Hello.
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Welcome back to the Learn British English Free
channel on Youtube.
My name is Chris and I'm the teacher from
www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk/
This is my last video of this year, 2016
and we're getting very close to Christmas now,
hence I'm wearing this Christmas, seasonal hat.
The point of this message is to remind you
about the lessons that we've done
and the things we've learnt together throughout this year.
First of all, I wanted to talk about my Skype lessons.
In November, I was pleased to complete the CELTA qualification.
That's a Cambridge certificate for teaching English as a foreign language.
And this means that I've got lots more lessons to offer you on Skype.
Please have a look in the video description
on Facebook and Youtube
for the links to my website for these.
I have my main British English lessons that you can take
and I've added some new options for you now,
including preparation for the IELTS test.
I have a background in business,
I studied at university here
and I can help you with job applications,
preparing for interviews,
as well as for studying at university.
Those applications and CV's as well (or resumés).
And another one is proof reading. This is where you can send me things
for me to check and provide writing corrections.
I also can consider paraphrasing - but that's a bit more complicated.
Please email me for all these lessons.
You can find information, costs, prices, content
on the different links on the website
and you can find my details to email me
and to add me on Skype where we can arrange the lessons for you.
2016, of course, has been a busy year for me, making lessons
and for you learning British English.
Now I'm going to remind you of a lot of the lessons,
some of my favourite ones and some of the most popular ones, too.
If you're watching on Youtube, you'll be able to see some of the annotations -
the links appear on your screen -
but you can also click on all of the links to the lessons
I'll be telling you about by looking again in the description
on Youtube and on Facebook.
I've tried to include everything there for you to make it easy.
We started off then, with accent and pronunciation work
with the busiest train stations in the UK.
Then, another one that went down quite well was a grammar lesson
about how to talk about falling asleep and waking up.
We look at a range of materials of course, we did some pronunciation and vocabulary
about different vocabulary words in British English
and how to get the British pronunciation correct.
This is the link to one of the lessons,
there are many more similar to that in the series that you can find on the Youtube channel.
I made another vocabulary lesson about how to describe specific quantities.
Moving away from verbal communication slightly,
there was a lesson I did about common hand gestures in Britain,
what does this mean? For example. Things like that.
Something happened in 2016, in the UK, called "Brexit".
You've probably heard of it.
I did a lesson about that and about the changes to our government
including our Prime Minister.
In July, it was my honour to work with Lucy from English with Lucy, who is quite wonderful.
We did two parts to our lesson about our favourite five idioms.
You can click on the one to my channel
and don't forget that the other part is on her channel.
I made a very popular lesson after that
to do with kitchen vocabulary
and another to do with items that you might need to use
in your toilet and bathroom.
I've made a few about pronunciation challenges.
These are ones where you can test yourself to see how well
you can pronounce certain words and then I pronounce them at the end of the video.
I made one, which was a request, about the months of the year.
And I've been a very lucky boy during this year because as well as
working with English with Lucy, who I mentioned a moment ago,
I also did a few lessons with Anna from English Like a Native who was an absolute delight,
of course.
And one link I've included is to our lesson about phrasal verbs for sleep.
We also did others about phrasal verbs and common proverbs.
Please see my channel and also hers, English Like a Native, for those.
And the last one, quite recent, was on one of my favourite topics:
British English compared to American English -
a fairly popular lesson I published was five words to avoid in the UK.
Some American words that you shouldn't use when you're in the UK.
That completes my selection of some of my favourite lessons from this year.
Thank you very much for watching and I hope to see you in 2017 of course.
Christmas and the new year are coming soon for us in Britain,
I will be going to my home town to celebrate with my family,
my parents and my brother.
If you celebrate Christmas, I wish you a very merry Christmas and happy new year
and if you don't, I hope you have a nice few weeks, too, as well,
until we meet in 2017 again.
Thanks once more for your time and your support,
it's really very kind
and good luck learning English in the future.
Good bye for 2016.
See you next year.