Easy English: Learn English with everyday conversations

55: Buying Gifts


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This week, with Christmas on the horizon, Mitch and Isi discuss gifts. They talk about the joy of giving gifts, Isi's thoughtful gifing vs Mitch's practical gifting. Mitch reveals the worst gift that Isi ever got him and are surprise gifts better than expected gifts for Isi? Even if it's a splintery, handmade spoon?

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Intro

Isi:

[0:22] Hello. Oh God. Hi.

Mitch:

[0:28] All of our podcasts always begin with you like hello oh god.

Isi:

[0:31] Oh god.

Mitch:

[0:32] My voice is gone. Illness update.

Isi:

[0:36] I'm back.

Mitch:

[0:38] I'm back. Oh yeah!

Isi:

[0:39] From the ill bed

Mitch:

[0:41] Did you hear the last podcast we... I recorded?

Isi:

[0:44] I didn't actually. Oh my god people will hate medidn't record uh didn't listen to it yet, no. But I want to listen to what you talked about. Oh god, yeah I didn't. I didn't have the headspace in my two-week illness to listen to it.

Mitch:

[0:58] Some could say I took one for the team. Some could say I took advantage of the fact you weren't here.

Isi:

[1:04] eah I'm back, had a nasty virus. Still am a bit... my voice is still not coming yeah it's kind of back now. Still have a bit of a, in the back.

Mitch:

[1:18] We're back in our usual position.

Isi:

[1:19] And it's not the morning, it's Sunday evening. (It is.) It is, I think the first time that we are having a little drinky. (We are, yeah.) With our podcast, since I don't know a year? We always did a morning podcast.

Mitch:

[1:37] And we're joined by a guest; Bert.

Isi:

[1:40] Yeah storm Bert.

Mitch:

[1:43] Storm Bert in the background just whistling away.

Isi:

[1:45] So we're two weeks, just home, two weekends two weeks and two weekends , just home, doing nothing. And now I was like, the weekend, I'm back.

Mitch:

[1:56] The last weekend before we go to visit our parents for Christmas.

Isi:

[2:01] Back to the mainland of Europe. So I was like, we do everything, we go to all the places, all the pubs, we meet friends.

Mitch:

[2:09] And what did we do?

Isi:

[2:10] We did not... well we did nearly nothing, because um, storm Bert came and... it's actually really really stormy and people... well, it was kind of like a weather warning to not leave too much and we obviously went for walks, because we got Nola, and it did feel not so good to do long drives, or go anywhere with a bus or so, because it's really stormy.

Mitch:

[2:38] Yeah, it's like the Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' music video out there.

Isi:

[2:41] So here we are, Sunday night episode, because tomorrow, actually, we will do an early, end of the workday. Because storm Bert will disappear tonight, they say. And then we will do, tomorrow afternoon, our Sunday. So hopefully a lot of Christmas deco, a nice Christmassy, pre-Christmassy dinner.

Mitch:

[3:03] We're in that early Christmas spirit, because, yeah, why the hell not?

Isi:

[3:09] Christmas is already full-on.

Mitch:

[3:10] And as I look at you, you are sort of engulfed in Christmas presents. They're on the table where we usually put the microphone. It's just a stash, a stack.

Isi:

[3:23] It's a lot of gifts, yeah. We have every gift we wanted for our families. We are absolutely ready for Christmas. And that's our topic today, gifts and gifting.

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