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Celebrating Special Occasions: Weddings & Birthdays

1) The document summarizes different types of special occasions including small English and big Asian weddings, childhood birthday parties, and a recent 40th birthday party. 2) A small English wedding involved about 100 guests at a church ceremony, followed by a party of 80 people and then a honeymoon in Edinburgh. 3) A big Asian wedding spanned 5 days and cities with 300 guests, 3 wedding cakes, 6 large meals, and traditional Indian wedding attire for the bride and groom. 4) Childhood birthday parties described included a memorable 7th birthday in Scotland with a chocolate cake, games, dancing and good times with friends wearing favorite dresses. 5) A recent 40th

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Celebrating Special Occasions: Weddings & Birthdays

1) The document summarizes different types of special occasions including small English and big Asian weddings, childhood birthday parties, and a recent 40th birthday party. 2) A small English wedding involved about 100 guests at a church ceremony, followed by a party of 80 people and then a honeymoon in Edinburgh. 3) A big Asian wedding spanned 5 days and cities with 300 guests, 3 wedding cakes, 6 large meals, and traditional Indian wedding attire for the bride and groom. 4) Childhood birthday parties described included a memorable 7th birthday in Scotland with a chocolate cake, games, dancing and good times with friends wearing favorite dresses. 5) A recent 40th

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  • Unit 7: A Special Occasion Video Script

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Unit 7 A special occasion Again, we ate a lot of food, we had another cake, and we
enjoyed ourselves a lot.
Part 1 A small English wedding
The final event, the fifth ceremony, was a small dinner with
Becky: We got married last year, in December 2009.
my husband’s family and my family, and that was just as well
because we were very very tired by then.

Stuart: We got married in a church in Oxford.


There were about 100 people there and the ceremony took
Part 3 A memorable childhood birthday
about an hour.
party
I don’t celebrate my birthday much any more.
Becky: I wore a long, white wedding dress.
I might go out for dinner with some friends or my family, but I
My bridesmaids wore navy blue dresses, and Stuart wore a
remember when I was a child my parties were really really
black suit.
exciting and I always looked forward to them.
After the ceremony we went to a restaurant where we had a
party with about 80 people. I remember my seventh birthday party was one of the best.
The party finished at about five o’clock and we left and went
It was an important birthday for me because it was the first
straight on our honeymoon.
birthday I had in Scotland because we moved from Canada to
We went on honeymoon to Edinburgh.
Scotland the year before.

My birthday’s in June, and I remember that it wasn’t raining


Part 2 A big Asian wedding and it always rained in Scotland.

Maleeha: I met my husband in 2006. We both worked in the I invited four friends from school and I remember we all wore
same hospital, but we met in a restaurant. our favourite dresses.

When I got married there were five different ceremonies, over We ate snacks like sandwiches and sausage rolls, and my
five days, in two different cities, Manchester and London, and mum made a chocolate cake and I remember I blew out the
there were about 300 people at the wedding. candles.

I had three wedding cakes, and we ate about six large meals. Afterwards there were lots of activities.

The first event was the Registry wedding where I wore a white We played games and danced a lot.
dress and a tiara.
I remember having a really good time.
And then after that it was the Mehendi ceremony, which is
where the bride has henna applied to her hands and feet.
Part 4 A recent birthday party
The third event was the biggest, and that was the wedding
ceremony, the wedding party itself. Recently it was my fortieth birthday and I celebrated it with
all my friends, which was brilliant.
I wore a traditional Indian dress called a lehnga, which is an
embroidered top and an embroidered skirt, with a very very Because I was born in 1970 I decided to have a 1970s party.
heavy scarf. So lots of my friends dressed up in 1970s clothes.
I also wore heavy gold jewellery, ten bangles, and big I wore a dress that was from 1970.
earrings and a big necklace.
I bought it in a retro market in Rome and it was long and
My husband wore a traditional long top and trousers orange and it had orange chiffon sleeves.
underneath embroidered with gold.
We ate 1970s food. I played 1970s music, lots of disco and
And he also wore a hat called a turban, which was very soul and that kind of thing.
heavy.
I had a cake. My sister arranged for somebody to make a cake
We then went to Manchester for the fourth ceremony. and it was a 1970s cake with big platform shoes on top and
Video script
‘Happy Birthday Carolyn’.
I think the party went really well. Lots of people dressed up.
Lots of people danced.

I think everyone had a good time.

The party wasn’t on the actual day of my birthday, it was a


couple of days before.

On my birthday I was in Italy, and I decided to bounce across


the Ponte Vecchio in Florence on my 1970s Space Hopper to
celebrate.

Video script Unit 7 A special occasion Part 1 A small English wedding Becky: We got married last year, in December
Video script ‘Happy Birthday Carolyn’. I think the party went really well. Lots of people dressed up. Lots of people

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