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Page 53 - Exercise 8

Conversation - Wedding day

Part A - Listen and practice.

• Your wedding pictures are really beautiful, Emiko.

• Thank you.Those pictures are from right after the ceremony.

• Where was the ceremony?

• At a shrine. When people get married in Japan, they sometimes have the ceremony at a shrine.

• That’s interesting. Were there a lot of people there?

• Well, usualiy only family members and close friends go to the ceremony. But afterward, we had a reception with family and friends.

• So, what are receptions like in Japan?

• There’s a big dinner, and after the meal, the guests give speeches or sing songs.

• It sounds like fun.

• It really is. And then, before the guests leave, the bride and groom give them presents.

• The guests get presents?

• Yes, and the guests give money to the bride and groom.