Talking about the Weekend: English Listening Practice - Learn Everyday English

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Hey, guys. This is Jack from tofluency.com. Welcome to this video where I'm going to give
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you some really useful English listening practice. And I'm going to do this by telling you about
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my weekend. Now, if you want to see more videos like this, then do two things: firstly, subscribe
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and then, check out the description of this video - it's going to be under the video - and
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there is a playlist with other videos that I have made that give you listening practice.
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So, as I said, it's Monday morning. I am here on my porch and I'm going to tell you about
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my weekend. So, Friday night... it wasn't very exciting. My wife came home, she wasn't
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feeling very well, so she went to bed and I looked after my son, I did some washing,
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I made dinner... we went to bed fairly early. Not very exciting.
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Saturday morning... not very exciting either because we tidied the house. So, I did things
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inside the house like.. I tidied the kitchen, I cleaned the kitchen, I washed up, I did
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more washing and then, I worked - you can't see it - but I worked in the yard. I mowed
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the lawn, I did some weeding, and I just made the garden and the yard look nicer. While
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I was doing this, my wife sorted through some clothes. So, she went through some clothes
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and put them into different boxes. As I say, not very exciting so far.
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But at lunchtime, we drove through the Smoky Mountains to Tennessee. Because we went to
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a baby shower. Now, a baby shower is a type of party where you celebrate the upcoming
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birth of a baby. Our friends are going to have a baby quite soon, so they had this party.
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It was a lot of fun. They had a bbq, some music, we played some games and they also
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got a keg. Now, this is something that I'm not used to (being) from the UK. But at parties
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here, you get a big keg of beer, and you pump the keg and pour the beer into cups. So, that
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was a lot of fun. We drove home quite late. My son slept all the way back. And then, I
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came home and watched some sports on TV.
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Now, Sunday was a special day here in the U.S. It was Mother's Day. Now, I'm sure that
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you have something similar where you are from. And what's strange is that it's different
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in different countries. So, Mother's Day in the U.K. is in March. It's a different day
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in France, where my parents live. And it's also different in the U.S. So, in the U.S.,
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it's in May. So, we had a Mother's Day brunch. You might be thinking, "What is brunch?" Well,
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brunch is a combination between breakfast and lunch, and this equals brunch. So, we
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had tacos, we had cake, we had chips and salsa, some orange juice, some coffee and all went
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to our friend's house with our children and just had a party in the morning. The children
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played outside, we watched them play and it was really nice. It was a really nice day.
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Now, in the afternoon, we went to a town quite close to where we live. So, we went to a park,
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we went to the lake, we had some pizza and then in the evening, we watched Game of Thrones.
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(It was a) fantastic episode. If you like Game of Thrones, let me know in the comment
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section. You know, we really enjoyed this. So, it was a really fun weekend. It's great
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when we have parties and things to do because sometimes, on the weekend, it can just pass
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you by. It can just go. But when you have parties to look forward to, it always makes
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it more exciting.
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So, what I want you to do, in addition to getting listening practice, I want you to
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have some writing practice. So, what I want you to do is leave a comment below and tell
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me what you did last weekend. This can be short. It can be long. I'll read every comment
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and on some comments, I'll make some corrections. So, leave your comment below this video...
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be sure to check out my other videos that give you more listening practice. And then,
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please give this video the thumbs up and subscribe. So, thank you for watching. See you next time!
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