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A
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.
B
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.
C
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!
D
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.
E
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.
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Do you have any celebrations planned? What are you celebrating? What are you going to do?
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Yes, i'm about to get my paid time off, so i have plans to travel with a friend to Chile, one of my favourite countries in South America. We are going to ski as we've never seen the snow before. I am really excited about it.
Yes, my parent's wedding anniversary, they will be celebrating their 18th year together. I plan to have a small party for them with my closest relatives at mealtime, I also plan to do different activities and at the end, I will play a small video with photos of them together.
Yes, as it is almost November because the day of the dead but it will only be food and prepare the offering, it will also soon be my brother's birthday and mine there are only three days apart but they will still be different, we will eat different foods and not It will be a big party since I don't like it very much
We are celebrating Halloween party on Sunday, it is a typical American party in wich people are suposed to wear scarry costumes.
We are going to go to a party at Juanito´s house, because his parentr are away for the weekend. Mery is going to wear a pirate costume with a scar in the
eyebrow, María is going to weare a witch costume with a big black hat and a broom, Mónica is going to wear a vampire costume with long fangs and a black cap.
Carmen is going to weare a ghost costume with a white sheet.
In the party there is goig to be typical Halloween candies, like dentures, eyes, and biscuits.
The music will be typical Halloween songs, such as Thriller and ghost buster.
For Halloween we are celebrating a spooky night, where we will having a costum contest. After the winner is chosen there will be a terror movie night.
We're celebrating Halloween. And we are going to do our make up, put on our costumes, hace dinner, maybe pizza and then we are going to go to a party: after that we are going to have a pijama party and watch a film.
Hi everyone! Our next celebration is a Halloween party. On saturday night we are going to dress up with some Halloween costumes and we are hanging out with our friends at a disco in Madrid, because it make a theme party.
Hi! This long weekend I’m celebrating Halloween in Santander with my best friend and her friends. We are going to visit the sea and the center of Santander because we have never been there before. Also, we are have a party with a Halloween theme so we are going to wear special costumes.
I'm celebrating a Halloween costume party in my town and a Halloween's appetizer. First at 1 pm we are going out in Cercedilla where we have the appetizer and we have a drink . Later we are going to our premises to dress our costumes of Coco's film. Then we return to the bar for the costume party.
This fall my friends and I plan to have a small pandemic protocol meeting to celebrate the holiday of Halloween.
Hi, I'm Emilio and I've planned a hallowen celebration, I'm going to invite the whole tec and It's gonna be necesary wear a great costume.
this month I'm going to celebrate halloween and a friend's birthday
This year maybe I will celebrate Christmas with all my family who lives in Mexico and we are going to eat a mix of Mexican and Colombian food and we spend time together. The most probably is that on New Year we’re also do something like that.
My aunt’s party is on Friday and I'm going to be in charge of making the list of the people that are going to assist. Since the pandemic problem happened, there's going to be only 50 people and it will be from 5:00pm to 12:00am.
I'm going to a surprise birthday celebration and will help with the decorations.
Yess, this Saturday is my brother’s birthday, so my family is going to celebrate it having a meal with him, but something funny is that one of my friends also is his birthday, so in the morning I’m going to celebrate with my brother and in the night with my friend.
Hello, I'm doing a big celebration for this Halloween, everybody will come dressed as many things, it will be nice to see you there. The date is the same as Halloween and it´s in Juanito´s House
Yeah, I'm planning my birthday party is in 2 months and I'm gonna invite around a hundred persons. I wanna a big party like project x.
Yes! im trowing a big party in my house because my friends and i love Halloween
Yes, my birthday and im going to celebrate with my friends and my familiy, Im gonna do a big party and all will be happy
I have some birthday celebrations, this October 27th one of my best friends birthday so I am planning to go and see her and give her a present. And maybe I'm also celebrating halloween with some friends or with my family.
I am going to celebrate my aunt's birthday on October 9, so my family is going to organize a costume party with all my cousins, my mom and I will take care of the cake and decoration. Also, my aunt is a big fan of Halloween so at night we go to see horror movies.
– Dany
It I had to celebrate a birthday, what I would do is to go to a restaurant and order my favorite food and order a chocolate cake with some decorations of my favorite character and next is to invite some friends and also go bowling.
Yeah, I have to celebrate christmas with my family, they want to eat pavo relleno. May be we will go to some restaurant or only we are going to the store to bought some drinks and ingredients for made our own food.
This time I'm not celebrating anything special, but I'm going to celebrate a tradition soon. On the day of the dead together with my whole family, we are going to eat pan de muerto, tamales and many other things. There will also be an altar of the dead for all our relatives.
In my country there are many celebrations for example : halloween , christmas , dia de muertos and my family´s birthdays .
I am going to celebrate Halloween because it is my favorite celebration, and what I usually do is go trick-or-treating with my friends and wear a costume, this year my best friend and I are going to get a costume in which we pair up. We're both going to dress up as the Harry Potter character, that's what people usually do on Halloween.
Yes!! this month i am going to celebrate hallowen with my friends and my brothers. We wil use costumes , me and my friends are going to be zombies. We will do activities like trick or treating , watch scary movies and eat a lot of candys.
In the month of October we have several celebrations such as the discovery of America and it is also the birthday of my middle brother who is 9 years old I think we will go to eat or something similar that my brother likes
Yes, my birthday will be on October 19 and my parents and I have been planning a small party with my relatives who live in other cities and my friends, there will be cake, food, dancing, etc. it will be incredible and unforgettable.
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