We are Derek and River from OralPractice.com, and we'd like to wish you a bright and delightful holiday season. Derek and I recently finished setting up our Christmas tree and we're now busily wrapping presents to give to my family. Christmas is the most important festival in the United States, but it's also the most tiring one, especially for women! Selecting gifts is particularly difficult since you always have to guess what people want. We're also starting to bake cookies and make a gingerbread house to eat. Christmas offers a great excuse to gain some weight! I hope everyone in China will have a happy holiday! Merry Christmas everyone.

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　　Merry Christmas! This is Happybirthday from oralpractice.com. Today，I want to share with you something about Christmas. Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, who is considered the Son of God, and the savior of all people. With the birth of Christ, Christianity essentially begins; thus, Christmas also celebrates the beginning of Christianity. Christmas is normally celebrated on the 25th of December, but strong evidence suggests that Jesus may have in fact been born in the spring. Though many Christians date Christ’s birth as the end of the "Before Christ" or BC era, most believe Christ’s birth can actually be dated to 4 BC. This is a bit ironic, since the Christian era is thought to begin with the birth of Christ, but actually begins later. Some of the images inexorably tied with Christmas are things like shepherds in the snow, and the fierce cold of a winter night when Jesus was born. This is an unlikely scenario, though it is quite possible that the Jews participating in the census and taxation were extremely crowded in Bethlehem. Charles Dickens must be mentioned as inspiring many of the traditions we now regularly practice as part of Christmas celebrations. His phenomenal classic The Christmas Carol published in 1843 changed Christmas to a moderate, family oriented holiday. This differed from past celebrations which often verged on the anti-Christian, and which involved pursuing hedonism with graceless abandon. Today, some argue, Christmas has been inexorably corrupted by the commercialism with which it has come to be associated. For the poor, it may well be a time when, to quote Dickens, “want is keenly felt.” Dickens uses this as an argument for practicing charity and “keeping Christmas in our hearts” on every day of the year. That’s why I want to say again I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

　Hi, all my friends here, Merry Christmas. This is Angela from oralpractice.com. Thank you for everything we’ve shared in the last year. May peace, happiness and good fortune be with you in the coming new year. Good luck, my dear friends.

Hi, everyone. This is Celia, from oral practice.com. Christmas is around the corner, so here I want to give my best wishes to all my friends and the oral practice.com, which brings us together and connects us. May the spirits of Christmas bring you the joys and happiness all through the New Year. When stars are shinning, may Santa Claus come to you with my regards and gifts. Merry Christmas!

HI, this is Jacqueline from oralpractice .com. I've been teaching English on this website for several months and I have helped a lot of students to improve their English efficiently. I teach IELTS ENGLISH, Business English and New Concept English. Especially I am good at teaching the IELTS SPEAKING TEST. Well, the new year is coming. I am very glad to be here to send my best wishes to you: MERRY CHRISMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

This is Liz2000, from oralpractice.com. This special time of the year--Christmas, has come around again; I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas. And thanks oralpractice.com, my students and friends for your support. I enjoy the challenge of teaching you English and I hope to continue next year.

Hi, this is Liu from America. It’s the end of the year and it’s an unusual year for 2011. The earthquake, tsunami and the other disaters. The most devastating was the war-human wars. May the peace come to world in the coming year 2012. Let’s all make it happen, start at this Christmas day. Merry Christmas and may god bless you. Thank you.

　Hi,this is Retsam coming at you from Oralpractice.com. Merry Christmas!Isn't it fun. To say "Merry Christmas". To everyone? Time for a party. And presents and things. That make children happy. And give their hearts wings!