A British Christmas: Traditions

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it's Christmas
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well not quite Christmas it's nearly
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Christmas and so I thought this would be
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a good time to talk about Christmas
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now i know not everybody celebrates
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Christmas
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however in the UK a lot of people do
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celebrate Christmas and not always for
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religious reasons so I thought it would
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be a good idea for me to talk to you
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about Christmas what it means to us some
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of the traditions that some of us have
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here in the UK and explain some of the
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vocabulary now i have just done a
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festive vocabulary pronunciation list
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well that's a tongue twister if ever
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there was one a festive vocabulary
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pronunciation list so if you would like
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to hear these words pronounced clearly
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for you then why not head over there and
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practice that after you finished
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watching this video
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yes don't leave me just yet wait until
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this video is finished then go watch
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that video so Christmas is of course a
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religious festival it's all about
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celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
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and many of you may know the story of
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the Nativity Mary and Joseph giving
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birth to baby Jesus in a outhouse
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because there was no room at the inn and
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the three wise man and all that kind of
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stuff but for a lot of us
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christmas is more to do with spending
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time with your family having time off
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work having Christmas dinner with the
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people that you love and care about
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giving and receiving presence is about
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Santa Claus and celebration and hope for
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the future
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every year we Brits complain that
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Christmas is starting earlier and
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earlier they're not just advertising in
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december or mid-november then now some
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shops are advertising in September
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it's crazy but Christmas is a very
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commercially lucrative time of year we
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spend a lot of money on gifts and food
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and treats for ourselves and for the
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people that we love so let's go to the
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first of december many of us will have
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what's called an advent calendar which
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is a calendar which you open a new
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window every day and it helps you to
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keep track of how many days left till
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Christmas and inside each window will be
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a chocolate if you get a chocolate
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advent calendar and most of us do
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because otherwise what's the point as
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you're running up to Christmas you start
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preparing by buying things like
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christmas jumpers we'll have Christmas
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earrings silly hats if we would have set
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up our christmas decorations with our
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Christmas tree lights and tinsel bore
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balls and star or an angel at the top of
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the tree and then we start hunting for
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Christmas presence now when we buy the
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perfect presence then we have to wrap
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them up in Christmas wrapping make sure
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that's an are not a w because the W is
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silent or wrapping paper to wrap the
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presence and then we place the presents
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underneath the Christmas tree and we
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wait and we wait until we get to
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christmas eve and christmas eve the
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children and the adults sometimes we'll
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put out a Christmas stocking or a
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pillowcase now a Christmas stocking is
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just a huge stock and it's basically
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there to fill with trinkets lots of
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lovely little goodies like oranges
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chocolates stationary I don't know
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little bit of jewelry or just little not
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so expensive gifts for the children to
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have first thing in the morning because
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they're so excited they wake up at like
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five in the morning running down to see
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if Santa Claus
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whoo-hoo and his reindeer Rudolph the
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red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny
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have arrived to come down the chimney
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I don't know why he doesn't just use the
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front door and place lots of gifts and
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drink it under the tree and something in
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the stocking so then Christmas morning
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arrives and that's when we all do our
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present opening normally they'll be a
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different tradition in each House as to
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what they have for breakfast or who they
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see for Christmas morning but then the
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big event on christmas day is Christmas
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dinner
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this is usually a roast and you'll have
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all the trimmings which means all the
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extra bits and bobs like stuffing and
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pigs in blankets and roast potatoes
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cranberry source is just incredibly
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delicious food apart from Brussels
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sprouts Brussels sprouts you either love
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them or you hate them I hate them but
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they're very good for you
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so then you gorge on Christmas dinner
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and after christmas then you'll have
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Christmas pudding which sometimes people
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set fire to the Christmas pudding
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there'll be lots of alcohol usually
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involved in Christmas lots of wine
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champagne secures then after Christmas
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to everyone just kind of Lies out in
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front of the television and we'll watch
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some incredible television some old
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movies that been playing again and again
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and again every year but everybody loves
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and it's just about spending time
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together now it does depend on how good
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or bad you've been each year as to
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whether you get presence because Santa
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Claus has a list of all the people who
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are nice and all the people who are
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naughty and if you're naughty
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you won't get a gift so I'm just going
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to let you know that I've been very nice
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this year
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all i want for christmas is for you to
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press subscribe
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thumbs up now I'd love to know what you
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want for christmas so please do tell me
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already following me on social media
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not head over to www.vitac.com me I hope
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you all have a wonderful winter festive
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season whether you celebrate Christmas
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or not have a wonderful time
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lots of love i see you in the next video
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nah nah
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