英语期末口语1.doc

Holiday A: Hello, Jim! I heard you were choosing gift for Father’s Day. Have you made the decision recently? B: Oh, no. I am in two minds between watch and tie. What about you? What do you want to send to your father? A: Nothing. B: Oh, why? A: Because my family don’t like the western holidays, we only celebrate traditional Chinese festivals. So, no Father’s Day, no Father’s gift. B: Well, I love our traditional festivals too, and the Spring Festival is my favorite. A: That’s also my favorite. B: When I was a child, every year the coming of the Spring Festival made me excited. It meant I could get new toys, different kinds of snack food and firecrackers. Which can’t be forgot is red packets from elderships. A: All most the same to you. And for girl, beautiful new clothes are quite attractive too. B: Usually, long before the Spring festival, people have begun to prepare for it, cleaning the house, preparing food and do Spring Festival shopping and so on. This process lasts almost a month or longer. A: And in the lunar New Year, people go to each other’s home to give New Year’s greetings and invite relations or friends for dinner. By the way, we must emphasize that “guo-nian” means not only the day of Spring Festival, and actually, we’ll celebrate from eve of lunar New Year to the night of Lantern Festival, lasting 15 days. B: Yes, quite right. In my opinion, the happiest time is eve of lunar New Year. At that night, people have a dinner together, staying-up to wait the near year’s coming, until the next morning. A: But I heard that in Guangdong, people don’t stay at home on the eve, they’d rather go to the flower market to buy some flower. It is said that it will bring good luck to the coming whole year. B: Yes, in different part of China, the traditions are not quite the same. But we have a theme in common, which is “family reunion”. Travel A: Hey, How are you? We haven’t met for a long time! B: Good! How about you? What are you up to these days? A: No bad. Quite b