Intro
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Each year, spring brings an explosion of color. From blossoming trees to tulips of every shade, flowers create a sense of joy and new beginnings. Many people like to plant flowers in their gardens. Others like to fill their homes with pretty blooms, or surprise that special someone with a bouquet. But you won’t see Jason planting any rose bushes or bringing buds home from the flower shop. Hear him explain to Amy why he thinks flowers are more trouble than they’re worth.
Dialog
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Amy: Isn’t it so great now that it’s spring? There are just so many flowers blooming everywhere.
Jason: Uh, yeah, I guess there are flowers everywhere. I didn’t even notice, I guess.
Amy: You didn’t? I mean, I walk down the street in my neighborhood and it’s just exploding with color. It’s so beautiful, and it just puts me in such a good mood.
Jason: I mean, they’re pretty cool. I don’t know, I never plant flowers at my house. I sort of feel like if I’m gonna plant something, I’m gonna eat it.
Amy: Really? You don’t just like to make your house look more beautiful with flowers?
Jason: I don’t know. I guess I appreciate flowers when other people plant them. They just seem so fragile, like it’s just gonna rain on them and kill them or something.
Amy: What about having flowers inside your house, like do you ever get your girlfriend flowers or anything like that?
Jason: Well, that’s like asking for allergies, you know? Just bringing the hay fever right in your front door.
Amy: What? But they look so nice in a vase, it really brings a room together.
Jason: But they’re temporary. It just seems like, if you want to bring a room together you could buy a permanent decoration. It just seems like a waste of money to me, in a way, flowers, you know? If you’re gonna give someone a gift, it just seems like a weird way to go to me.
Amy: Does your girlfriend agree with you about that?
Jason: No.
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Discussion
Now that spring has arrived Amy sees beautiful flowers wherever she goes. She loves flowers because they are so colorful and pretty. They make her feel happy.
Jason doesn’t care about flowers. He doesn’t like to plant them around his house, because he only likes to plant things that he can eat. He also doesn’t like giving flowers as a gift because they are so temporary. But Jason’s girlfriend feels differently!
Do you like to plant, give, or receive flowers? What is your favorite kind of flower?
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i love flowers,my favorite is pink rose |
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GOSH!!! Today’s theme is my favourite one! :) Jason, your opinion about flowers has disappointed me a little bit. But what should I have expected of man?? Many men are indifferent to the flowers in the garden or in the room. Your and my husband’s viewpoints on this subject are similar. He considers if he plants something it will be vegetables and fruits. He says vegetable planting is much useful than just flowers in the garden. The vegetables and fruits worth all efforts you pay to them but flowers and temporary and fragile. I’m not going to argue and defend my opinion. I just let my husband to plant vegetables and fruits while I plant my beloved flowers. :D I have never had any interest to plant vegetables and fruits though I do care about vegetable garden as well. Flowers feast my eyes. I want to see them everywhere. My heart and soul are with flowers. I love, cherish and care about them so much. Each new flower is a great celebration to me!!! I have flowers at home (blooming cactuses, orchids, spathiphyllum, anthurium, hoya) and in the garden ( roses, lilacs, tulips, lilies, pions, hydrangea, toad lily, gladioluses, chrysanthemums, sweet-William and many others) I know, I’m crazy, but I mentally talk to my flowers and many of my poems have been dedicated to them. The answer on the question as “do you like to plant, give, or receive flowers?” comes by default – of course YES!!! :) It is very difficult to determine the only one kind of flowers I like most of all. I can name at least three kinds: orchid, rose and lilac |
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Jason, will you please go to a florist shop to buy a bouquet of roses and present them to Amy ,she is so sweet and I think that you kind of disappointed her with your lack of esteem for flowers. |
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