Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
Let's learn English and at the same time let's learn about Christmas.
Hey Bob the Canadian here.
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Well today we're going to talk about Christmas.
Christmas is coming.
On December 25th it will be Christmas.
And in this video I just wanted to talk about some of the ways the world looks different
as Christmas is approaching, as Christmas is getting closer.
So we're going to look at Christmas trees.
There's actually one behind me right now.
It's not lit up because it's daytime.
And we're going to look at Christmas decorations in stores and restaurants.
Christmas causes local businesses to decorate.
And I'm hoping this evening to be able to show you some footage from our local town's
Christmas parade.
So that's all coming up.
Welcome to this video.
Let's learn some English and let's learn a little bit more about Christmas.
So as I said we're gonna talk a little bit about Christmas trees today.
Christmas trees usually have Christmas lights on them.
You can kind of see the Christmas lights on this tree.
I will admit it would be a little more fun to be here at night, but I have to shoot some
of this video during the day so you can see me!
You'll actually find trees almost everywhere.
You'll find them in buildings.
You'll find them in stores.
You'll find them in restaurants sometimes.
Christmas trees generally start to show up around December 1st.
Even the bank has a Christmas tree right here!
So you might be wondering how do you get a Christmas tree?
Well that depends on whether you want a fake tree or a real tree.
If you want a fake tree you can simply go to almost any store and buy a tree there.
A fake tree is made out of plastic and other materials, and the cool part about it is that
you can use it every year.
But maybe you want a real tree.
There's a couple ways to get a real tree.
You can come to a Christmas tree farm.
A Christmas tree farm grows Christmas trees and allows people to come in December to cut
their own Christmas tree.
They usually have saws.
They usually have saws that you can borrow so that when you go out to get a Christmas
tree you can cut it down.
So I thought we should take a walk out to the actual Christmas tree farm.
I apologize that there's no snow.
Usually when you do something like this, when you come out to get a Christmas tree there's
usually lots of snow on the ground.
But you can see that this Christmas tree farm, there's actually lots of trees behind me for
people to harvest as Christmas trees.
And you can even see where some people have already come and gotten their tree.
If you don't want to cut down your own Christmas tree you can always go to almost any local
store - grocery stores, hardware stores - almost every store in Canada in December sells Christmas
trees, and you can just go there and buy one.
And of course the whole point of having a Christmas tree is that you decorate it once
you have it at your home or in your place of business.
So you can see our Christmas tree, this actually Bob the Canadian’s Christmas tree, it's
a fake one.
We have ornaments on it.
You can see a little ornament down here, and we have lights.
So I mentioned that a lot of shops and restaurants decorate for Christmas.
We'll go look at a few.
Usually right around the end of November, beginning of December is when stores or shops
and restaurants start to, start to decorate for Christmas.
So let's go pop in and look at what kind of decorations they have put up.
Oh, hey, you can just walk past, it's no big deal, I'm just gonna start my van over here
so, yep,
You can see this restaurant has stockings hanging up, I'll give you a bit of a closer
look.
You can see that part of their decorating is they've put stockings up.
Stockings are something that people usually hang in their homes, or houses, and people
put gifts in them.
But I think this restaurant is just putting them here just to decorate for Christmas.
So I feel like I'm failing a little bit.
I’ve, I've been to a couple of restaurants and they don't have any Christmas decorations
up.
I was thinking there would be a lot more to show you, but I can talk a little bit about
Christmas Spirit.
The stores that have decorations up have a lot of Christmas spirit.
The stores and restaurants that don't, don't have a lot of Christmas spirit.
That means that they're not celebrating Christmas as much as maybe I would like them to.
So the store behind me has, right on the very front of the store, it says, "Canada's Christmas
Store" So they’re definitely celebrating the Christmas season by decorating the front
of their store.
So, "Canada's Christmas Store!"
I think that's probably a good place to buy some Christmas presents!
So this store doesn't just decorate for Christmas.
This store has a whole Christmas section where you can buy Christmas things.
If you look along here you'll see all kinds of Christmas ornaments, and if you look up
here you'll see all different Christmas trees.
Now these are fake Christmas trees.
These aren't real Christmas trees.
And there's some up here too, let me put it up here so you can see.
So on this side you'll see all kinds of tinsel.
This is more Christmas colour decorations that you can put around your home or on your
Christmas tree.
Another whole section of Christmas ornaments, different colours, different shapes, different
sizes.
And then again more, more Christmas trees.
So you'll notice too up behind me this store has a Christmas wreath.
This up here is a Christmas wreath.
And they've put some balloons as well hanging from the ceiling that are in Christmas colours,
so red, and white are Christmas colours.
So they have a wreath, and they also have some near the front of their store.
I'm just trying to find my way out of the store.
So the store behind me is a clothing store and you can actually see in the window here
that they have a Christmas tree.
So this store has a mannequin with some clothes on it that they're selling and they have in
their front display window a Christmas tree.
So you'll notice in this store too that even on top of the clothing racks they have little
signs, and above the signs they have little what look like Christmas presents.
So behind me here there's actually a rack of mittens, I'm not sure if you can see it,
but it's designed to look like, a little bit like a Christmas tree.
So behind me you can see what we would call a Christmas market.
So a Christmas market is a place where you can buy things for Christmas.
You can buy fruits and vegetables.
You can buy wreaths and things to decorate your home with.
You can buy fresh baked goods like breads, but yeah, Jen and I are here today actually
selling our wreaths and centrepieces at a Christmas market.
So I'll hold this up a little higher so you can have a better view.
So that is a Christmas market.
So normally Santa would be over there, but apparently he's feeding the reindeer right
now, so we'll see him, hopefully he comes back a bit later.
So I have a special friend for you to meet.
Sometimes you see Santa at a parade, but sometimes..
Oh I see what you're doing.
Sometimes you see Santa at the mall.
So, hi Santa how are you?
How are you doing I'm good!
I'm pretty good!
Am I supposed to ask you for what I want for Christmas?
That's usually how it works!
I'd like all the people that I teach English to on Youtube to learn lots of English this
year.
Well, I'll do my best!
Thank you very much!
That's all we can do.
So another thing that we have around Christmas time, around the Christmas time of year is
local towns have parades.
So this street will actually be closed later today and there will be a parade.
So right now there's cars driving along, but this evening they'll close the road, and you
can actually see that people have their chairs lined up kind of reserving the spot where
they're going to sit tonight.
So this road's going to be closed.
It's a nighttime parade, so it will be dark.
Night Time parades are really really cool.
My wife and kids and I are coming down and hopefully I can get some scenes of the parade
for you.
So I'm sorry I didn't bring my microphone so this might be hard to hear.
I'm standing out here on the street.
We're waiting for the parade to start.
It should be coming from that direction soon.
Like I said before maybe you already heard me say this, it's raining.
It's a cold night to be out waiting for a parade.
But it should be coming down the street soon.
So parade will quite often start with a police car.
No one's in trouble here, but usually the beginning of a parade starts with a policeman
in a police car coming by.
Then you'll usually have some dignitaries, maybe the mayor of the town, maybe local government
officials.
They really like to be in parades.
Here we have some fire fighters out.
And you'll notice this is our first float.
So the trailer behind the truck is called a parade float.
Here we have a marching band.
Quite often parades have marching bands in them.
And they walk along and play their music.
And even tractors and big excavator machines take the time to decorate themselves for Christmas.
Here we have a large transport truck with lots of Christmas lights on it.
And you'll see that the back of the float part we would call this the parade float,
has lots of Christmas trees.
Here we have another truck, and in front we have a small four wheeler and a couple of
kids in a canoe celebrating Christmas in the parade as well.
Here I thought this was cool because there were so many flags.
I'm not sure if you see your flag, but this was the tail end of a marching band and they
had some flags from different countries around the world.
Here is a polar bear, I think, with a mini float.
Usually you see a horse or two in a parade and the fire department usually brings out
their fire trucks.
So here we see one fire truck from the fire department in the parade and in a moment here
we'll see another fire truck from the fire department with all of their lights on and
sometimes they use their siren although it's quite loud.
And here we have an ambulance.
No one's hurt.
They're here to celebrate Christmas, not to help anybody.
Here we have a boat decorated as a float.
So that rhymes.
We have a boat that is decorated as a float in the parade as well.
And here we have - this is the last float in the parade.
The last float in the parade always has Santa Claus on it.
So you can see his reindeer out front, Santa Claus is in his sleigh, and he's waving to
all the people this is the last float.
That's the end of the parade.
Thanks for watching!
Well hey, Bob the Canadian here, thank you so much for watching this video about Christmas.
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