Party Animal or Party Pooper? 46 Words and Phrases for Celebrations

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What's up everyone I'm Andrea, your real life  English fluency coach and in today's lesson we'll
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be learning vocabulary and expressions related  to celebrations and parties and we are learning
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so this lesson will be broken down in three  parts first different types of celebrations
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second common collocations and mistakes  and lastly fun expressions for parties
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so to start off with we are going to look at  some different words for celebration and also
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the different types of celebrations that you can  have so usually people call a celebration a party
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so this is probably the one that you will hear the  most and we are going to look at this a little bit
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more in depth later on you might also use the word  bash so lots of people will say we are having a
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bash or this is another way of describing a type  of celebration you could also have the word do so
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some people might say oh we're having a do for our  anniversary party for example so this one is also
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quite common amongst natives so if you do hear it  don't be too confused by it another word used for
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celebrations that's also quite interesting is the  word shindu so some people might say oh I went to
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this shindig at the weekend it was really fun it  was really cool and you might be like what are you
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talking about what on earth is a shindig but it  does actually just mean a party or a celebration
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you might also call a celebration a get-together  because often when this happens lots of people
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get together lots of people come together for a  celebration also you might sometimes be invited to
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a farewell party so it can be called this way but  it might also be called a send-off so some people
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have a celebration to have a big old send-off so  maybe someone is moving to a new country maybe
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someone in your workplace has a new job so you  would have a party to send them off in a great way
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sometimes you might also want to have or be  invited to a housewarming so this is typical
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when someone moves into a new home once they  are settled they will then have a housewarming
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so they will invite their closest friends or  family to warm up their house to have a little
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party to celebrate their new place also if you  want to raise money for charity or have some
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sort of fundraiser this is another celebration or  party so you might throw a fundraiser you might
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organize a fundraiser and you could attend one as  well you could just simply call it a gathering so
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usually when there's a celebration lots of people  gather together a little bit like come together
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they gather together they come for this one  celebration this one particular party and if
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you're lucky enough you might even get invited to  a ball so a ball is a very formal occasion where
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you would wear a ball gown and men would probably  wear a tuxedo or a very nice suit and it will be
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probably in a very grand location very beautiful  place and it will be a very formal kind of party
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and finally the last word we're going to have a  look at here is reunion so you can have a reunion
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party maybe it's with your college or university  friends maybe you have a high school reunion
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or maybe just a reunion of friends that haven't  seen each other for a really long time and you
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could also have a family reunion sometimes what  happens now in the world that we live in people
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move around all over the world so then there  must be a time where people can come together
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and have a family reunion have a big old party  to celebrate and enjoy spending time together
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so now we're just going to briefly look at some  verbs that we would use here as well because this
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is an area that learners sometimes find difficult  and often make mistakes with so the most common
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one here is to celebrate okay so when you have  a celebration or a party you are celebrating
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a particular event or milestone something very  special and important in your life or a friend
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or family member's life so usually when we have  a party so that's another verb we can use here
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we would say I'm having a party we tend to  say I'm throwing a party so this is very
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common as well to use we would say I'm throwing  a party or would you help me throw a party this
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is a very common verb to use here one mistake  that learners tend to make is to use the word
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make a party so this is very common I guess  because people tend to translate the word in their
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head from their native language but in english we  do not say we are going to make a party we would
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say we are going to have a party or we are going  to throw a party and you might even say that you
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are going to host a party so these are the verbs  that we tend to use with celebrations and parties
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so next we're going to look at some phrases that  we tend to use with celebrations and these can
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be quite funny they are quite interesting and  they are ones that natives use so one that we
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could start with is have the time of your life  so if you attend a party that is really amazing
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you could have the time of your life meaning that  you are having a great time you are having the
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best time there is no better time than you have  had than at this party we often tend to say also
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that we are going to let our hair down so if you  go to a party you're going to let your hair down
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it means that you're going to completely relax  and enjoy yourself you're not going to think about
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anything else you're not going to think about your  work you're not going to think about what happened
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that day you're going to completely let your hair  down let loose and enjoy the event you might also
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hear native say that they are going to have a  night out on the town so this is a phrase that we
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use a lot in britain and I'm sure they use it in  america as well but we would say if we are going
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out with friends we are having a night out on the  town we are going to even paint the town red as
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well is quite an interesting phrase that natives  use meaning that they are going to have an amazing
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time they are not going to have a caring the world  and they are going to go out and enjoy themselves
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when you're at a party you might also hear someone  say I'm having a ball you might even say to them
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oh are you enjoying yourself and they might say  to you I'm having a ball and by that they mean
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that they are really enjoying themselves they  are having a whale of a time which is another
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phrase that natives tend to use as well and all  of these mean that people are having a good time
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at a party they are really enjoying themselves  today we are learning all about celebration
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okay so now we are going to take a bit of a deeper  look and focus more on parties and in particular
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words or expressions short phrases that have the  word party in them and are related to parties or
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celebrations so the first one that we're going  to look at is party animal do you know what a
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party animal is maybe you are one yourself so  a party animal is usually an outgoing person
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someone that really enjoys going to parties  however maybe you might be the opposite maybe
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you're a bit of a party pooper have you heard  this term before it's really quite a funny one
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but what it means is someone that's a party pooper  is someone that maybe is a bit negative in a
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party or a social event and they might ruin the  fun a little bit to take that phrase even further
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some people might be a wet blanket so usually this  phrase is used to describe someone who is maybe a
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bit gloomy who kind of spoils the fun for everyone  by being a bit negative so maybe if you're out
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with your friends and someone is being negative  about the situation or not enjoying themselves
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and trying to spoil the fun for everyone you  might say to them stop being a wet blanket
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and a bit similar to a party animal someone  that is the life and soul of the party
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really is that someone that enjoys parties enjoys  socializing and really gets around and is quite
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funny and just someone that you remember at a  party that is the life and soul of the party
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some other words and phrases related to parties  some people might even gate crash a party
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have you heard this term before so you might know  the film the wedding crashes with vince vaughn and
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owen wilson and what they tend to do is crash  weddings and in the uk we use this term a gate
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crasher I think they do in america as well but  if you particularly gate crash weddings then you
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might be called a wedding crusher but you could  gate crush any party and what that means is that
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you're not actually invited to that party so it's  kind of like imagining someone crushing the gates
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they wouldn't literally do it but they  find a way to somehow sneak into the party
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and enjoy themselves as well so if a party is  in full swing it means that it's really getting
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going lots of people are there now everyone is  dancing and enjoying themselves so it's probably
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been going on for a little while already and  now it's really getting going the party is in
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full swing everyone's enjoying themselves there's  lots of people there now if you break up the party
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or the party breaks up it's another way of  describing that it has ended maybe it ended
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naturally maybe people started to slowly go home  or maybe there was an incident there and maybe the
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authorities have come in to break up the party and  it has suddenly ended it's important to also know
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that you can have a fancy dress party so in the uk  this is what we would call it a fancy dress party
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but in america they would say it's a costume party  so this is where you dress up usually people have
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these kinds of parties for halloween especially  so you would choose a particular character to
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attend as so you would dress up as that person  or as that character to attend a fancy dress or a
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costume party some other parties as well in the uk  we would have a hen party and a stag party or sad
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do we would say so that's an area where you can  use the word do and what this is is usually before
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a couple get married they have a party they have a  night out with their friends so maybe a night out
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on the town and hens are the female so it's the  female party you'd have a hen party if you're the
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woman and the men would go on a stag party and in  america they would call this a bachelor party and
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a bachelorette party another word or another way  to describe a party that's also interesting and
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good to note here is more of an american one so  they tend to use the word shower so when you think
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of the word shower you probably think when you  go and have a wash maybe you've been at the gym
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or maybe you like to have your shower in the  morning or sometimes we talk about this when
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we refer to a rain shower if it's raining quite  lightly and it sort of comes and goes very quickly
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we might use this word however in america  they tend to say bridal shower and baby shower
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so these kinds of parties are typical before a  wedding so although you might have a hen party
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or a bachelorette party they tend to also throw  a bridal shower and also before someone has a
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baby so when a woman is pregnant they will throw  a baby shower for that person as well which is
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a party where people will come along and you know  usually have some sort of finger foods and drinks
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and you would bring that person some gifts you  would give them some presents so this is another
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interesting word for party as well and finally  some other things that people might say at a party
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is first of all they might say I'm a bit late  to the party and while this can be literal you
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might actually be late to a party this is an  expression that's used outside of parties and
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celebrations as well so if you're with friends and  you're finding out some information a little bit
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later than everyone else you might say oh I'm late  to the party it seems that I'm late to the party
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because you weren't aware of this information  and you're kind of like the last one finding
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out this information and finally we have the  expression party as if there's no tomorrow
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so this literally means imagine that the world  didn't exist tomorrow or we weren't on this planet
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tonight you are going to party as if there's no  tomorrow so thinking of all the expressions that
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we've previously looked at in this lesson those  would apply here where you are going to paint the
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town red where you're going to let your hair down  and when you're really going to enjoy yourself
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so in this lesson we've really looked at some  expressions that natives use some real life
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expressions and if you haven't already  checked it out I highly recommend this
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if you are arranging a party or if you are  watching tv and movies you can now understand
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these types of expressions for celebrations  and parties a lot better and I will see you
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guys in the next lesson so take care neither  will actually speak like my friend street stan
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yeah man I'd say like gotta wanna gonna have  to so maybe you already know about those ones
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so let's look at a couple more examples that  might be a bit more surprising for you turn
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