Free English Class! Topic: Celebrations! 🎉🥳🎊 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about
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celebrations. Life has moments where we like to celebrate
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things. Sometimes there's a special day just for you.
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Sometimes you go to a celebration for someone else. A
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celebration is anytime we have a party. Sometimes we give
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gifts to kind of mark a special occasion in someone's life. And
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I'll talk about all of the different celebrations that I
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have created slides for in just a bit in this English lesson.
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But celebrations are certainly very very enjoyable and very
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fun. You look forward to celebrations. You remember them
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fondly as well. They are just moments in your life where you
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are happy about an accomplishment or an
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achievement. So welcome once again to this English lesson
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about celebrations. Here we go. So today is Friday and it's
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actually a small celebration for a lot of people. Most
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people work from Monday to Friday and then they have the
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weekends off. I don't work on Saturday and Sunday. So Friday
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is a little day in the week. Uh a day where you can have a
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little celebration. Often times at work people will say it's
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Friday and then they'll smile. We all love our jobs or most of
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us do. But it is fun to feel the accomplishment of almost
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being done the week. Friday always feels like a day to
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celebrate a little bit. A small celebrations because the week
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is almost over and it's almost time to relax or just do
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something else for a couple of days. So what's the first thing
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I would celebrate? Um today I think I'm celebrating the fact
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that it's it's finally Friday it says in the slide. It's
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Friday. People sometimes also celebrate when they have a day
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off. This is definitely something to celebrate as well.
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Um I actually have a day off coming up because Canadian
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Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks. Two and a half weeks.
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About. And so I will have a day off. And so I will celebrate
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that. Not only will it be a Friday the weekend before but
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it will be a holiday on the Monday as well. So I will
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certainly be happy and celebrate. Um I thought this
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couple was very cute. They're just sitting and chatting and
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having a cup of tea or coffee. Um I can see Jen and I doing
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something like that on my day off. Just sitting for a bit and
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chatting and enjoying the fact that I don't have to go to work
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that day. So a day off is certainly something to
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celebrate. And people usually celebrate a holiday. Um my
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sister just went on a vacation. She was on holidays a few weeks
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ago. And she was quite excited. And the last day that she
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worked she was celebrating the fact that she was going on a
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holiday. So she was pretty I was going to say she was pretty
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pumped. I don't know if you've heard that word before. In
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English when you say someone is pumped to do something it means
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they're very excited about it. So a little bit of slang just
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slipped out there. She was very pumped and I think they had a
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very enjoyable time when they had a holiday. Certainly
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something to celebrate. Um but let's get into some more
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traditional celebrations. Um and one of the first ones that
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comes to mind is something called a milestone. A milestone
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is a time in life when you have accomplished something that's
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very very awesome. That's something that people respect.
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One of them might be having a number of years of service
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working somewhere. Maybe you've worked somewhere for five years
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or 10 years or 15 years or 20. We would say that that's a
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milestone. Every time you hit one of those marker points. Um
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I have taught for almost 25 years when I have taught for 25
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years that will be a cool milestone in my life. And I
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will celebrate that milestone. It will be something that I
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think about and something that I am happy about. I don't think
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there will be a party when you have a milestone. You don't
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usually celebrate with a party. But certainly milestones for me
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as well would be when I passed my B one French test that was a
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milestone. And when I passed my B two French test that was a
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milestone as well. So something to celebrate. Definitely the
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most traditional celebration would be a birthday. When it is
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your birthday you are celebrating the day you were
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born. Usually in Canada you'll have a birthday cake and it
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will have the same number of candles as your aid For me in
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my early fifties I don't put that many candles on. Sometimes
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we put one candle for every 10 years. And then a few extra for
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the little years after that. But certainly when it is your
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birthday it is a celebration. And probably the most common
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type. Um you have a party usually or you at least invite
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some people over. Um I didn't have a party for my birthday
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this year. My sister and I were born in the same month. My
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older sister and I and we usually have a party together
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and this year we just decided not to. Usually we have a small
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party but I wasn't feeling wasn't in the party mood this
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year but I did turn fifty-one. I'm getting old. Uh something
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else to celebrate would be an engagement. An engagement is
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when someone asks someone else to marry them. Usually they get
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down on one knee and they usually have a ring. They have
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an engagement And they usually will go on a date and then the
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person will propose to the other person and the
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celebration is just with the couple but after if the girl
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says yes afterwards they will tell everyone else and everyone
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will celebrate with them. You might have a small engagement
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party but usually it's just a lot of people saying
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congratulations. Whenever someone's is celebrating the
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fact that they are now engaged people will usually say
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congratulations to them and by the way when you're engaged it
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means you're planning to get married either in a few months
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or in a year or sometimes two years, but usually in Canada if
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someone gets engaged they usually get married the next
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summer or within a year or two is about the normal amount of
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time. Uh the bride might have a bridal shower. So shower is
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another name for a type of party. A bridal shower is when
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the bride before her wedding will go and all kinds of other
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women will come and give her gifts. So a bridal shower is a
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cool event for the bride. A cool celebration. Everyone is
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celebrating the fact that she is getting married. And one of
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the things they do is they have a party called a shower and
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they give her gifts. And then of course the actual day is a
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huge celebration. When you have your wedding it's a day when
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you go and you get married Sometimes it's hard to know the
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difference between the word marriage and wedding. But
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wedding is the word we use for the celebrations. The day when
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you actually get married. When you promise to spend your life
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with the other person. You invite a lot of guests, family
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and friends. Uh and on your wedding day you exchange vows.
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You exchange rings. And you are then married. Your marriage
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begins on your wedding day. That would be a good way to
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remember it. But certainly a huge Celebration any wedding I
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have been to has been has been a huge celebration for sure and
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then every year after your wedding you get to celebrate
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your anniversary so Jen and I have been married for over 20
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years, so we can celebrate our anniversary every year and keep
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counting the years it has been a very very enjoyable marriage
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I hope Jen's watching it has been awesome but an anniversary
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is just A day to celebrate and remember sometimes you look at
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pictures from your wedding day. Sometimes Jen and I will go out
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on a date. Even though we're already married we can still go
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out on a date. We'll go out to eat. And we'll just enjoy each
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other's company for the day. So an anniversary in other
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languages sometimes versions of anniversary are used to meant
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to mean birthday. But in English an anniversary is
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referring to the day you got married celebrating that every
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year.
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Graduation so in Canada students graduate from grade
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eight they graduate from grade 12 and then they graduate from
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college or university after two or four years or even more. A
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graduation is a celebration of the fact that you have finished
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part of your schooling. When you are 13 years old in Canada
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12 or 13 you have a graduation from grade eight. You have been
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in school for 9 years. From kindergarten grade one grade 2
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all the way up to grade eight. By the way if you are in
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America you would call it the eighth grade. In Canada we call
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it grade eight. We're a little bit different. Um and then
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students will go to high school and then they'll graduate from
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grade twelve. They'll have a graduation. A celebration
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recognizing the fact that they have finished four years of
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high school. So lots of fun celebrations when you're a kid
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as well. A retirement party. So when you have a job Eventually
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you get old and you retire. And many times when you retire the
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place where you work will have a retirement party for you.
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There was a teacher at my school who retired last year
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and we had a retirement party for him. We were very happy
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because we were allowed to have a retirement party. There was a
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teacher two years ago that retired and because of COVID we
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couldn't have a retirement party for him. So he came to
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last year's retirement party for the other teacher and we
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kind of celebrated both of them at the same time. But a
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retirement party is a celebration for someone who is
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retiring. So you have cake. Um you do sometimes wear silly
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hats and sometimes it does say happy retirement on the wall.
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Um but it's just a party where someone who has worked for a
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very long time is retiring and you get together to celebrate
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it. So retirement parties are a lot of fun by the way. If you
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have recently moved into a new house or a new apartment you
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might have a housewarming party when you buy a new house or
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start renting a new house or when you start renting an
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apartment or maybe you've bought a condo you might have a
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housewarming party where everyone can celebrate the fact
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that you have a new place to live. A housewarming party you
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usually bring a housewarming gift. Probably the most common
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one is a plant or something to hang on the wall like a a piece
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of art. Uh I haven't been to a housewarming party in a long
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time. But usually there's food and people bring housewarming
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gifts. But certainly something to celebrate. Especially if
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someone Sometimes in Canada people will rent an apartment
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and then eventually they'll buy a house and then they'll be
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excited because they own their own house and they'll have a
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little housewarming party. Lots of fun. Our kids sometimes went
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to something called a pool party. This is not a specific
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celebration but it is a very common party for kids to go to
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when they're younger. Like between age I don't know six
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and fourteen or something like that. Um a pool party is just a
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party that a kid has. If they happen to have a pool in their
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backyard they might have a pool party during the summer. I have
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driven my kids to a couple of different pool parties as time
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went by each summer. Usually two times a summer I would take
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someone to a pool party. Sometimes people will have a
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birthday party and in the invitation it will say bring
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your bathing suit because it's also a pool party. So a pool
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party is just a party where people go swimming in a pool.
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Nothing super special about it. You might have a celebration
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event in terms of fundraising. Um you might have a fundraising
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sale. You might have a fundraising bake sale. You
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might go to a fundraising dinner. Jen and I sometimes are
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invited to fundraising dinners. A fundraising dinner is when an
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organization that does good in the world needs money and so
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they have a celebration and they celebrate the work they've
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done and then they ask you for more money. Um but a simple
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version of a celebration would be fundraising by selling baked
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goods, cookies, or other things. So let's talk about
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receptions. So in English the word reception has a few
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different meanings. One meaning of reception means a party
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usually a formal party after a wedding or even after a
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graduation or some other formal celebrations. I've been to a
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reception after a graduation. I've been to many receptions
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after a wedding. So a reception is simply a more formal party.
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By formal I mean people are usually dressed up. Men are
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usually wearing ties and women are usually wearing dresses.
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Not always but that's usually that's still a very common way
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to dress up. Um and definitely it's after some kind of
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important celebration like a wedding or a graduation.
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Definitely after a wedding in Canada you'll end up going to a
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reception. And we would just call it a wedding reception. We
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would add the word wedding to it. Um I have never been to one
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of these. But there's a celebration called an after
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party apparently. Uh an after party is a party that people go
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to when the main party is done. You'll hear about this often
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after some award shows. Sometimes there are a lot of
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after parties. So it's a party that takes place after another
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celebration or after another party like I just said. Um I
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it's not that I haven't been invited to after parties. It's
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just that I I don't like staying out late. So if I go to
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a celebration. And someone is having an after party at one or
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two in the morning. I I go home and I go to bed. So but an
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after party is a party that takes place after a different
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celebrate or after a celebration or after another
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party. Some people go to a party and then they go to an
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after party. Not Bob the Canadian. Bob the Canadian goes
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goes home and goes to bed. I have been to block parties or
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street parties though. So a block party our cities and
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towns are usually divided into blocks. So you have city blocks
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every square of the city is a block. And sometimes the city
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or town will decide to close the street. And to have a
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party. A town near us is celebrating 100 years of being
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a town. And they are going to close the street and have a
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street party. When you close a street it means cars can't
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drive down that street. They'll put roadblocks at each end. And
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then everyone can just walk on the street. So they're going to
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have a street party. People will just go. The street is a
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beautiful place to have a drink. Do some dancing. Talk to
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friends. Listen to some music. It will be a really really fun
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event. So a block party or street party is when a town or
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city closes the street. So that they can have a party to
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celebrate some kind of special event. So noone has ever thrown
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one of these for me. A surprise party is a party that other
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people plan for you and they don't tell you about it. And
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then when you walk in everyone yells surprise. Um I oh wait. I
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I did go to one I did have a there was a surprise party in
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my life. When Jen and I were expecting our first kid when
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Jen was pregnant the people from work so a work a colleague
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Jen was friends with invited us to go out to eat with her and
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her husband. And when we got there there were like 20 people
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from my work and they had a little surprise party for us.
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Where they gave us gifts for the new baby. So yes I my
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mistake. Generally those surprise parties are for
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birthdays. And usually it's when someone comes home from
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work they open the door and their apartment is dark and
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when they turn the light on there's like 25 people there
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all yell surprise and it is a surprise party. Sounds fun. I
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should plan one someday. For Jen maybe a surprise party. I
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have been to costume parties when I was in university. I
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went to a couple costume parties. Um sometimes little
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kids will go to a costume party. A costume party is a
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party where you dress up. They're very common around
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Halloween. Halloween is at the end of October. It's when kids
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go trick or treating and when kids wear costumes. Um but even
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adults sometimes have costume parties where everyone is told
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to dress up in some way. I imagine these two guys are
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either waiting for the bus or they're on their way to a
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costume party. Um but I have not been to a costume party for
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probably 25 years or more. Um sometimes parents dress up and
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go to costume parties at Halloween as well. Um sometimes
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their kids will have a costume party and the parents will also
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dress up. But I have not done anything like that for a while.
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I'm pretty boring actually if if I do think about my old
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life. But maybe this year should be the year where I
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dress up and go to a costume party. We'll see. This is more
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my style. In English when you say something is more your
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style it means it's something you like to do. I really enjoy
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hosting a bonfire or campfire. Uh or going to a bonfire or
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campfire. I was sad because last weekend a friend of mine
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was going to have a bonfire and he invited people over but I
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actually couldn't go. I was busy that night. But this is
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something I really enjoy either hosting. Meaning I have a fire
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at my house and invite people over or I like going to which
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means if someone else has a bonfire and the difference
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between bonfire and campfire. A bonfire is just bigger. I
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usually have a campfire like oh we're going to have a little
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campfire come on over. Um bring your launch here. It's a very
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very enjoyable time. Some of you in my videos have seen
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where we have a fire pit. And that's where we usually have
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our our little campfires if we invite people over. Lots of
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fun. Very enjoyable time. A birth. So we talked about
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birthday but there's also a time to celebrate when a young
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couple has a new baby. So you celebrate the birth. It's kind
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of the kid's first birthday isn't it? But certainly when a
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young couple has a new baby. You celebrate the fact that
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they have given birth. That they have a new child. So a
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birth is certainly something fun to celebrate also a time to
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give gifts as well. And just I just know with the birth of
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each of our children Jen's parents would come down and my
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mom would come down within a day or two to congratulate us
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and to celebrate the fact that we had had a baby. Lots of fun.
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And before you have a baby you will often have a baby shower.
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Uh and sometimes after you have a baby you'll have a baby
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shower. And so you'll see again you'll see again the word
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shower. Um to mean a party. So we had bridal shower earlier.
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Um but yeah Usually a baby shower happens in advance. Um I
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know Jen went to a baby shower a couple months ago for a
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relative. Um and it was I think four weeks before the baby was
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due. When you're expecting you have a due date. And then
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usually you'll have a baby shower at some point. Um
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usually before but sometimes after. I mean it's always fun
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to celebrate a new baby and and to get gifts right? So lots of
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fun. Uh sometimes you have a going away party. Sometimes
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maybe one of your kids is going off to university. Uh maybe a
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neighbour is moving away to another country or province. So
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you might have a little party to celebrate the fact that
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they're leaving. It sounds kind of funny. You're not happy that
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they're leaving. But it is fun to get together and to have a
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little going away party. Um probably the most common type
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is when if one of your is leaving for university. You
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might have a little going away party. Have a have a nice
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supper. Um no gifts really but just maybe some cake for a
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going away party. And then of course the opposite would be a
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welcome home party. Sometimes people come home from far away.
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Maybe one of your kids is at university. When they come home
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you might have a welcome home party. Maybe someone was
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serving in the military and they were far away. Maybe they
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were deployed and when they come back the family might Have
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a welcome home party to welcome them back. I went to a welcome
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home party for a teacher who taught in a different country
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for two years. And when they came back we had a little
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welcome home party for them. Lots of fun. So yeah you can
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have a going away party and then a year or two later you
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can have a welcome home party. A family reunion. So family
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reunions are celebrations that families have where someone
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will invite all of the brothers and sisters and uncles and
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aunts and cousins and grandparents all to one place
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and they will just celebrate the fact that they're a family.
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So a family reunion is just a big party with all of the
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family and extended family. When we use the term extended
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family in English when I talk about my family I talk about
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Jen my kids and my brothers and sisters and my mom. That's my
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family. When I talk about my extended family I mean my
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uncles and aunts and cousins. That's my extended family. So a
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family reunion is when you invite your family and your
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extended family and you in Canada it's often at a park or
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at someone's house with a really big backyard it's
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usually in the summer and it's usually outside and people will
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barbecue and play outdoor games. Usually a family reunion
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is lots of fun. Uh let me get to the next slide in a sec
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here. I just gotta make a small change. There we go. Mother's
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Day. So I mentioned Mother's Day and Father's Day. Mother's
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Day is a day where we celebrate all of the work that our moms
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have done to raise us. Father's Day is similar. We celebrate
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the fathers in the world. So Mother's Day is usually a day
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where we will go to either Jen's mom's house or my mom's
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house. We kind of alternate year to year. And we will have
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some cake and we will celebrate the fact that it is Mother's
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Day. Um usually we will send a card. We will usually give a
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gift. Sometimes on Mother's Day we will give my mom flowers if
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we have some. It's a little early in the year for us to
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give flowers. Sometimes we'll buy an outdoor potted plant or
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something nice for my mom. Uh Father's Day is the same. Uh
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because my father passed away. I will sometimes visit the
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cemetery. And I'll just go and visit the grave site where my
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father is buried. Um and we will definitely go to Jen's
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parents' house and celebrate Father's Day with her dad. So
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Mother's Day a day where we celebrate mothers and Father's
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Day a day where we celebrate fathers. And then Teacher's
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Day. So just a month ago someone said happy Teacher's
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Day to me. Most of you know that I find Teachers Day to be
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since I've started YouTube. It has been a very fun day to
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celebrate for me. Because it happens almost every month.
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Quite regularly someone will say in the comments of a video.
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Happy Teachers' Day. It's Teachers Day here in Bolivia.
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Or happy Teacher's Day. It's Teachers Day here in Indonesia.
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And so there seems to be different days around the world
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that are considered teachers days. Uh and because I teach
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everyone around the world I'm quite often congratulated like
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congratulations. Happy Teachers' Day Bob the Canadian.
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Thank you for everything you do. So I appreciate that. It's
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kind of fun to teach people around the world because I get
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thanked a lot on all of the different teachers days. I
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think there's another one coming up in October if I'm not
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mistaken. Uh we'll see. I don't actually know when the Canadian
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one is. Uh New Year's Eve someone mentioned this earlier.
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Uh New Year's Eve happens on December 31st. When the clock
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strikes midnight we all yell happy New Years. Um and we give
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each other's hug each other hugs. Generally though the New
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Year's Eve party happens mostly the year before. Does that make
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sense? Mostly it's December 31st when you're celebrating
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New Year's Eve. And then you say happy New Years you maybe
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stay up for another hour and then if you're old like me you
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go to bed. But New Year's Eve is a fun Celebrations. A day
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where we celebrate the new year and we look forward to all the
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new things we're going to do. This is another one where it's
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different in different parts of the world. Often my
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international students will be celebrating Chinese New Year a
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few weeks after our new year's so it's fun because they are
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they have a nice fun day a bit later than us as well but New
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Year's Eve celebrating the New Year always a fun celebration.
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We have a lot of different kinds of festivals. Especially
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in the fall. There are a lot of festivals in Ontario Canada. A
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festival is anytime a town or some place has a big party
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celebrating one thing. We have food festivals. A food festival
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is a place where you can go and there's all different kinds of
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food to eat. Um we have something we have a lot of
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music festivals where you can go for a weekend and you can
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listen to all different kinds of music. But a festival isn't
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it's celebrating a specific thing. So it's a festival
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because people like food. It's a festival because people like
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music. Um and so they'll get together and they will
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celebrate that thing and you can go and enjoy yourself as
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well. A parade. So we really like going to a parade every
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year at Christmas. There are a lot of different kinds of
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parades in the world. Um when we go to a parade it's usually
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quite cold. It's usually the end of November or beginning of
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December. And it's a parade about Christmas. In the parade
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there will be marching bands. These guys aren't playing
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instruments. I think the marching band is behind the
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flag bears. Uh there's usually different floats. A float is
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some in a parade who drives by. So they decorate their vehicle
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or they pull a trailer that's all decorated. You would call
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that a float. In Canada if you go to a Christmas parade the
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very last float in the parade usually has Santa Claus on it.
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You might celebrate a championship. It might be the
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Super Bowl. It might be World the World Cup. It might be the
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Stanley Cup if you watch hockey. Um when the team you
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like wins a championship it's a time to celebrate. Um if you
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live in Toronto and if the Toronto Raptors won the NBA
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Championship again there would be a parade a week later and
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people would celebrate the fact that the team won the
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championship. Um I'm sure if you Live close to a city where
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a football or soccer or baseball or hockey team has won
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the championship. There is a large celebration about a week
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afterwards. Hey we mentioned Valentine's Day earlier.
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Valentine's Day is a day for couples where they buy each
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other gifts. The most common gifts on Valentine's Day would
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be red roses, chocolate, jewelry, those would be very
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very common. It's a day to celebrate love. Um so it's a
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day where you'll probably go on a date if you're in a
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relationship and you will just celebrate the fact that you
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enjoy each other's company so much. Um that you want to
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celebrate it. Fun day. Uh then lastly there is usually a
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celebration for your country at some point. In Canada it's
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called Canada Day. It's on July 1st. Every year on July 1st we
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celebrate the fact that Canada is a country. Usually there's
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fireworks. I actually posted a photo this year because Jen and
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I and the kids we went to see live music. Uh and we saw
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fireworks after the concert. So on Canada Day we celebrate the
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fact that Canada became a country. It's kind of like
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Canada's birthday. And I'm sure in every country in the world
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there is a day where you celebrate your country. Um and
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that would be probably similar to what I experienced. There's
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probably fireworks in every town and everyone is really
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happy to celebrate the fact that your country is a country.
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