[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to English pod my name is Marco my name is Katherine and we are your English language guides here at English pod that's right and today we're going to be taking you to Christmas morning it's Christmas Day oh one of the best times of the year you wake up you smell the good smell of delicious eggs and bacon and there's presents yeah I guess that's when you're a kid though I guess when you're an adult do you really get excited when you wake up for Christmas hell yeah yeah sure do
yeah I sure do I love Christmas morning even as an adult especially I think because of the special breakfast you get like pancakes scrambled eggs M but anyways we're going to be taking a look at a situation here where a kid is opening Christmas presents and we are preparing a meal for Christmas because that day people are going to come over so let's listen to this dialogue for the first time [Music] dad dad dad wake up it's Christmas Timmy it's too early for this look it's 6:00 in the morning go back to bed no way
Santa already came and left all our presents can we go open them please please of course we can honey Bill come on get dressed fine not like Santa brought me any gifts Bill honestly you can can be such a grouch sometimes look at all these presents under the Christmas tree awesome all right Timmy knock yourself out we should get ready and head to the market to buy everything for Christmas dinner tonight yeah you're right it's the first time we're hosting Christmas dinner at our house so everything has to be perfect I got the list right
here ham turkey mashed potatoes ingredients for the gravy and of course course yams my dad offered to bring the eggnog so we should be set all right we're back so there were a couple of different and interesting words there so let's take a look at them now in language takeaway language takeaway okay this first word is not a very happy word it's a it's a word that we try not to use too much around the Christmas season but sometimes you're just tired of people because the holidays is all about people and doing stuff someone who's
not being very happy someone who's a little bit grumpy is called a grouch okay so a person that's not very happy not very friendly is a grouch I don't want to open presents this is stupid okay that's a gr a grouch okay so a person is a grouch or you can act like a grouch or be a grouch don't be a grouch all right and uh well they were talking about heading to to the market to buy something for dinner so to head to okay to head to is a way to say to go towards
someplace or to go somewhere all right so if I'm driving my car and you ask me where I'm going I'm saying oh I'm heading to to the bank right so to head to means um to be on your way somewhere I'm going somewhere um it's a it's a way to say that you're in the process of going you can't say next year I will head to Alaska okay it it doesn't make as much sense you usually say you know I'm heading to the bank or um let's head to the market to the market okay and
uh well they were talking about heading to the market because they are hosting Christmas dinner so to host to host is a well it's a very important holiday term um it's a verb you do it and it means that you're the person who has the special dinner and your friends and family they come to your house okay okay so we could say this Christmas I'm hosting the dinner at my house so I want everyone to come to my house and eat all right and it can also be a noun right you can say I am
a host exactly the host of this dinner right and you it doesn't have to be holidays either you could say hey Marco how about you host a dinner next week I'll come right okay I'll bring wine all right so to host a dinner or to host a party Etc and our fourth word for language takeaway is probably the most popular drink during the Christmas season eggnog okay it sounds kind of disgusting yeah a drink with egg but it's a very popular creamy eggy drink it's very thick and it's cream colored and normally you add a
little bit of rum okay to make alcoholic yeah and uh you you drink it warm and it's kind of just a thick warm alcoholic beverage that's very very popular and um my my dad loves it during Christmas right usually you don't have it like any other day no you wouldn't want so it's too heavy but it's very very popular like the days before Christmas and on Christmas okay so eggnog very good so I think we should take a look at the dialogue again and we'll be back soon with fluency Builder dad dad dad wake up
it's Christmas Timmy it's too early for this look it's 6:00 in the morning go back to bed no way Santa already came and left all our presents can we go open them please please of course we can honey Bill come on get dressed fine not like Santa brought me any gifts Bill honestly you can be such a grouch sometimes look at all these presents under the Christmas tree awesome all right Timmy knock yourself out we should get ready and head to the market to buy everything for Christmas dinner tonight yeah you're right it's the the
first time we're hosting Christmas dinner at our house so everything has to be perfect I got the list right here ham turkey mash potatoes ingredients for the gravy and of course yams my dad offered to bring the eggnog so we should be set all right we're back so now let's take a look at a couple of phrases on fluency Builder fluency Builder Okay so this first phrase is a phrase that I often heard as a because I never wanted to go to sleep so I'd go downstairs and my parents would say Catherine go back to
bed go back to bed okay go back to bed so um this is just a very common colloquial spoken way of saying go back to sleep go to sleep don't be awake so you can say go to sleep or you can say go to bed or if somebody has gotten out of bed you say go back to bed exactly and so parents often use this with their kids because they want their kids to sleep but you can also say about someone who's you know up up at night worrying and you say come on go back
to bed go sleep relax relx okay and uh then we also saw this phrase knock yourself out all right Timmy knock yourself out so what is this knock yourself out well I'm not really sure where this phrase comes from I mean to knock is like to knock on a door right um but to knock yourself out if I think about it it probably means that you hit yourself in the head and you fall over um but the the real meaning of this is go have fun okay have as much fun as you can have right
have as much fun as you want go knock yourself out so the parent is saying hey Timmy go have as much fun as you want just go do it enjoy yourself yeah like go open all these presents have all the fun you want all right and then we saw another phrase when they finished talking about dinner and all the things they have to buy they said we should be set we should be set or we are set well this is funny because she says well my dad's going to bring the eggnog so we should be
set which means um we should have everything we need so we don't need anything else we're ready everything is good exactly so we can say we are set i'm set are you set it's a way to say are you ready are you prepared do you have everything you need okay so I often use this when I'm going on a trip I are you set did you pack everything are you all set are you all set yeah or I finished packing I'm all set I'm ready to go all set and ready to go all right okay
so some interesting phrases there as well why don't we have a look at our dialogue for the last [Music] time dad dad dad wake up it's Christmas Timmy it's too early for this look it's 6 in the morning go back to bed no way Santa already came and left all our presents can we go open them please please of course we can honey Bill come on get dressed fine not like Santa brought me any gifts Bill honestly you can be such a grouch [Music] sometimes look at all these presents under the Christmas tree awesome all
right Timmy knock yourself out we should get ready and head to the market to buy everything foras Christmas dinner tonight yeah you're right it's the first time we're hosting Christmas dinner at our house so everything has to be perfect I got the list right here ham turkey mashed potatoes ingredients for the gravy and of course yams my dad offer to bring the eggnog so we should be set all right we're back so as you mentioned Christmas morning is great you open presents and well breakfast and it's it's it's a time to be together with uh
your parents your family but as in this case you can be a little bit of a grouch because you just out of kind of tired cuz you had Thanksgiving in November and then Christmas and now you're having New Year so you're kind of just like uh yeah the holiday season can be exhausting and I know a lot of families have a special dinner on the 24th that's Christmas Eve and then by the time it's Christmas Day the 25th you're exhausted you didn't get any sleep you might have had too much to drink last night and
so it can be very tiring also because the kids always get up way too early like 6:00 right to open their presents right and then they'll be playing with their toys all day and you'll be you'll have a headache but it's a great season to spend time with the family and well we want to know how you spend your Christmas Eve on your Christmas morning so why don't you come to our website englishpod do.com and leave your questions and comments there as well we're looking forward to hearing from you again happy holiday season and until
next time bye [Music] [Music] bye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a bad tempered person Gro go ahead do as youe please knock oneself out go directly to head to hold an activity host ready for something set let's try that faster a bad tempered person Gro ready for something set go directly to head two go ahead do as you please knock oneself out hold an activity host now say the word and hear it in a sentence Gro that old man is such a roach he yells at anyone
who even steps into his yard Gro my friend was really groy today after they lost the football game Gro I was really groy because I hadn't eaten all day knock onself out here we are the amusement park all right kids knock yourself out Knock oneself out you guys are going to have a great time at the zoo knock yourself out Knock oneself out knock yourself out at the dance tomorrow night all right head to I need to head to the corner store to get more milk head to she headed to the church for the Christmas
Eve service head to you need to head to the doctor's office right now and get that cough checked out host I'm hosting a games night at my house on Thursday nights host he decided to host the party at his parents place host my sister is hosting a birthday supper for her friend set once I get the ribbon we should be set to start wrapping the presents set we should be set to go as soon as my friend arrives set with this new job I should be set for life [Music]
