Matching the celebrations with the correct images below:
a. b. c.


d. e. f.
Christmas
Birthday
Wedding
Valentine’s Day
Halloween
Mother’s Day
Christmas
Birthday
Wedding
Valentine’s Day
Halloween
Mother’s Day
UNIT 3: A PARTY
C. LISTENING
Before you listen
* Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions:
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2. What foods and drinks are often served at your birthday party?
3. What activities do you often have at your birthday party?
* Listen and repeat.
1. When do you like to organise your birthday party, during the day or in the evening?
C. LISTENING
While you listen
Guest (n)
last (v)
tidy up (v)
mess (n)
bring out (v)
Clean up (v)
serve (v)
Vocabulary:
UNIT 3: A PARTY
C. LISTENING
While you listen
Task 1. Listen and decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F).
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1. Mai’s birthday party was held at home in the evening
2. About twenty guests were at the birthday party .

3. The birthday cake was cut at about four thirty
5. The writer stayed after the party to tidy up the mess.
UNIT 3: A PARTY
C. LISTENING
While you listen
Task 2. Listen again and answer the following questions.
How old was Mai?
Why didn’t she like having her party at a restaurant?
What did Mai’s mother serve the guest at the beginning of the party?
What time was the birthday cake brought out?
What was the birthday cake like?

What did all the guests do while Mai was cutting the cake?
What time did the birthday party finish?
3. She served them soft drinks and biscuits at the beginning of the party.
1. She was sixteen years old.
2. Because it is noisy and expensive.
4. The birthday cake was brought out at about four thirty.
5. It was beautifully decorated with pink and white icing (and sixteen colourful candles sat in the middle of the cake).
6. They clapped their hands eagerly and sang “Happy Birthday”.
7. (It finished) at about six in the evening.
UNIT 3: A PARTY
C. LISTENING
After you listen
Work in pairs. Take turn to talk about Mai’s birthday party.
Ask your friend about Mai’s birthday. Ask about:
Place where the party was held
When it began and ended.
Who came
What you did there.
UNIT 3: A PARTY
HOMEWORK
Write a paragraph the birthday party which you have come .