5 Birthdays
“ You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old .”
― George Burns
Mixed up vocabulary
p erstens - (n) what you hope to receive lots of on your birthday
c kea - (n) people o en eat a piece of this on their birthday
c dnlaes - (n) there’s one for every year and you have to blow them out and make a wish
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v uceohr - (n) it’s like money, but you can only spend it in one par cular shop
p rtay - (n) your birthday is a good excuse to have one of these
s usrripe - (n/adj) something unexpected and nice
b loanol - (n) there are o en some of these at a child’s birthday party
Idioms and collocations
In the UK you
come of __________ on your 18th birthday.
Mar n was the
__________ of the party ; he didn’t stop dancing all night.
I hope you
have a __________ at your party tonight.
Come on Mick! It’s a party.
Let your __________ down and have a drink and a dance.
The test was really easy. It was a
piece of __________.
hair cake age ball life
Grammar bit
The party was so great and we had such a fun me . Tom was so drunk that he fell asleep
on the sofa. I got
such a lot of presents, and later the police came because the music was
so loud .
