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Assistant: Description: Christmas is coming!
Christmas is coming very quickly now.
Yesterday, my daughter and I went&nbsp;
to buy a real Christmas tree,
and we spent the afternoon decorating it.
But today, I need to show you how&nbsp;
to decorate your Christmas cake.
If you are new to my channel, hello!
I'm Rachel and welcome to "smile English stories"&nbsp;
where you can listen to English&nbsp;
in lots of different contexts.
But don't forget to hit the bell!
If I speak too quickly, or too slowly
you can change the speed in YouTube.
I don't always have a real Christmas tree.
I usually have an artificial Christmas tree...
...and this is a very old box,
because I bought my artificial Christmas&nbsp;
tree when I was at university in England...
...that's a long time ago!
And when I first went away&nbsp;
from home (when I left home),
my mum bought me this really heavy suitcase.
It was my first suitcase, and we&nbsp;
have all the Christmas decorations&nbsp;&nbsp;
in my suitcase in the roof of the house.
And when I open my suitcase, when I open it,
it starts to feel like Christmas!
So yesterday, we decorated our&nbsp;
Christmas tree with snowmen,
and bells and tinsel.
I have a box of Christmas&nbsp;
baubles in my suitcase too&nbsp;
(the Americans might call&nbsp;
them Christmas ornaments).
We even have a Father Christmas&nbsp;
who is playing football.
It's part of a set I bought when I&nbsp;
went to Hong Kong a long time ago.
And of course we put a star&nbsp;
on the top of the tree.
A few weeks ago I showed you how&nbsp;
I make my English Christmas cake,
and over the last few weeks,&nbsp;
so since I made my cake,
I have been feeding my cake (not me),
feeding my cake with brandy.
So now my cake is smelling pretty good,
and I'm ready to show you how to decorate it,
or how I decorate my Christmas cake.
In the past, when I was&nbsp;
younger and I had more time,
I have decorated cakes with royal icing,
or you can decorate a Christmas cake&nbsp;
with little fondant icing figures,
but these days I don't have the time,
so I just decorate my cake with almond paste.
To make the almond paste, it's very simple.
I have just mixed 125g of sugar
with 125 grams of ground almonds,
and I have broken an egg into a bowl
and mixed it, just a little, with a fork.
So now I need to add the egg, little by little,
and mix it together with a fork to make a ball.
Be careful! You might not need all the egg!
When the mixture is getting a little wetter,
put some icing sugar on your fingers&nbsp;
and test the mixture with your fingers.
You don't want the mixture&nbsp;
to be too wet (too sticky)&nbsp;
but you don't want it to be too dry and crumbly...
...and look, I didn't use all the egg!
So I have just put some icing sugar on&nbsp;
my rolling pin and on the work surface&nbsp;
so I can roll my ball out.
It needs to be big enough to cover&nbsp;
the top of the Christmas cake.
So that looks okay now.
It looks about the right size.
I have a special little cake board
for my Christmas cake,
so if I put the cake on my board,
I will be ready to decorate it.
So the idea is to put a little jam on the cake
with a little teaspoon
and then spread the jam over the cake
with a knife.
And then with your hands,
you can put the almond paste on the cake.
"What is (s)he doing?
Oh no no no! This did not happen!"
It doesn't have to be perfect.
You can model the almond paste with your fingers
and then put some little&nbsp;
marks on the cake with a fork,
because after we are going&nbsp;
to toast it under the grill.
A toasted Christmas cake!
So now the Christmas cake is toasted,&nbsp;
I'm going to decorate it with&nbsp;
some little plastic decorations.
I quite like the holly
with the bright red berries,&nbsp;
and then a little Merry Christmas.
By the way, did you know that "Merry" means happy
but it can also mean a little drunk.
Ho ho ho!
Look! I have just found my very first&nbsp;
advent calendar in my Christmas suitcase!
So enjoy counting the days to Christmas...
...and if you liked this video,
give me a thumbs up,&nbsp;
and come back next week,
because I'm going to tell&nbsp;
you the story of mistletoe.
See you next week!

Title: Decorating for Christmas – my TREE and my CAKE !
Caption: AMELIORER votre anglais - Ihr Englisch VERBESSERN - MEJORAR su inglés

Listen to interesting English and improve your English !  In this video I talk a little about Christmas decorations and show you how to make almond paste for an English Christmas Cake.

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- écouter l’anglais compréhensible (!) en choisissant une autre vidéo – il y a des légendes en anglais, voyager en anglais, des histoires en anglais, de la cuisine en anglais, de l’histoire en anglais,...

- escuche inglés comprensible (!) eligiendo otro video: hay leyendas en inglés, viajes en inglés, historias en inglés, cocina en inglés, historia en inglés,…

- Wenn Sie gerne Englisch hören, werden Sie wahrscheinlich meine anderen Videos gerne anhören. Es gibt Legenden auf Englisch, Reisen auf Englisch, Geschichten auf Englisch, Kochen auf Englisch, Geschichte auf Englisch,…

- if you like listening to English, you will probably enjoy my other videos.  There are legends in English, travel in English, stories in English, cooking in English, history in English,…


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- listen and watch all the video
(try to understand with the images, gestures and context - adjust the speed if necessary)
- listen again with the subtitles if necessary
- if you want to, write new words (not more than 10)
- listen again with NO SUBTITLES – you should understand more


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“I want to… understand English, listen to English I can understand, learn English vocabulary, learn English without grammar, have a conversation in English… improve my English!”

Is that you?

Perfect!  I think you are in the right place… because I want to help you to learn English, to acquire English… I want you to listen to English spoken naturally… and to understand English spoken naturally… to listen to English spoken in lots of different contexts!  I want you to enjoy English!

I want you to practice listening to English, but to listen to interesting English.  

English conversation is often an exchange of stories in English.  To have a conversation in English with someone when you travel in English, you need to master “English small talk”.  For example, you might need to :
- talk about yourself in English
- talk about family in English
- talk about food in English
- talk about weather in English
- talk about holidays in English
- talk about interests in English
- talk about sport in English

So, I am building my smileEnglishstories YouTube channel, to give you one opportunity to listen to English spoken naturally in lots of different contexts.  After all, in England we say, “Variety is the spice of life!”

And I tell you stories in English, because if you listen to interesting stories to learn English, you will be more motivated to listen to English and you will naturally improve your listening comprehension.

I try to use simple English when I make my smileEnglishstories YouTube videos.  Simple, but rich in content!  That means accessible English for beginners (good beginners), but still interesting English for elementary level and interesting English for intermediate levels.


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