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  • Hi, Bob the Canadian here!

  • I thought it would be fun for you guys to learn a little bit more about Christmas, but

  • to learn it from other people.

  • So I made this sign, it says, “Hi!

  • I make Youtube videos to help people learn English.

  • I'm making one about Christmas!

  • Would you like to be in it?”

  • And I went down to the local grocery store and I stood outside for a few hours and I

  • just asked other Canadians what they liked about Christmas.

  • So in this video you'll learn some English from me, and you'll learn some English from

  • some other Canadians at the same time.

  • I hope you enjoy it!

  • Hey thanks so much for watching this video if this is your first time here don't forget

  • to click the subscribe button below and the bell notification icon, and don't forget

  • to give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it's helping you learn English.

  • So like I said we're going to hear from a bunch of different Canadians telling you

  • why they like Christmas.

  • I hope you can understand someone speaking English who's not me.

  • Let's get started.

  • So I'm here today with...

  • Alanna.

  • Alanna, and Alanna what is one of your favourite things about Christmas?

  • Of course getting together with family, with family awesome, and do you have any unique

  • Christmas tradition?

  • Our Christmas tradition as a family is on Christmas Eve we always watch, “Home Alone

  • andHome Alone 2”.

  • So you watch a movie together, that's awesome.

  • Thank you very much can you say, “Merry Christmas

  • Merry Christmas everyone!

  • Thank you again.

  • Hey, I'm here withJohn

  • John, and John I'm just going to ask you a couple of questions.

  • What do you like about Christmas?

  • The best part about Christmas is getting together with your family.

  • Ah yes.

  • It's not about the presents, it's about everybody being together.

  • It's having a happy day.

  • Yeah, having a happy day.

  • Second question, does your family do anything fun, is there a tradition that you guys do

  • for Christmas that's unique or just….

  • Nah, everybody usually comes to our house.

  • My parents come down, in-laws come down, everybody comes to our house

  • Yepmake sure everybody's well fed.

  • Big meal?

  • All the fixins' Always all the fixin's.

  • Very cool.

  • Well thank you very much.

  • Have a great day. No problem. Thank you.

  • Have a Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas!

  • Hey I'm here withCarol. And she is going to answer a couple questions about Christmas.

  • What do you like about Christmas?

  • I love the lights, the twinkling lights, ah yes for sure, yes, and I just love that everyone

  • is just usually so joyful, they are yes, and second question, does your family have any

  • unique Christmas traditions?

  • 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:06,760 Well we celebrate the birth of Christ, so we often go to a Christmas Eve program, yep, we have a program at our church, is that like a Christmas concert?

  • Yeah, we do a Christmas concert and, yeah, just the kids love to get together and sleep

  • all together in the same room, for sure, right on the floor, yeah, and just things like that.

  • Christmas Eve type stuff.

  • Family. Very much family. Yeah.

  • Awesome.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Hey I'm here today withCarla.

  • Carla, Hi Carla.

  • Could you tell us what do you like about Christmas?

  • I like being with family and celebrating and opening presents.

  • Oh presents, yeah, we didn't have anyone say that one yet, so family and presents and

  • is there a Christmas tradition that you guys celebrate?

  • That you could tell us about?

  • We make gingerbread cookies, oh gingerbread cookies, that's awesome.

  • Well thank you so much, can you say, “Merry Christmas” “Merry ChristmasThank you,

  • have a great day!

  • Ok, so I'm here again with

  • James.

  • James.

  • Or Pastor James.

  • James what's your favourite thing about Christmas.

  • Christmas is family.

  • Enjoying family time.

  • Ah yes, and anything else?

  • Yeah, well for us Christmas time is when we get together have Pepsi and cake.

  • That's it.

  • Very fun.

  • And do you have any unique Christmas traditions?

  • Ah, unique Christmas tradition?

  • Nope.

  • Just get together with family.

  • So lots of time with family.

  • Family and friends.

  • Awesome.

  • Could you say, “Merry Christmasto everyone. Merry Christmas to you and may you know the reason

  • for the season which is Jesus Christ.

  • Awesome. Thank you very much. Have a good day.

  • So I'm here with

  • Julia.

  • Julia and Julia what do you like about Christmas.

  • I like that we get to get to get together with our families, yes, and sing songs all

  • together and everything.

  • Cool.

  • And do you have any unique Christmas traditions.

  • Every Sunday, like twice, two weeks before Christmas we'll get together and sing German

  • Christmas songs and English Christmas songs, as advent.

  • Awesome, very very cool.

  • Can you say Merry Christmas to everyone that's watching?

  • Merry Christmas!

  • Thank you very much.

  • So I'm here with

  • I'm Cassandra.

  • Cassandra, and Cassandra what do you like about Christmas?

  • Well one thing I like about Christmas is that all of our family, extended family, gets together.

  • This year we're actually hosting Christmas for the first time.

  • Oh fun.

  • We're expecting 35 to 40 people.

  • That's a lot of people.

  • All from one side of the family.

  • Oh man!

  • Yes.

  • And do you have a favourite Christmas tradition?

  • Well, I guess our Christmas tradition is that we would get up in the morning and would make

  • cinnamon rolls.

  • Oh fun.

  • So we'd all open up presents together and then eat cinnamon rolls.

  • Oh that must smell nice and taste nice.

  • Yes!

  • Well thank you very much, can you just say, “Merry Christmasto everyone who's

  • watching.

  • Merry Christmas!

  • And thanks again. You're welcome.

  • Hey, so I'm here withBill.

  • And what do you like about this time of year?

  • Oh, we celebrate the winter solstice.

  • Oh yes, cool.

  • The rebirth of the sun. Yeah.

  • So it's like, a style of pagan new year.

  • And Festival of Yule.

  • Oh very cool.

  • And spending it with all our family, friends, and a big feast.

  • Oh yeah, and what, do you have any kind of special food when you eat?

  • Ham.

  • Ham.

  • Very cool, very cool.

  • And can you just say hi to everyone who's watching.

  • Hello everybody!

  • Thank you very much. Thank you.

  • That was awesome man, thanks.

  • Hey I'm here withRichard.

  • Richard, and Richard what do you like about Christmas?

  • I like Christmas just for the food, and the family, and the time off from work.

  • Awesome. And do you have a Christmas tradition?

  • So every year at Christmas we usually, we get these oven mitts and we get a game gift,

  • and we have to wrap it in all this tape and you have to get through the layers, With the

  • oven mitts? with the oven mitts on.

  • So it's usually about the whole family and everyone's got to put an oven mitt on, you gotta

  • try and try and pass it.

  • You get five seconds and you got to pass it you got to pass it, and eventually you get

  • to a prize.

  • Eventually you get to a prize and then at the end of it everyone has a game gift that

  • they brought and then you can choose who gets to open the first gift and then you get to

  • trade it off for other gifts.

  • Very very cool.

  • And then lastly can you just a say Merry Christmas to everyone who's watching.

  • Merry Christmas to everybody who's watching and have a Happy New Year!

  • Thank you very much.

  • No problem. Thank you.

  • See you. Take care.

  • So I'm here with

  • Chad.

  • Chad, and Chad what do you like about Christmas?

  • My favourite part of Christmas is spending time with my friends and family.

  • Oh yes, and do you have a Christmas tradition?

  • Something that's unique?

  • Not really.

  • I just, I enjoy making gifts for people, so I usually spend quite a bit of my December

  • month making gifts for people.

  • That's really really cool.