Top 10 Christmas Movies to Learn English

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Hey everyone! In today's lesson we are counting  down my Top 10 Christmas Movies of All Time!  
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Now, I absolutely love Christmas, I love the  decorations, the traditions, spending time  
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with family and especially the movies. So I'm  very excited to share these ones with you today,  
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Okay, so the first one is a comedy of course, a  little bit of action in it as well, because it  
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stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, and it's Jingle All  The Way. In this movie he is up against another  
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father played by Simbad and they are going around  different shops on Christmas Eve to try and find  
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this action figure toy for their sons. So this is a really funny one and you  
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can travel around the whole city with  them trying to find this toy and being  
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up against each other as well, along the way. Okay so Number 9 on my list isn't your typical  
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Christmas movie, but it is classed as a Christmas  movie by many because it's set during Christmas  
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and during an office Christmas party, and this is  the classic movie Die Hard. So this movie stars  
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Bruce Willis as the police officer John McClane  and also Alan Rickman, who is the villain Hans  
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Gruber and is absolutely excellent in it. So what  happens here is during an office Christmas party  
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some terrorists come and hijack the building. And  John McClane is there by chance and they don't  
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actually know he's there to begin with, and I  don't want to give anything away but it is just a  
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great movie and because it's set during this time  it is a great one to watch at Ahristmas as well.  
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And there are some really funny quotes by John  McClane as well, that have become very famous. 
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So Number 8 on my list is quite a recent one  because it was only released last Christmas  
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in 2019, and that is the name of this film Last  Christmas. It's based on the Wham! song, which was  
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written by George Michael and it does have music  by George Michael and Wham! throughout the movie  
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as well. That was one of the concepts of it, so it  has a great soundtrack and it stars Emilia Clarke  
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as an aspiring singer who works as an elf in a  Christmas shop in Covent Garden, in Central London  
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that is open all year round. So it's definitely  one of the most recent but it makes my Top 10  
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list. I highly recommend you watch it, and if  you enjoy learning English with music and songs  
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then I highly recommend you check out this lesson  where you can learn 41 words with Christmas  
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songs. So you can click up here or down in the  description box below to watch that lesson next. 
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So the next movie on my list is a classic  one again, and it has a great cast.  
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It stars Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law  and Jack Black. So in this movie Kate Winslet  
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and Cameron Diaz's characters decide to  house swap for the Christmas holidays,  
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so that they can each escape  their lives in England and L.A. 
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And it follows their relationships  and just their experience in living  
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in a completely different country and in very  different lives actually because their lives  
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are completely different, so that makes this  film even more interesting. It's also great for  
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English language learners because there is a  range of accents that you will hear, so you  
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have the British accent and the American accent,  so it's great to be exposed to these two as well. 
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Okay so the next one on my list is a classic  and it is quite an old one as well it's from  
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the late 80's, and this is National Lampoon's  Christmas Vacation. So this movie follows the  
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Griswold family. They do have other movies as well  and they made this one especially for Christmas.  
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Now what makes this movie so funny is that this  family is absolutely calamitous, meaning that  
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they are very clumsy and lots of disastrous things  happen in a very funny way during their Christmas  
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holiday, where their family comes to visit. You might even recognize some of the actors  
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because the sun in the film actually is Leonard  from The Big Bang Theory, so he was very young  
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in this movie and also the daughter is Juliette  Lewis, who went on to have a really successful  
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acting career as well. Now I grew up watching  this movie and what I love about it is that it  
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has more of a slapstick comedy, which is a very  American type of comedy, as opposed to the British  
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which is a little bit more dry and not as obvious.  So this one will definitely make you laugh a lot  
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with the very obvious comedy and all the  disasters that happen to this family. 
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Now next on my list is Serendipity, but first of  all let's find out what this beautiful word means.  
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So serendipity is the fact of finding interesting  or valuable things by chance and the adjective  
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form is serendipitous, and what this means is  being in the right place at the right time. For  
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example you could bump into a good friend at an  unusual location or you could find 20 pounds or  
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50 euros, or some sort of money on the floor as  you're walking down the street. So I think this  
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word is absolutely beautiful and it describes  the movie perfectly. It's set in New York City  
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where these two characters meet for the  first time when they are Christmas shopping,  
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and throughout the movie they have some more  serendipitous encounters with each other.  
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So the movie isn't set during Christmas the whole  time but we do see Christmas throughout it and  
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it's just beautiful to see New York City at  Christmas time, is just so beautiful and that's  
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another thing that I love about this movie.  is seeing this city during this time of year.
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The next movie is Miracle on 34th Street. Now  this was a remake so it was made many decades  
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ago and they remade it again in the 90's, and  it stars Mara Wilson, who you might recognize  
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as she was a very famous child actress and she  also played in Mrs. Doubtfire and also Matilda.  
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It also stars the late Lord Attenborough, Richard  Attenborough, who was an actor and filmmaker and  
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you might recognize him from Jurassic Park,  which was one of his most famous movies. 
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So this story follows a lawyer and a little  girl who must prove that a man who claims  
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to be Santa Claus is in fact telling  the truth and is in fact the real deal.  
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So what this film is all about is the spirit of  Christmas, making people believe again and just  
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feel that love, that connection and building  relationships. So I really love this one  
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and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend  you watch it during this festive season. 
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Okay so now i'm getting very excited because we  are rolling into my Top 3 movies, so they are my  
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absolute favorites and I can't wait to share  them with you. So the first one which is Number  
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3 on my list is Love Actually. So this movie  features an ensemble cast meaning that there  
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are many principal characters and we follow the  different stories that are linked in some way.  
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Once again, the cast is absolutely amazing! There  are some major stars in this movie and it's just  
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a feel-good comedy-romantic-Christmas movie and  what makes it so fun is that you get to see lots  
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of different relationships and lots of different  characters, but then also the way that they are  
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linked together in some way. It's also quite  British, so you're going to learn a lot about  
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British culture in this movie. It even stars the  Prime Minister, so Hugh Grant actually plays the  
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Prime Minister of the UK in this movie, and he  gets up to some mischief too. So it's definitely  
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worth watching for that. Not only this but it  is again set in London during Christmas time,  
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so you really get a feel for what it's  like in London during this time of year.  
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And for me this is absolutely one of  the best Christmas movies ever made.
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So now moving on to one of my favorite British  movies of all time to one of my favorite American  
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ones, and this had to be in my Top 2. It is  Elf. So Elf stars Will Ferrell as a man who  
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is raised as an elf in the North Pole, but then  discovers that he's actually not really an elf.  
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So what he does is he sets off on an adventure to  New York City to find his real dad. There are so  
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many great moments in this movie, it's absolutely  hilarious because you are watching a grown man  
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who hasn't been raised in the real world, instead  he's been raised as an elf in the North Pole  
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there's lots of things in a city that's as  tough as New York City, that he doesn't know,  
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he's never encountered before, so it's just  hilarious to see the way that he sees the world  
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and the way that he sees this city. Another great  thing about this is that he's just so happy in it  
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and makes the most of everything and again there  are some classic moments, some classic scenes and  
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even some classic sayings, that we all say during  the Christmas period, that is synonymous with Elf. 
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Now before I reveal which movie is Number  1 on my list there are quite a few more  
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Christmas movies that I think are amazing,  that didn't quite make it into my Top 10.  
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It was a really difficult decision and I went  back and forth, changing it round a few times  
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but I do think that these Christmas movies  deserve mention, so have a little look here  
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maybe one of your favorites is here or you'll  get some ideas of movies to watch as well.
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So without a doubt Number 1 on my list is Home  Alone. So the first one for sure is the best,  
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but I also highly recommend that you watch Home  Alone 2: Lost in New York, because it's just as  
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magical. Now I think that no matter your age  you've probably grown up watching this movie,  
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but if you haven't don't despair, don't worry you  can start right now with this Christmas. If you  
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haven't seen it you have to watch it! The first  movie was released 30 years ago. That's right it  
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was released in 1990, but this is one that stands  the test of time. It doesn't matter what year it  
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gets to this is always going to remain the best  Christmas movie of all time and the best classic.  
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So as the title suggests Macaulay Culkin  character Kevin McAllister gets left at  
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home alone during the Christmas period, when  his family traveled to Paris for the holidays.  
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But what happens is there are two pesky robbers  around the neighborhood looking for all the empty  
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houses to rob and so you get to see this adventure  through Kevin McAllister's eyes and how he deals  
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with this problem. Again there are some very  famous scenes during the whole film and I think  
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the soundtrack is just wonderful as well, it has  that very christmassy feel to it, you'll hear  
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a lot of typical Christmas songs as well, famous  Christmas hits. And in the second installment Home  
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Alone 2: Lost in New York, the McAllister this  time are traveling to Miami for the Christmas  
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holiday and somehow Kevin boards a flight to New  York City instead, so he is lost in New York City. 
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So there you have it: my Top 10 Christmas Movies  of All Time! I hope that if you haven't watched  
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them all, you now have a great list that you  can start watching over the next couple of weeks  
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during the festive period, and if I missed any  of your favorites please let me know down in the  
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comments below, and share some other ones that  you think are fantastic. But in the meantime,  
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if you're celebrating during this period, I'd  love to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.
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