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1. outdoors and celebrations

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Fantastic. So today's topics are the outdoors and celebrations . I think i'm gonna ask you some questions about being outside. I was going with you, yeah, absolutely. So the first question is

do you enjoy spending time outside

I would say that depends on what i'm doing um and i'm also so I am a cold weather person so I prefer the cool if it's really hot.

I do not like to go outside. Um but if i'm playing baseball, then it doesn't matter what the temperature is, because that's something that I really enjoy doing. Um, but in terms of like picnics or taking walks, it's just not my thing > okay, what activities can people do outside?

Now he heap slots, um, taking walks going on for a run.

Cycling um, taking their dog out are going to parks having picnics, um playing sports, great ah and how can the weather affect these types of events? Well, obviously, if it's raining or if the weather is inclement or or kind of bad, then it's going to deter keep people away from doing those things because they don't want to be uncomfortable or you know get wet. So yeah definitely wonderful. And I like the fact that you said heaps what does heaps mi um a lot of a large number of so you said that you're not really an outdoorsy person.

So what things do you like doing inside

im a reader, I love to read also a gamer. I still play video games. Um, I grew up with that generation. So um, those are some of my favorite things to do indoors, fantastic.

Well, that was really interesting and you gave lots of ideas so well done to you. Thank you. I think it's time for you to ask me something. Yes. You ready, we're gonna talk about celebrations, celebrations, okay, all right.

So what is the most common celebration in your country?

Um, without a doubt, i'd say probably christmas at um in december and i'm from the uk originally. So um we celebrate christmas on the 25th of december.

Families get together, they spend time, they cook they open presents, and generally have a nice time. I'd say the second the second popular probably new years new years. Eve and new year's day we celebrate on the 31st of december, okay, um,

, those two holidays are actually very close to each other. So what do um people in the uk do the rest of the year

and they've got things during the summer so there might be different festivals. It could be private festivals as well where people go along and go to a book. Festival or a and a music festival, lots of different celebrations, easter popular, um in the uk, we don't have thanksgiving, so we don't celebrate that one.

Okay, um, do you know any local festivals in your area?

where I live and as chinese new year is really really popular here. We have a lot of people who are from china who live in this area. So every year I think it's january february depends and there is always a big celebration they have the chinese dragon, they have the drums and I have lots of great food at that time of year as well. Yes, um spring festival, it's called also yes.

Um, do you enjoy celebrating events?

I love it, I am quite quite a social person. So I love going out meeting new people, trying new um dishes. I remember last year there was one event there was a police festival from nepal and I got to go to this event they were celebrating their national day and we had a nepalese food was fantastic and awesome.

So finally, what was the last celebration that you attended

my friend, my friend had a birthday about 4 weeks ago just before the lockdown. So we had the lockdown and my friend had a birthday, we had went to a restaurant, we had a really nice um italian male mm, he celebrated, he had a great time and and that was that was the last I went to yeah, all right, well there were you answer those as usual very well um gave a lot of support, not a good details behind your responses.

Um, something you mentioned earlier was you said you were aa social person um what what would you say that means

um I enjoy spending time with people. I also I in fact, I also do spending time with myself, but um when when events are happening, ii do enjoy spending time with people are there any other words that you can use to describe that? Using social

can you think of any social butterfly social butterfly? Yeah, so i'm a social butterfly like to go to these different events and wonderful. Okay, um, what else did you say you said something at the very end there? I can't. It's quite tricky to remember this, but if you see anything leaves them little questions in the comments and we can answer those don't forget if you have any recent questions. Please leave them in the comments because we are always interested to hear and tell us if you have this question in your exam. Don't forget to like our video, if you do like jay, thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you, everyone see you later hope you enjoyed it, see you later. [noise]