Joke: Birthday Gift Dreams
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Birthday Gift Dreams
Intermediate · Vocabulary Building · Past Tenses
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At breakfast AU PETIT-DÉJEUNER , a woman said to her husband, "Honey, I had the wildest dream LE RÊVE LE PLUS FOU | LE PLUS ÉTRANGE last night. I dreamt that I saw a diamond necklace COLLIER ! What do you think it means?"
The husband thought about it for a moment, and answered, "Well, you know, darling CHÉRIE | MA CHÉRIE , maybe you'll find out what that dream means on your birthday."
Some time later, they were having breakfast again, and the wife said, "Honey, I just had another dream. I was wearing JE PORTAIS | J'AVAIS SUR MOI diamond earrings! What do you think it means?"
The husband answered, "Your birthday is even closer TON ANNIVERSAIRE EST ENCORE PLUS PROCHE now, sweetie CHÉRIE | MA CHÉRIE , so I bet JE PARIE | JE SUIS SÛR(E) QUE you're going to find out what that dream means!"
Another morning at breakfast, the wife said, "Honey, I had a dream last night that someone gave me a diamond tennis bracelet. What do you think this dream means?"
The husband answered, "Sweetie, it's your birthday next week, and I promise, you'll find out exactly what that dream means."
The day before the wife's birthday, she said to her husband, "Honey, I dreamt last night that you gave me a diamond ring! Do you know what that dream means?"
The husband answered, "Sweetie, I love you so much, and all I can say is TOUT CE QUE JE PEUX DIRE, C'EST... there's only one more day until you find out AVANT QUE TU NE DÉCOUVRES | JUSQU'À CE QUE TU DÉCOUVRES what all these dreams mean."
The next morning at breakfast, the husband gave his wife her birthday present CADEAU D'ANNIVERSAIRE . It was a book: "How to Interpret Your Dreams."
📘 Key Vocabulary
📖 Grammar Points
1. Past simple for completed events
The story mainly uses the past simple:
"said," "had," "dreamt," "saw," "thought," "answered,"
"gave".
These forms describe completed events in the past.
2. Past continuous for an action in progress
The expression
"I was wearing diamond earrings"
uses the past continuous
(was/were + -ing).
It describes what the woman had on at a particular moment in her dream.
3. "Going to" for a prediction
The husband says,
"You're going to find out what that dream means."
We commonly use
be + going to
for a prediction based on the situation or evidence.
4. "Until" for a point in time
"There's only one more day until you find out."
Here, until introduces the point when something will happen.
In French, this can often be translated as
"jusqu'à ce que".
5. "What do you think it means?"
This is a useful way of asking someone for their interpretation
or opinion:
"What do you think it means?"
The word what introduces the question about the meaning.
🔁 Synonyms & Alternatives
These alternatives are useful in everyday English, although find out is particularly natural when talking about discovering information.
💬 Mini Dialogue
Context: Two friends, Thabo and Lerato, are talking about birthday presents.
Thabo:
"My wife keeps having dreams about expensive presents."
Lerato:
"Really? What does she dream about?"
Thabo:
"First, she dreamt about a diamond
necklace
COLLIER
.
Then she dreamt she was wearing diamond earrings."
Lerato:
"And what did you say?"
Thabo:
"I told her she'd
find out
DÉCOUVRIR
on her birthday."
Lerato:
"So what did you give her?"
Thabo:
"You'll have to wait and see!"
Uses past simple for the story and everyday expressions such as "find out", "really?" and "wait and see".
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