Hello wonderful Go Natural English
learners! I'm Gabby your English teacher
and founder of Go Natural English. And
I'm here today on Christmas Day to wish
you a very Merry Christmas and I want to
share some really useful phrases with
you that you can use if you are
celebrating Christmas with your American
friends in the United States or if
you're celebrating anywhere in the world
or if you're just curious about some new
English phrases. I'm going to share about
four or five very useful, practical,
natural phrases. So if that is okay with
you if I share those phrases then please
type
'yes' in the comments. I'm so excited to
share with you. Ah alright good I see
some yeses already so I'm going to share
some phrases with you based on things
that I've been doing this holiday weekend.
So yesterday on Christmas Eve or the
night before Christmas we call it
Christmas Eve I went with my friends to
see Christmas lights. This is a common
tradition that we do in the United
States is putting christmas lights on
our houses or on trees or to decorate
just about anything.
So if you see Christmas lights if you go
with your friends or if you're by
yourself and you want to start a
conversation with a stranger and this is
a great comment to say are you ready?
You could say 'look at the Christmas
lights' or 'look they're so beautiful'. So
try repeating as you hear me say these
phrases because you're going to learn
more if you repeat after me. If you
listen that's great but if you actually
say the phrases that's even better.
So yesterday I went to look at christmas
lights with my friends here in Texas. I'm
in Texas to celebrate Christmas.
Ok today is Christmas. So today everyone is
saying Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
and if you don't expect to see your
friends again for maybe a week or two
you could say Happy New Year's because we
know in just a few days it's going to be
the new year. So I won't tell you Happy
New Year's yet because I will see you
again before New Year's. Tomorrow. I'm
doing a daily lesson here on YouTube. Um if
you want to know when exactly what time
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So it's really great. There's about 60,000
English learners on it. You should join
it too. So also if you are invited to a
Christmas party you might have presents.
You might want to bring a present or you
might get presents but you'll probably
know and if you're not sure you can ask
your hosts. Are we exchanging gifts? Are
we exchanging presents? Should I bring a
present? Or you could ask 'should I bring
a bottle of wine'? Or 'should I bring a
dessert'?
Should I bring something? These are all
different ways of asking what you can
bring because it's really polite if
someone invites you to a party to ask
what you can bring.
Ok let's say that you're opening gifts
at a Christmas party. Someone might say
'okay it's time for gifts'. That means it's
time where everyone's going to sit around
probably in the living room and open
gifts. So this can take some time.
It's really fun watching people open
gifts and seeing their faces as they're
surprised
hopefully as they're happy so that's
really fun. If you are at a party there's
probably going to be different kinds of
beverages
and its its traditional to have wine
so you might want to ask, 'could you pass
the wine'? Or someone may ask you, 'could you pass the
wine?' so this is a really great phrase to
use. Also in the United States there's a
lot of people who celebrate Hanukkah so
even at a Christmas party you might meet
people who celebrate Hanukkah which is a
Jewish holiday. Or if you're out
talking to your friends just out and
about in public you might meet people
who say to you
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy
Holidays. Happy Holidays is a way to say
everything. It doesn't matter what
religion you are so if you want to be
careful and especially respectful and polite
you could say Happy Holidays. It's a
really great way to cover everyone. So
those are some good phrases I think for
Christmas and for the holidays. We talked
about lights, we talked about if you go
to a Christmas party, we practiced some
phrases for greeting people saying Happy
Holidays, we talked about could you
please pass the wine, uh gifts, and I think
that's about it. Of course you might have
cookies or food or some desserts or
sweets and you could say, 'oh these are
delicious' to give your compliments to
the chef.
I talked about this in my Thanksgiving
lesson if you saw that last month. My
compliments to the chef.
If your host has really nice
decorations you can say, 'I love your
decorations'. Beautiful decorations. So
those are a lot of phrases that will
help you this Christmas and this holiday
season
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas
and I wanted to ask you a question
as well. In every one of my live lessons
I like to ask you a question. So my
question for you today please leave your
answer in the comments is what
time Oh first what city do you live in?
What city do you live in and what time
would you like to see our live English
lessons? If I can do it at the same time
every day I can't promise right now
because I'm traveling but I can see when
most of you would like to see our live
lesson and tried to do it then. So tell
me two things:
what city are you watching from and
what's your major
the biggest city close to you because I
might not know where you are if it's a
small city so what is your closest
biggest city and what time would you
like to have our live YouTube English
lesson?
Alright cool. I'll watch for your
comments. Again Merry Christmas Happy
Holidays and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye!