A British Christmas: Traditions

it's Christmas

well not quite Christmas it's nearly

Christmas and so I thought this would be

a good time to talk about Christmas

now i know not everybody celebrates

Christmas

however in the UK a lot of people do

celebrate Christmas and not always for

religious reasons so I thought it would

be a good idea for me to talk to you

about Christmas what it means to us some

of the traditions that some of us have

here in the UK and explain some of the

vocabulary now i have just done a

festive vocabulary pronunciation list

well that's a tongue twister if ever

there was one a festive vocabulary

pronunciation list so if you would like

to hear these words pronounced clearly

for you then why not head over there and

practice that after you finished

watching this video

yes don't leave me just yet wait until

this video is finished then go watch

that video so Christmas is of course a

religious festival it's all about

celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ

and many of you may know the story of

the Nativity Mary and Joseph giving

birth to baby Jesus in a outhouse

because there was no room at the inn and

the three wise man and all that kind of

stuff but for a lot of us

christmas is more to do with spending

time with your family having time off

work having Christmas dinner with the

people that you love and care about

giving and receiving presence is about

Santa Claus and celebration and hope for

the future

every year we Brits complain that

Christmas is starting earlier and

earlier they're not just advertising in

december or mid-november then now some

shops are advertising in September

it's crazy but Christmas is a very

commercially lucrative time of year we

spend a lot of money on gifts and food

and treats for ourselves and for the

people that we love so let's go to the

first of december many of us will have

what's called an advent calendar which

is a calendar which you open a new

window every day and it helps you to

keep track of how many days left till

Christmas and inside each window will be

a chocolate if you get a chocolate

advent calendar and most of us do

because otherwise what's the point as

you're running up to Christmas you start

preparing by buying things like

christmas jumpers we'll have Christmas

earrings silly hats if we would have set

up our christmas decorations with our

Christmas tree lights and tinsel bore

balls and star or an angel at the top of

the tree and then we start hunting for

Christmas presence now when we buy the

perfect presence then we have to wrap

them up in Christmas wrapping make sure

that's an are not a w because the W is

silent or wrapping paper to wrap the

presence and then we place the presents

underneath the Christmas tree and we

wait and we wait until we get to

christmas eve and christmas eve the

children and the adults sometimes we'll

put out a Christmas stocking or a

pillowcase now a Christmas stocking is

just a huge stock and it's basically

there to fill with trinkets lots of

lovely little goodies like oranges

chocolates stationary I don't know

little bit of jewelry or just little not

so expensive gifts for the children to

have first thing in the morning because

they're so excited they wake up at like

five in the morning running down to see

if Santa Claus

whoo-hoo and his reindeer Rudolph the

red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny

have arrived to come down the chimney

I don't know why he doesn't just use the

front door and place lots of gifts and

drink it under the tree and something in

the stocking so then Christmas morning

arrives and that's when we all do our

present opening normally they'll be a

different tradition in each House as to

what they have for breakfast or who they

see for Christmas morning but then the

big event on christmas day is Christmas

dinner

this is usually a roast and you'll have

all the trimmings which means all the

extra bits and bobs like stuffing and

pigs in blankets and roast potatoes

cranberry source is just incredibly

delicious food apart from Brussels

sprouts Brussels sprouts you either love

them or you hate them I hate them but

they're very good for you

so then you gorge on Christmas dinner

and after christmas then you'll have

Christmas pudding which sometimes people

set fire to the Christmas pudding

there'll be lots of alcohol usually

involved in Christmas lots of wine

champagne secures then after Christmas

to everyone just kind of Lies out in

front of the television and we'll watch

some incredible television some old

movies that been playing again and again

and again every year but everybody loves

and it's just about spending time

together now it does depend on how good

or bad you've been each year as to

whether you get presence because Santa

Claus has a list of all the people who

are nice and all the people who are

naughty and if you're naughty

you won't get a gift so I'm just going

to let you know that I've been very nice

this year

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season whether you celebrate Christmas

or not have a wonderful time

lots of love i see you in the next video

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