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Happy Hour
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Happy Hour
快乐时间

Learn about Gerunds and Infinitives

Date: Aug 29 2012

Themes: Food

Grammar: Gerunds vs. Infinitives

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Five o’clock might be the happiest hour of the day. It’s when most people are done working. At five, you can finally leave your office behind and head home. But it might make you even happier if, instead of going home, you stopped for a drink and a snack with friends.

That’s the idea behind happy hour. Most happy hours begin right after people get off work and end just before dinner. Bars and restaurants offer specials on drinks and small plates during this time. It’s a way for the bars and restaurants to get more customers, and for the customers to get a little more happiness in their lives. Hear Jason and Amy talk about going out for happy hour.

下午五点可能是一天中最快乐的时刻。这个时候大部分人已经结束工作。五点一到,你终于可以离开办公室回家了。不过,停下来和朋友喝一杯,吃点儿零食,而不是匆忙回家,这样会感觉更快乐。

这就是快乐时间的理念。快乐时间通常开始于下班后,直到晚餐前才结束。酒吧和餐馆在快乐时间推出特价饮品和小吃。这是酒吧和餐馆招揽更多顾客的方式,而顾客也可借此为其生活增添些许乐趣。听听詹森和艾米如何庆祝快乐时间。

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Amy

Amy

Jason

Jason

Amy:  It’s 5 o’clock. Happy hour!

Jason:  Oh yeah, is there a good one around here?

Amy:  Yeah, there’s a lot. I really like to go to happy hours where there’s food and drinks.

Jason:  Yeah.

Amy:  And sometimes you can even make a meal of it.

Jason:  Yeah, just order a couple of appetizers. It’s a meal.

Amy:  Right.

Jason:  Sometimes it’s a little early for me to start drinking, though, you know? People are inviting me to happy hour and I’m like, I’m just not ready to have alcohol right now.

Amy:  It’s true. I really love it when happy hours go to like 7. Because then you can have a drink and it’s actually around dinner time.

Jason:  You know what I’ll use happy hours for, though, is to go to places I can’t go to normally.

Amy:  Yes. They might not have the full menu available at happy hour, but they’ll have a few things, and sometimes they’re really delicious and way cheaper.

Jason:  Yeah, and, I mean, bar drinks are overpriced anyway. I feel like going to happy hour is almost like getting something on sale.

Amy:  Right. I do love to get a deal.

 

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Amy tells Jason it is 5 o’clock, which means that it is happy hour. Happy hour is when many restaurants and bars offer cheaper food and drinks. Amy wants to go out for happy hour.

Amy likes it when there are food specials during happy hour, not just drink specials. Sometimes a few appetizers are enough for her dinner. But she prefers happy hours that go a bit later because otherwise it is too early for dinner. Jason thinks that sometimes happy hour is too early to start drinking, too.

Jason likes it when expensive restaurants offer happy hour specials. Then he gets to try food at places he wouldn’t normally be able to afford. He and Amy agree that it’s fun to get food and drinks on sale.

Is happy hour popular in your country? Do you like going out to happy hour?

 

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Takki

Takki

Ukraine

So ,in my country we don’t have “happy hour ”.


But on friday we like to go to pub of cafee and selebrate the end of hard week.(Saturdays and Sundays too).


But on monday we must go to work as usual. 


09:47 AM Aug 29 2012 |

Sami Aswad

Sami Aswad

Iraq

Unfortunately happy hour is not popular in my country but we have another thing it is almost like happy hour , like when me and my friends finish a hard work or exams we either hang our or go on a picnic and really that is soooo fun ,I really enjoy it :) btw. I liked the idea of happy hour :)

09:26 AM Aug 29 2012 |

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jjuicy

China

i will finish my work at 6,and then return home,maybe the happy hour is too short for me. i feel so hungry for dinner

09:06 AM Aug 29 2012 |

nourelyakine

Algeria

I like going out to happy hour, really it’s great Smile

08:34 AM Aug 29 2012 |

blue-sonnet

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I work with computer at home so I cant make my happy hour the same way you said. instead I enjoy dear EBABY & some other websites after work ;D
  

08:03 AM Aug 29 2012 |

8312016

8312016

Switzerland

yes i agree with snak and drink if i wasnt so tired. its couse we forget working in many hours. bar and dancing in my country is ban and we dont have any bar.


i wish everybody enjoy his or her job. and have a good salary.


altough its depended on job not in our strugle and eficency in organization.


i hope everybody have a good future if all of our political persons permit  us.


at the end i wish good luck for u.


thanks for ur attention 

06:59 AM Aug 29 2012 |

alsofee

alsofee

Yemen

I wish if there is happy hour in my country.


05:40 AM Aug 29 2012 |

Sun_daisy

Sun_daisy

China

Yes !I like .

05:39 AM Aug 29 2012 |

Summer0113

Summer0113

China

There is more happy hour in big city in my country,i like it bcs it’s as same as on sale.

03:02 AM Aug 29 2012 |

dream-iou

dream-iou

China

I like going out to happy hour with my friends anytime,They always make a joking on me when I pig out.

02:08 AM Aug 29 2012 |

samirah

samirah

Saudi Arabia

I hope happy hours for all.

01:48 AM Aug 29 2012 |

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