The best day of my life

All of us have beautiful memories in our lives that allow us to travel back in time and make us smile from ear to ear. Maybe it’s a special date, an unforgettable birthday, a fantastic holiday or possibly a good experience with your friends or parents.

Do you have any special memories?

Here you will find useful phrases or verbs used in all this material that will help you tell experiences about those important days in your life.

Listening practice

  • have special memories 🔊
  • be born 🔊
  • release a book, a song, a movie, etc. 🔊
  • get married 🔊
  • take place 🔊
  • have a nightmare 🔊
  • take a nap 🔊
  • play a trick 🔊
  • grow up 🔊
  • realize 🔊
  • give in, give up 🔊
  • make up one’s mind 🔊
  • break up with someone 🔊
  • become 🔊
  • pick up 🔊
  • cheat on someone 🔊
  • turn out 🔊
  • be scared 🔊
  • be heartbroken 🔊
  • be disappointed 🔊
Select exercise

Now, read the following conversation and pick the correct option for each white space in the dialogs. Correct answers will be in green and the wrong ones in red.

  • Alexa:  Tomorrow is St. Valentine; do you have any with your current husband?
  • Dayana:  Sure! We weren’t married yet. We met to have a nice walk, but he was a little bit quiet. Suddenly, he said that he was thinking a lot about our relationship.
  • Alexa:  Oh my God, what did he say?
  • Dayana:  He said he wanted to talk seriously with me.
  • Alexa: 
  • Dayana:  Nothing at first, I was really scared. I thought he wanted to .
  • Alexa:  And then, what happened?
  • Dayana:  He told me, he didn’t want me to be his girlfriend anymore. I thought he , and I was . I wished it were a nightmare, but suddenly he took out something from his pocket.
  • Alexa:  Ahhh, don’t tell me more! Was it an engagement ring?
  • Dayana:  Yes! He proposed that .
  • Alexa:  Fortunately, it turned out he was on you at first.