首先，看YouTube学英语，仔细聆听Bob的演讲，注意他的语调和发音。
- 暂停并模仿：在每个句子后暂停，尝试模仿他的发音和语调。shadow speak是极佳的练习方式。
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- 反复练习：多次重复以上步骤，直到你感到自信且自然为止。
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通过这种方法，你不仅可以提高英语听说能力，还可以加深对日常交流情境的理解，更好地适应各种社交场合，如果你认真对待这段练习，那么你一定会有很大的进步。现在就开始你的shadowing之旅吧！
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