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hello

everybody good morning good afternoon

good evening my name is teacher Rich for

Oxford online English and today we are

talking about the Christian in

Christmas often you get lessons around

about this time of year which focus on

Christmas around the world or the Pagan

traditions of Christmas or stuff like

that my camera is really not that good

today is

it and I decided you know let's go back

to root Source kind of and talk about

Christian

Christmas so what are the Christian

elements of

Christmas I think last year I did the

Pagan and the old English elements of

Christmas there's plent plenty of those

like that stuff and that there they are

from Pagan Traditions but let's talk

about the the Christian Traditions the

Christian in

Christmas so hello to everybody in the

chat today and let me show you a

picture so have a look at these two

pictures which of these is your idea of

Christmas so which of these is more your

idea of

Christmas we have two different

Christmases there and we're going to say

they're both let's say fairly modern

day a picture on the left and the

picture on the right so which of those

is more your idea of Christmas and can

you tell me can you tell me in the

chat can you tell me in the chat what

can you see in the two pictures what can

you see in the two pictures

hello and merry

Christmas hello to corvax corvax Aries

hi hello Julia hello Mina hello dreamer

hello Manuel honey so says hello I'm

honey hello

honey par

daa Venus Krishna

hello par says I don't have any idea

fantastic well you should

you should find this interesting then we

got old traditional and modern Christmas

decorations yeah there's a little bit of

a difference there in the decorations

mhm and L AA says I like your

jumper because I'm British so we call it

a jumper but you're right the Americans

call it a Jersey Lin

ABA the first pictures with family yeah

that's right so the picture on the left

we can see

family the picture on the left we can

see

family Ashley Chen says what I see in

picture one is all the family members

Gathering Together chatting and

praying H

yeah on the left side people are doing

their work work I don't know about doing

their work but in the other one they are

posing that's right so in the right

picture they are posing in the left

picture they are looking at the nativity

scene they are looking at the nativity

scene what's a nativity scene can you

see

that we have a nativity scene the first

picture looks more ancient style ancient

is not the correct word

here traditional

oldfashioned stuff like

that and no political messages in the

chat

please Christmas is to pray and

celebrate the

holiday

spiritual Manuel says nativity scene on

the table is a

joke tell us Manuel tell us about your

nativity scenes in

Spain the right pictures with friends

yes we have a Christmas tree in both

pictures the picture on the left has

some Christian photos Christian

Christian paintings on the wall the

picture on the right has modern art on

the

wall uh Muhammed Yahya says hello from

Mali so I'm going to show you some

phrases that relate to Christian

Christmas five

phrases here they

are look at those

phrases what do they

mean how do they relate to Christmas do

you know about these things we have

Midnight

Mass Christmas

carols a nativity

scene Advent candles

and a

christingle christingle

service so what indeed are these things

what indeed are these

things what are

they

number one is a congregation what what

is a congregation Julia what does that

mean praying just before Christmas

question mark says

corx Anna says number two is sing

Christmas songs like all I want for

Christmas is

you

I can't

imagine is is is all I want for

Christmas is you actually A Christmas

Carol I'm not sure if that's a Christmas

carol Christmas carols do not have to be

religious but I think all I want for

Christmas is

you I want to say that's not a Christmas

carol you can have we wish you a Merry

Christmas that is a Christmas

Carol We Wish You a Merry

Christmas should we have live live Rich

learns to play We Wish You a Merry

Christmas on

stream on

guitar is my guitar in

tune

no is

it sounds a bit out hang

on just the bottom

string the higher

strings maybe maybe we'll have a bonus

might sing We Wish You a Merry Christmas

live on stream I should practice for

that but hey it's the second to last

ever stream on Oxford online English

second to last I think Carrie has

finished she's done she did a last

stream this is the second to last from

me and my final stream will be next

week I don't know anything about

Christmas because I'm Muslim interesting

please sing says Patu okay we'll see

what's the purpose okay so let me show

you some pictures to help with

this so take a look at the

pictures picture 1 2 3 4

5 can you tell me what are the names of

these pictures what can we see in the

pictures number one is midnight

mass what do you think about the

others what else can you see in the

pictures what can you see in the other

pictures it's kind of difficult

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to

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okay more or less is

it um number one midnight mass number

two Christmas carols that's

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right

I just don't think it's a good idea

without having it tuned and without

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practicing number three Advent candles

no number three is not Advent

candles Ah that's better

sorry

Santos of course if you're annoyed then

it will be

memorable yes number five add event

candles so one midnight mass two

Christmas carols

three no one has

three no one has three anyone have three

number three no so number three is a

christingle and we'll talk about that

Chris dingles have become more popular

over the

years the last 100 years or so Chris

singles have become more

popular number five is a nativity scene

and number six is advent

candles okay so I'm going to I'm going

to tell

you I'm going to tell you some things

about

these I want you to

listen and type the

keywords listen and type keywords so get

ready in chat listen and type

keywords if you're ready type ready and

press

enter if you're ready type ready in the

chats let's go ready go go go how quick

ready Santos he's on it oh look at this

okay we've got

it Casia Lima there's always

one could you please spell number three

I typed it in the chat it's c h r i s t

i n g l e

christingle okay listen and type the

keywords that you

hear

the Chris Dingle service a relatively

recent tradition begun by the morovian

church in the 18th century is a unique

and symbolic celebration the word

christingle means Christ Light and

represents Jesus as the light of the

world the service involves creating a

christingle an orange representing the

world a red ribbon symbolizing the blood

of Christ fruits and sweets on sticks

signifying God's creations and a lit

candle at the center of the orange

embodying Jesus's light participating in

this service is a profound experience a

tactile reminder of God's love for the

world and the hope that Jesus's birth

brings to

humanity

let's see what you've got in the chat

then so the morovian church Santos how

did you hear that and how did you spell

it

correctly how did you do that are you

using like caption

software recent tradition very good well

done Sonia unique and symbolic that's a

good one the symbolic celebration the

light of the world a lit candle the

blood of

Christ M very

good orange represents God and

creation a lit Candle on the body

profound experience very good and I'll

just show you the script here so there's

the script for you if you wish if you

wish to see that it's right

there and that will be in the notes for

today so that's the

christingle quite a recent tradition

actually the christingle started by the

morovian

church I have no idea what the morovian

church is what is the morovian church

does anyone know the morovian

church uh is one of the oldest

Protestant

denominations dating back to the

Bohemian Reformation of the 15th

century 60 years before Lutheran

Reformation

wow that is an old

Reformation our lamb has conquered let

us follow

him the morovian church

everybody okay so that was a christingle

let's do it again I'm going to read some

information and I want you to type the

key

wordss read some information and I will

type the

keywords

the nativity scene is a vivid tbla

depicting the birth of Jesus Christ

originating from St Francis of aisi in

1223 this tradition brings the story of

Christmas to life crafted with care each

figure from Mary to Joseph to the three

wise men plays a crucial role in this

Divine narrative creating a nativity

scene is a tactile way to connect with

the story of Christmas offering a moment

of contemplation about the humble

beginnings of Jesus it is a poignant

reminder of the Miracle of Life and the

universal message of hope and

love

poignant poignant exactly

poignant I like that word

poignant

and Manuel says LOL three wise men who

are they

yo Manuel is a bit of a

Zuma he doesn't believe in old

traditions he prefers the new ones like

Santa

Claus actually I think it's the opposite

yeah all right so I'll give you the text

next here there were some complaints

about the

size so let's see if I can give you a

bigger one

bigger how is that that's about that's

as big as I can do really without

problems I could do that there you

go I don't understand anything from this

video says

Melle uh mashel can you read the text

there are some difficult words like

Vivid

table and bring the store to

life crafted with

care there's lots of difficult words a

cruci play a crucial

role Divine

narrative attack D

way the story of

Christmas a moment of

contemplation the humble

beginnings a poignant

reminder the Miracle of

Life and the universal message of hope

and love lots of excellent phrases

there okay everybody let's move

on I'm going to read the next one you

can type your keywords in the

chat

okay number

three lighting Advent candles is a

practice steeped in symbolism and

anticipation the tradition originating

in Germany in the 19th century marks the

countdown to Christmas

each candle lit on the four Sundays

leading up to Christmas represents

themes of Hope peace love and joy core

tenants of the Christian

faith this ritual is a reflective

Journey Illuminating the path to

Christmas

day as each candle flickers it's a

reminder

of the light that Christ brings into the

world guiding us through the

darkness towards a future filled with

hope and

Grace We Wish You a Merry

Christmas

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so in the chat we have Rich ritual

Illuminating the

path

reminder with hope and Grace Hope and

Grace yes Hope and Grace g r a c Grace

Hope and Grace what is

Grace what is Grace can anyone tell me

without using Google what is

Grace

what is

Grace what is

Grace

Irene says Grace is a kind of

forgiveness I think there's part of

forgiveness

yeah Grace is a gift from Jesus yes

that's

right gra Grace is a gift from

God which Christians

believe we earn because of Jesus's

sacrifice ice and when we ask for grace

in the name of Jesus then we receive

it so Grace is the love and favor of

God it is the presence of God and God's

love within

you uh yes forgiveness is a part of it

but I suppose there's many parts it's a

complex thing

and I am no expert in

theology I am no expert in

theology but my understanding is Grace

is like God's

love so you can see the text on the

screen

and I think we'll do one more of these

so you have the choice you have a choice

here uh your choices

are midnight

mass or Christmas carols

let's have a vote midnight mass or

Christmas carols you know what I'll do a

proper vote hang

on okay there's a poll now in the

chat what do you want to hear about

midnight mass or

Christmas

carols I receive God's grace when I lose

hope

that is one of the times when people

receive God's

grace at least it's one of the times

when people seek God's grace I

think all right you've got 20 seconds to

vote 20 19 18 the vote is in the

chat

yeah I think it has actually Manuel and

there's a few reasons for that it's

quite interesting you can see in the

picture that there's not that many

people at midnight mass but there's

quite a few reasons why midnight mass

doesn't bring people in anymore and

apparently one is

that if you have a midnight mass service

then you get lots of drunk people who

come out the pub and go to midnight mass

and it's quite difficult for the church

to

manage so a lot of churches don't do

midnight mass

anymore right so Christmas carols it is

okay let's hear about Christmas carols

so once again listen and type the

keywords carols are The Melodies of

Christmas echoing Through the Ages the

tradition of singing Christmas carols

dates back to the Middle Ages evolving

from Pagan songs sung during winter

solstice

celebrations these joyful hymns gained

Christian significance telling the story

story of Jesus's birth spreading cheer

and the message of Christmas singing

carols is more than spreading festive

Joy it's a way to connect with our past

to participate in a practice that has

brought people together for

Generations perhaps one of the reasons

why Christmas carols were adopted by

Christians so much is that seeing

in is mentioned as an act of worship and

an act of celebrating God several times

in the

Bible Christians like

singing and the Bible talks about

it

so there we are there's your Christmas

carols and there is the script on the

screen right

now does anyone have any questions about

the vocabulary that we've seen today

lots of really interesting vocabulary

there

Pagan uh Pagan

means pre

Christian or even

pre pre prej judeo

monotheism uh so prej judeo

polytheistic

religions that's

Pagan so

Pagan religions would be uh Nordic

gods uh the Roman

Pantheon is Pantheon the right

word the Roman Pantheon

right no it's not Pantheon is it what do

you call it the Roman

panon what you call like the collection

of Gods

maybe it is

Pantheon yes it is it's Pantheon the

Roman Pantheon Greek

pantheon uh

Hinduism Hindu Hinduism

is basically Pagan so Pagan is um

everything every

polytheistic

religion really uh in this context Pagan

means the ancient

English so the the the Kelts and uh

Anglo-Saxons pre- Christianity uh before

um

conversion they were Pagan and and the

Danish the Danes the

Vikings

but of

course it makes sense for Christians

to adopt Christmas carols because

Christians love

singing this is this is for all of you

non-christians out there who haven't

been to church Christians love

singing If you go to church you will

see yeah Christians love

singing

right so that was our little dive into

Christian

Christmas and you can download the notes

for today just put those in the

chat and I think it is is appropriate to

say that this is the countdown to the

end not to the end of the year but to

the end of classes of live classes on

Oxford online

English we are

ending live

classes um so I have one more that's the

that's the final one on the

30th that's the final one and if you

want to see more of me you can go to my

channel my personal

Channel where I will

continue but on Oxford online English

the classes will

stop why is Oxford online stopping

that's a good question

Patu um I think that's for olle to

answer really but

basically I suppose O's

plan for streaming didn't go as he

expected so he was hoping for a bit more

from streaming and I think YouTube

doesn't promote streaming as much

as other videos perhaps so

hey so we got one more and if you want

to

continue learning with me then you can

youtube.com/ Professor

rich I stream twice a

week uh do you want to review your first

OE stream I would like to do that

actually that'd be

interesting yeah it'd be interesting to

compare wouldn't it maybe I should do

that next week that could be fun that's

a really good idea

actually really good

idea all right

so question time

folks uh got a little bit of time for

questions and then I will be

continuing on my own channel so please

do join me

there get the dumb headphones off that

kind of helps a bit doesn't

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it

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in

so it's definitely wrong

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here maybe that was

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it

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are you ready folks um I think actually

it might be better if I just sing

without playing

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guitar I need a accompany I need

accompaniment

one two one

two hang

on hug hug the herald is that right hug

the Herald Angels Sing glory to the

newborn king peace on Earth and mercy my

old God and sin is reconcile joyful all

ye nations rise join the Triumph of the

Skies with Angelic host Proclaim Christ

is born in Bethlehem H the heral Angels

Sing glory to the newborn

king I don't know if I did the tune

right I can't remember but that's

probably all you're going to

get so you enjoy that there you go

Christmas Carol for you folks so there

is a tradition of singing in

Christianity and something that's

returned a little bit is singing carols

on the street and people still do that

so and and it's actually it's becoming

more popular now that churches are

getting together and they will go on the

street at about 6:00 p.m. so it's dark

and they go around the neighborhood and

and sing the songs under a lamp post and

it's they normally sing about four songs

and then move on and it's very very nice

and um actually I joined one this year I

did one uh joined the the Christmas

carol Service uh no it's called the

Christmas carol walk actually I joined

one and we we we sung the songs and it

was um it was good fun and we also went

to a care home so a care home you know a

home where normally old people require

some sort of care and attention and we

went there and sung for for them and

that was nice as

well we didn't get much response from

them I guess in a care home people

normally have lots of

medication so there wasn't a great deal

of wasn't a great deal of response going

on but it was it was nice to do it's the

first time I've ever done it in my life

and I think I will do it again actually

because I really I enjoyed it more than

I expect I thought it was like an

obligation oh I'll do it okay and then

when I did it I was like oh this was

good I want to do that

again so um so that was kind of fun

actually and uh yeah I probably will do

that again that that I think is what

carols are all about so do we have any

questions

folks

if not then I'm going to take a little

break and I will resume on youtube.com/

Professor

reach and join me next week for the

final stream the last

one and hey uh I I look forward to it

I'm I'm I think actually next week I'm

probably not going to organize a lesson

but I'm just going to come on stream and

just talk about teaching English

teaching online working with olle and

Oxford online

English doing the

streams and a bit about the future as

well so we won't have much in the way of

M material next week it's more of a hey

this is the end of that it's been fun

and let's see where we go from here that

kind of

thing so Santos says can you tell us how

to connect with native speakers what I

would say Santos

is find a genuine reason to connect with

people that is is not about learning

English so for example are you

religious if you are then you could

connect with a an English-speaking

religious community so if you're a Hindu

then you can find English-speaking

Hindus if you are Buddhist you can find

English-speaking Buddhist

communities that's a good way to do it

if you're not

religious then think about special

interests like online cooking

groups public speaking groups like

there's lots of free groups

online uh like one if any of you out

there have problems with drugs or

alcohol there are several

groups which help people with

addiction and they often have support

groups well almost always the support

groups are in English and they're online

you can join them for free so if you

have that kind of issue and you want

to be free from that then joining one of

those groups would be absolutely

fantastic uh I'll see if I can find the

one that I

recommend I know there's everyone knows

Alcoholics Anonymous but

there's there's another one that's kind

of famous now that's that people really

like just give me one moment here and

I'll post post about it in the

chat

smart recovery they're the

ones

yeah so the these guys have got loads of

like free online

meetings so if that's your

thing if you want to

quit an

addiction uh there's lots

of

English-speaking meetings on that

website um so it's a great way to

connect with English speakers and

improve your

English all right everybody Merry

Christmas and I will see you in 10

minutes on my channel thank you very

much for joining me today smash that

like button go to YouTube go to

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and I'll see you next week for the last

ever live stream all right catch you

later folks I'll see you in 10 minutes

Merry

Christmas have a very Merry Christmas

yes I should say that have a wonderful

very very Merry Christmas and I'll see

you in 10

minutes

sense okay I'm having oh God yes should

have ended the stream now I'm having a

coughing

fit

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Christmas /ˈkrɪsməs/ A1	noun - A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
tradition /trəˈdɪʃən/ A2	noun - A custom or belief passed down through generations
celebrate /ˈsɛləbreɪt/ A1	verb - To observe a special day or event with festivities
nativity /nəˈtɪvɪti/ B1	noun - The birth of Jesus Christ, often depicted in a scene
carol /ˈkærəl/ A2	noun - A hymn or song sung at Christmas
Advent /ˈædvɛnt/ B1	noun - The period leading up to Christmas, marked by preparation
poignant /ˈpɔɪnjənt/ C1	adjective - Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
symbolize /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/ B2	verb - To represent something abstract by a symbol
congregation /kənˈɡrɛɡəˌleɪʃən/ B1	noun - A group of people gathered for religious worship
grace /ɡreɪs/ B2	noun - Divine favor or love, often associated with forgiveness
Pagan /ˈpeɪɡən/ B2	adjective - Relating to religions other than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam
midnight /ˈmɪdˌnaɪt/ A1	noun - The middle of the night, specifically 12 a.m.
mass /mæs/ A2	noun - A religious service in the Catholic Church
christingle /ˈkrɪstɪŋɡəl/ C1	noun - A symbolic object used in Christian services, representing Christ's light
moravian /məˈreɪviən/ C2	adjective - Relating to the Moravian Church, a Protestant denomination

Key Grammar Structures

• Hark! The herald angels sing

  ➔ Imperative mood (command form)

  ➔ "Hark" is an imperative verb telling someone to listen attentively, common in exclamatory or poetic contexts to draw attention.

• Glory to the newborn King

  ➔ Prepositional phrase (expressing attribution)

  ➔ "To the newborn King" is a prepositional phrase showing the recipient or target of the glory, indicating attribution in a praise context.

• Peace on earth, and mercy mild

  ➔ Compound sentence (connected by 'and')

  ➔ "Peace on earth" and "mercy mild" are two independent clauses joined by "and", forming a compound sentence to list related concepts.

• God and sinners reconciled

  ➔ Past participle (passive voice)

  ➔ "Reconciled" is the past participle of "reconcile", used in passive voice to show that reconciliation between God and sinners has happened.

• Joyful, all ye nations, rise

  ➔ Directive imperative (with vocative 'ye')

  ➔ "Rise" is an imperative verb urging action, preceded by the archaic vocative "ye" addressing nations, creating a directive tone.

• Join the triumph of the skies

  ➔ Infinitive as complement

  ➔ "Join" takes the infinitive phrase "of the skies" as part of the object, showing participation in something metaphorical.

• With the angelic host proclaim

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating accompaniment

  ➔ "With the angelic host" is a prepositional phrase specifying the group accompanying the action of proclaiming.

• Christ is born in Bethlehem

  ➔ Present perfect passive (using 'is born')

  ➔ "Is born" expresses the passive birth of Christ, equivalent to present perfect in modern English, emphasizing the completed event.

• Hark! The herald angels sing

  ➔ Noun phrase modification (with adjectives)

  ➔ "The herald angels" is modified by the definite article and implies descriptive adjectives for specificity in addressing singers.

• Glory to the newborn King

  ➔ Possessive construction (with 'newborn')

  ➔ "Newborn King" uses an adjective as a possessive modifier, indicating the King who is newly born.