Holidays #1 - Christmas Eve & Day - Intermediate and Advanced English Vocabulary Podcast
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2023
- 🎄 Christmas Celebrations: UK vs USA - Advanced English Podcast Episode
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🎧 Welcome to our special Christmas episode of the Advanced English Podcast! 🌟 Hosted by Mark Teacher from the UK and Kat Teacher from the USA, this festive episode dives into the heartwarming traditions of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in both countries.
🇺🇸 Kat shares her American Christmas experiences, full of excitement and family traditions. Listen as she describes the joy of stockings filled with 'stocking stuffers', the classic practice of leaving milk and cookies for Santa Claus, and the anticipation of opening that one special gift on Christmas Eve. Kat's family's unique tradition of dining out on Christmas Day after opening gifts adds a special twist to the American Christmas narrative.
🇬🇧 Mark brings in the British perspective, highlighting how Christmas Day in the UK is all about family, food, and relaxation. Discover the delight of a British Christmas morning, unwrapping presents around the tree and indulging in a sumptuous Christmas dinner complete with roast turkey and all the trimmings. Learn how Brits spend the afternoon vegging on the sofa, enjoying classic Christmas films and TV shows, embodying the spirit of togetherness and comfort.
📚 As always, our podcast isn't just about sharing stories; it's an educational journey too! Throughout the 30-minute show, Mark and Kat break down essential vocabulary and expressions, helping you understand and use them in your own English conversations. Whether you're learning English as a second language or looking to polish your advanced skills, this episode is packed with cultural insights and language learning opportunities.
🌟 Don't forget to subscribe for more episodes, and share your own Christmas traditions in the comments below! Happy holidays, and enjoy the episode! 🎅🎄
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Merry Christmas for you and all humankind including our wounded sad part of the world experiencing war occupation, and dictatorship. 👍❤😥
Merry Christmas and may we all take a moment of silence and reflection for those who can not celebrate 💔
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Thanks so much for your kind words! Yes we want to be here to support our listeners and share a little bit of culture, see you soon for our regular podcast later this week!
Merry Christmas to our teachers Thanks for this channel and to help us to improve our language i wish you a happy new year
Merry Christmas to you as well! Thank you for such kind words much, we're really glad you like our videos and want to study with us!
Oh yes and Happy New Year too!
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Merry christmas kat and Mark thank so much for your help !!!
You're very very welcome! Have a lovely Christmas and we hope to see you again in 2024!
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Thank you! We’ll have a new lesson for you this week ☺️
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Thank you so much we appreciate every like and comment! ☺️
Merry Christmas Kat and Mark. 🎄🎁🌟...
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Merry Christmas 🎉🎉🎉Kat and Mark
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Merry Christmas to you as well! Thank you so much for being here and watching us, we hope to see you in 2024!
Hi! Merry Christmas ❤Thank you so much for all your great vidioes
Merry Christmas thanks for joining us today ☺️
another great episode. thanks
We’re glad that you enjoyed it ☺️
Thanks and mrry christmas
Same to you! ☺️
Marry Christmas 🎉
Merry Christmas to you as well! Thanks for watching
Merry Christmas, and happy holiday
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you as well! 🌲🎄🎁
Marry Christmas🎉🎉 teacher
Merry Christmas to you too! Thanks for being here with us!
Merry Christmas, Kat and Mark!
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I had been looking for the channel which fulfills my desire to become a fluent English speaker as a second language.
Your channel is just right!!!!
Thank you for all of your great effort and wonderful lessons.
Furthermore, I’m looking forward to keeping to learn English with you guys in 2024!
Happy new year Mark and Kat!
From Hyejin in Korea
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment Hye Jin! We're really glad you like our videos :) We are definitely motivated to keep making videos well into 2024 and make some upgrades to make our videos even more helpful. Happy holidays and see you soon!
Merry Christmas ,Mark and Kat! I was like your videos ,it's very interesting ,you know the way of explanation is very interested ,but i want to master my English what do you advise me you both ? Thank you!!
Learning a language is a journey! Keep practicing, speaking out loud and repeating after us and step by step and week by week you’ll get better and better ☺️
Марк очень вкусно рассказывал про еду. Также про прощупывание носков было смешно послушать. Интересное было сравнение праздника послушать.
We're really glad you enjoyed the episode! Thanks for watching and studying with us :)
I’m in addiction of your videos actually I feel bad if I don’t watch it really thank you for my heart ❤
You’re so very kind! Thanks so much for your hard work, we’re happy that you’re here ☺️
Mary Christmas and happy new year. I've been listening to English podcast for almost 3 years and I can say that your channel is amazing. please keep going, Many thanks.
Wow - thank you so much for saying so! We're really glad that you found us and want to continue studying with us! We should be releasing new episodes like normal from next Monday :) Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas ❤
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Speaking of celebrating christmas, Every people has theirn own style of clelebration. for kate,Christmas Eve is full of excitement, it's the day bofore tge actual Christmas day.hanging up the stocking by the bonefire is filled with candy and other items ,gifts. all the family members 's name stewed in it.
In the Uk,25th is the main event of christmas, it's all about family and foods and enjoying each other company.
they usually kick out the day with present, everyone is tearing the wrapped present box with full of excitement.
Amazing notes from the episode! Thanks for all your hard work we’re happy that you’re here ☺️
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Thanks for watching!
Hello! Thanks for the cool, wonderful lessons! Please tell me which traditional films do you watch at Christmas
Ooo good question! This year in the UK on BBC One and BBC Two there are some classic Christmas films like White Christmas (1954) and Chariots of Fire (1981), but in previous years they have also shown The Great Escape (some of them are not related to Christmas at all!). Some 'modern classics' now are Love Actually, Elf and the Harry Potter films.
They also show a lot of kid-friendly films on TV, this year for example there was Toy Story 4 (2019), Cinderella (2015) and The Gruffalo. There are also some comedy shows that create a special Christmas episode.
This Christmas we have also watched Home Alone 1 - 2, Chicken Run, Die Hard, Wallace and Gromit, Love Actually, Mean Girls and a few more! So you have lots of choice for when you 'veg out' on the sofa during the Christmas period. :)
@@highlevellistening So interesting!!! Thank you for the wonderful answer dear teachers!💝🥰🙏
It's again Patrizia from North Italy Turin. In Italy we eat on Christmas Eve as well as on Christmas Day the 25th December. On The 24th we are accustomed to fry everything basically fish and vegetables. On the 25th we eat several appetizers then a delicious dish of Italian pasta such as lasagne, agnolotti, tortellini and so on, afterwards we have meat and potatoes rather than vegetables. We end up with slices of panettone and/or Pandoro or some other regional sweets. We are used to hang up stocking in the Eve of the 6th of January recalling the 3 Magic Kings arrival at Jesus' shelter. We fill up the stockings with chocolates and candies sometimes with some gift and sweet coal and put over the Fire Place. If I made mistakes in my English please let me know. Best greetings and Happy New Year listening to you all 2024.
Hi Patrizia! Thanks so much for sharing your experience for Christmas Eve and Christmas day! We also shared some panettone with friends this Christmas and it was delicious!
Since you asked for some corrections here are a couple:
we are accustomed to fry*ing (accustomed to doing something)
we are used to hang*ing up (used to doing something)
we end up with: this is a funny phrase: "end up with something" means it wasn't something you expected. "We wanted to go to a movie, but we ended up staying at home" You might like this phrase instead: "We finish off the evening with.... We finished up the dinner with...." finished off or finished up would mean we fully completed the dinner/totally completed the evening
Thanks for all of your hard work and thanks for watching our videos! See you soon for our next one!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Merry Christmas and thank you so much for sharing even today! In Spain, Christmas Eve is a special day too and families gathered to prepare dinner and we sing carols, have a drink and eat a little of turrón a while before dinner. We stuff ourselves too with lots of food for dinner: castilian soup or seafood soup, iberian ham, roast lamb, prawns, escarole salad, and so on. We usually play board games after dinner or wath musical special programs on TV. Some people dance a little on the living room...
That sounds like a wonderful way to spend some quality family time together! Thank you so much for sharing, the Spanish Christmas Eve sounds fun and delicious ☺️☺️🎄🎄
Merry Christmas guys ❤
Wishing you a season full of light and laughter for you and your family. Best wishes for a joyous Christmas filled with love, happiness and prosperity!
Now here comes my question;
Can I swap the expression " veg on the sofa "with the expression " plop on the couch " thanks in advance 👍 😊 Kat and Mark
Have a wonderful holiday thank you so much for watching and thanks for your question! Think of “veg out” or “veg on the sofa” as doing nothing and laying on the sofa
And “plop on the couch” as the movement and the way you sit yourself down on the couch
“So I’m just gonna plop myself down and veg the rest of the evening :)”
Happy vegging 😂
Hello Mark and ket
Can you talk about transportation systems in UK and USA
Hi good morning, we’ll add that to our list of topics, thanks for joining us ☺️
In Russia we call Santa Clause Grandfather Frost
Very fun! My friends in France call him Papa Noël which I think is also cute ☺️
You are so beautiful!!
Thanks so much! Happy holidays!
Sofa potato not couch potato😁 sofa Potato sounds a lot funnier than couch potato
Couch potato*
Haha sofa potato sounds like a potato you found sitting on the sofa 🥔😂😂😂
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Welcome and thanks for watching! Have a great day ☺️
Merry Christmas
Thank you same to you🎄🎄🎄🎄