Merry Christmas Conversational English Phrases Lesson

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

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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!