Yay, it's the holiday season. It's that time of the year when many countries enjoy the
festivities, have a great time with their friends and families. In today's lesson we
are gonna look at some greetings that would help you to wish other people. Now most of
the times even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's nice and polite to offer your wishes
to others. And that's what we are gonna learn, how to wish people in this holiday season.
Hey everyone, it's me Niharika and I am really excited because the month of December is my
favorite month. Well, its the festive season. So what do you do, what are your plans for
this season? Well, you can always share it with us. But here, today I am gonna help you
with some greeting that you can use to wish this festive season. So let's have a look
at the very first one that I have for you which is Season's Greetings. This is a great
expression to use when you are wishing your colleagues or friends or family. Well, most
of the times this expression is used in writing. So if you are texting someone or if you are
writing on someone's Facebook timeline or you are just emailing someone your wishes.
So Season's Greeting is a great expression to use for the people and it doesn't matter
to whatever religion they belong to, it;s just perfect for each and everyone.So yes,
if you would like to offer your wishes then you can use the expression Season's Greetings
nut make sure, most of the the times its used in writing. Its okay to say it aloud as well,
but yes the first preference is given when you are writing to someone. Moving on the
second greeting that I have for you is Happy Holidays or Holiday Greetings. This time of
the year when you are celebrating Christmas and New Years there is so much joy and happiness
around. We all love to be with our friends and family having a great time. So , when
you have to wish someone, when you are parting your way with someone at work because in most
countries they have the vacation time ot the holiday time for two weeks that is when they
are celebrating Christmas and New Years, a great wish that you can use is Happy Holidays
or Holiday Greetings to you. That kinda spreads happiness and joy in everybody's lives. So
this is also one of the expression that you can use. Moving on to the third expression
that I have for you which is the most common one- Happy or Merry Christmas. In many countries
people prefer saying "Happy Christmas to you " and in other countries people tend to say
"Merry Christmas to you" So this expression is of course used for wishing someone a pleasant
Christmas. SO be it on the 24th of December or the 25th of December or even prior to Christmas
people like to wish other Happy Christmas or Merry Christmas to you. Its just a very
nice generous way to wish someone and it is a great greeting to use throughout the month
which is - Happy or Merry Christmas to you. The last one that I have for you is Happy
New Year Yes - when do you use this? On 25th of December ? No, that's the Christmas time.Happy
New year can be used of the 31st of December or after 31st of December which is the month
of January. You can wish people Happy New year throughout the month of January. When
do we use it? When we are celebrating or when we are waiting for midnight with our friends
and family staying awake to welcome the New Year. The moment the clock hits 12 and we
scream aloud by wishing everyone Happy New year . SO this is a greeting that you can
scream aloud and of course offer your wishes throughout the month of January to the people
that you meet. So these are the four common greetings that you can use in this month of
December to your family, to your friends and your colleagues.No how do you respond to these
Greetings? Well yes - if you are not wishing and someone else is offering their wishes
to you then how do you respond to these wishes? If someone says Season's Greetings or someone
writes to you Season's Greetings, you can respond to them by saying - Wishing you the
same or same to you or you can repeat the same expression -Season's Greetings to you
too. So either you can - Wish you the same / Same to you / Season's Greetings to you
too. Same applies to Happy Holidays or Holiday Greetings. If someone wishes you by using
this expression - Hey Happy Holidays then again you can repeat the same expression by
saying Happy Holidays to you too and then we have Happy or Merry Christmas - so if someone
says Happy Christmas then I will say Happy Christmas to you too or Merry Christmas to
you too or wish you the same. And then the last one is Happy New year then
you can say Wishing you a happy New year as well.
So this is the way you will respond to the greetings. And now we have some common questions
that you can ask to the people around you during this festive season. That kind off
give you a reason to start having a conversation with someone. So you can use one of these
questions in a very confident manner that will break the ice and you will start to have
a good conversation with the other person. So the first common question that is usually
asked during this period is - What are you doing for Christmas? SO, most of us have some
plans we are either celebrating it with our family or we are having a good night out with
our friends. So Christmas is a very close family affair and most of us celebrate it
. so yes - if you have plans and you would like to know the other person's plans as well
then this is a great question to ask which is - What are you doing for Christmas? The
second question - Are you done with Christmas shopping? Yes, people of course go out shopping
either to buy the Christmas decorations when they have to decorate their house or their
workplace with a nice beautiful Christmas tree or with some nice pretty decorations
then people go for Christmas shopping but they also go shopping to buy gifts. We do
exchange gifts during Christmas , the kids wait for the gifts all round year so Are you
done with Christmas shopping is a great question to ask to build a conversation. The last question
which is again very commonly used by many people is - DO you have any special plans
for the holidays? This is a great question that you can ask at your workplace. You are
having a chat with your colleague and you would like to know about he's gonna celebrate
his Christmas or his New Year's then you can ask - Do you have any special plans for the
holidays? The word holiday sums up the whole month of December. SO be it Christmas plans
or New Year plans well we are talking about the holiday season. So go ahead use these
greetings , its always nice - a sincere Christmas wish is just perfect and makes the persons
day so use it with everyone and if you wanna have a conversation with your friends or colleagues
then ask these questions And you have a great great Christmas and wishing you a Happy New
Year , I will be back with a new lesson soon till then you take care.