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Festivals and celebrations bring people together for events that often involve costumes, parades, food, music and dancing as part of important cultural and religious traditions. Common festivals include carnivals like the Notting Hill Carnival in London, which features Afro-Caribbean culture, costumes and steel bands. Festivals are also occasions for families and communities to come together, such as for a golden wedding anniversary celebration on a boat trip with music from the era or a street party for a royal wedding.

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Festivals

Festivals and celebrations bring people together for events that often involve costumes, parades, food, music and dancing as part of important cultural and religious traditions. Common festivals include carnivals like the Notting Hill Carnival in London, which features Afro-Caribbean culture, costumes and steel bands. Festivals are also occasions for families and communities to come together, such as for a golden wedding anniversary celebration on a boat trip with music from the era or a street party for a royal wedding.

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FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS

Can you find these words in the puzzle?

carnival - celebration - ceremony - costume - culture - custom

decoration - event - firework - gather - parade - religious -

season - traditional
Reading Exercise

It was Nicky's idea, but we all think it's going to be brilliant. As soon as the last
exams have finished, we're going to decorate the main hall at school with paper
streamers and Chinese lanterns and things. Steve had this idea of projecting photos
of everyone onto a wall, like a slide show. And we've got Jo's brother, who's a
professional DJ, coming along. Then there are three different bands lined up to play.
Ours is the best, because we've been together longest and we've got a great bass
player, (coughs) although I say so myself, so we're on last. It's going to be cool.

Every year there's a carnival in August in London. You've probably heard of it, the
Notting Hill Carnival? So this year, me and my friends are going again. We went last
year and we had such a fantastic time. It's all Afro-Caribbean, with people in
amazing costumes and these brilliant steel bands. We don't go in costume, but we
do dance a lot. It does get quite crowded, so you have to make sure you stick
together. And you have to watch out for pick-pockets when there are so many people
in the same place. But it's really good fun; it's like London becomes a different
country. Even the police dance sometimes.

We're going to hire a boat for the day and take it up the river. It's my grandparents'
golden wedding anniversary, so the whole family is getting together. I'm really
looking forward to seeing my cousins again. I haven't seen them for ages. We've got
this huge picnic planned, with loads of different types of sandwiches and salads and
an enormous cake. My dad has borrowed an ancient gramophone player, you know,
what they had before CD players, and some old records. So as we go up the river
we're going to listen to music from the time my grandparents got married – the
swinging sixties!
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Two of my best friends have their birthday in the same week, so some of us have
decided to have a surprise party for both of them. One of my friends, Sandra, has a
big house, and her parents say we can use it. They're going away, luckily. It's at the
end of October, so we're going to decorate the house with Halloween things, you
know, spiders' webs and spooky things. We're going to make up an excuse to get
the birthday girls to come round to the house – say we're going to help Sandra move
some stuff, or something. Then, as soon as Sandra lets them in, we're going to turn
the lights out and jump out at them! We just have to make sure nobody mentions
anything on Facebook and gives away the surprise.

There's a Royal Wedding in June – one of our princes is getting married – so it's a
public holiday. Lots of people are having parties in squares and parks and places,
and the people in our street decided to have one too. Well, it's a good excuse to
have a party, isn't it? We're all going to take out tables and chairs and put them
together in the middle of the road. We're going to stop cars coming through,
obviously. We're all going to bring different dishes and share them round. There are
quite a lot of different nationalities living on our street – people from India, China and
different African countries – so the food should be really interesting. It'll be good to
get to know more of the neighbours too.

Do you have any celebrations planned?

What are you celebrating? What are you going to do?


Expressions we use in English to talk about CELEBRATIONS.

-We all love a good celebration. We love to celebrate, host, throw a party, hold a
party or have a party.

-Celebrations can be balls, festivals or gatherings.

-You can have an informal get-together with your friends and family.

B1 Conversation Phase Topic: Festivals Explained in English

Festivals vocabulary - Recursos didácticos

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