Let's Learn English Words and Phrases About Christmas | English Video with Subtitles

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