Hello and welcome to today's English lesson in today's lesson we're looking
at words and expressions we use in English when we talk about celebrations
let's go to the intro now as I said today's lesson is looking at words and
expressions we used to talk about celebrations of course we're coming up
to a time of the year when a lot of you will be celebrating you will be having
work celebrations family celebrations you will be celebrating a special time
of the year and even if it's not your special time of the year for
celebrations these words can come in handy to help you improve your English
vocabulary skills now we're going to look at some of the main verbs that we
use so we can celebrate you can host the celebration you can throw a celebration
you can hold a celebration and you can have a celebration yesterday we had a
celebration at work because somebody was leaving the company so we had a
celebration or we held a celebration or we threw a celebration yesterday at work
now in order to celebrate people can do different things for example you can
party okay you can party or you can have a party to celebrate
you can go clubbing with your friends if you want to celebrate New Year's Eve
maybe you go clubbing with your friends you go to a nightclub you go clubbing
maybe you go out for a drink or you go out for a meal to celebrate something
maybe an anniversary a birthday you go out for a drink or a meal or you can
wine and dine okay you can wine and dine now there's a lot of different ways to
celebrate for example you can have a ball you can have a school ball or some
other type of ball normally it's a formal okay
where you dance and have dinner that's called a ball you could have a fare you
could have a festival maybe some type of music festival to celebrate or some
other type of celebration that involves a festival you can have a banquet a
banquet normally is a big meal for many people a banquet you can celebrate with
a banquet you can have a gathering of people where friends of yours get
together for a gathering also you can call that a get-together a little bit
more informal this term a get-together we had a get-together on the weekend you
can have a send-off for somebody who is leaving maybe a friend of yours or a
work colleague or a school colleague is leaving you have a send-off celebration
you can have a housewarming celebration now a housewarming celebration is common
when you move into a new house you can have a house warming celebration or you
can have a fund raiser where you try to raise money for a specific cause and you
celebrate by having a fund raiser now some of the informal words for a
celebration you can call it a piss-up a piss-up a piss-up
is an informal celebration where normally you get quite drunk there's a
lot of alcohol involved a piss-up or a booze up booze is another word for
alcohol peace is a word for alcohol as well so a piss-up or a booze up you can
have a do you can have a formal do or an informal do also another word for
celebration you can have a shindig it's an informal word it's not used all that
often nowadays but you can have a shindig or you can have a bash a bash ok
another informal word so a lot of these words here are informal piss-up booze
updo shindig and bash informal words abrasions or parties let's say now some
of these expressions or idioms that we can use when we talk about celebrations
so you can let your hair down you can let your hair down when you let your
hair down you relaxed you celebrate freely okay you let your hair down you
have a whale of a time a whale of a time is a very good time you have a fantastic
time at the celebration you can have the time of your life the time of your life
again you have a fantastic time at the celebration you can have a ball okay you
can have a ball not related to the ball that I mentioned before but if you have
a ball it just means that you have a great time you have a ball did you enjoy
the party yesterday absolutely I had a ball you can have a night on the town
you have a night on the town where you go into the center of the city or to an
area where there's a lot of pubs and restaurants and bars etc you can have a
night on the tiles again where you go out to various places you have a night
out of your home in the center of the city on the tiles you can go on a bender
to go on a bender means that the party or the celebration goes on for a long
time and perhaps you get very very drunk you go on a bender okay
maybe you can go on a two or a three day bender according to your abilities when
it comes to celebrating and you can also paint the town red again when you go out
into the city into the town and you paint the town red you have a great time
celebrating with your friends with your relatives with your colleagues you paint
the town red so all of these words and expressions we can use when we talk
about celebrations in English now thank you very much for watching the lesson
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