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Vocabulary: Planning a Class Party

Planning a class party

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20 Minutes
Level A1 10 Target Words

🎉 Planning a Class Party

Learn essential vocabulary and sentences to organize a fun party with your classmates!

💡 How to use this lesson

For Teacher

• Use this 20-minute lesson to teach class party words.

• Let students work alone or in pairs, then check answers together.

For Learner

• First, read the word table and say each word out loud.

• Next, complete the practice tasks and record your voice in the shadowing section.

📚 Word table

Study the 10 party words below. Click the speaker button to hear each word!

Theme 1

🍿 Party Food

Word Meaning Common collocations Example sentence Memory tip
crisps small thin salty potato slices eat crisps, salty crisps I eat salty crisps at parties. "Crisp" sounds crunchy like potato chips!
jelly soft sweet fruit food red jelly, fruit jelly She likes cold fruit jelly. Jelly wiggles on your plate!
soda a sweet cold drink with bubbles drink soda, cold soda We drink cold soda today. Soda has bubbles that go "pop"!
candy sweet food made with sugar sweet candy, party candy Kids love sweet party candy. Say "candy", think "can I have one?"
Theme 2

🎈 Party Things

Word Meaning Common collocations Example sentence Memory tip
streamer long paper ribbon for party paper streamer, hang streamers Hang paper streamers on walls. Streamers flow like a small stream!
tablecloth cloth to cover a table put on a tablecloth, clean tablecloth Put the blue tablecloth on. Table + cloth = cover for your table!
trumpet a metal musical instrument play the trumpet, loud trumpet He plays a loud trumpet. Trumpet sounds like "Toot toot"!
Theme 3

📝 Party Plans

Word Meaning Common collocations Example sentence Memory tip
theme main idea for a party party theme, choose a theme Pick a fun party theme! Think: the team picks the theme.
playlist list of songs for party music playlist, party playlist Make a good party playlist. Play + list = list of songs to play!
choose pick what you want choose music, choose food We choose the best food. Choose has two 'o's like looking at two choices!

✏️ Practice

Complete the 16 tasks below to practice your new party words.

Part 1 Collocation Matrix

Select the correct word on the right to complete each collocation.

1. drink ___

____ a. theme ____ b. streamer ____ c. soda ____ d. playlist

2. the main ___

____ a. theme ____ b. playlist ____ c. soda ____ d. streamer

3. add songs to the ___

____ a. soda ____ b. theme ____ c. streamer ____ d. playlist

4. paper ___

____ a. soda ____ b. streamer ____ c. playlist ____ d. theme

Part 2 Gap-Fill Dialogues

Type the missing word from the Word Bank into each blank.

📦 Word Bank:

choose crisps candy tablecloth

5. Dialogue 1:

A: What snacks do we have?

B: We have salty ____ and cold soda.

6. Dialogue 2:

A: Can you help me with the table?

B: Sure, let's put the red ____ on it.

7. Dialogue 3:

A: Which game do you want?

B: Let us ____ the fun balloon game.

8. Sentence:

Do you want a piece of fruit ____ after dinner?

Part 3 Choose the Word

Choose the option that best fits the meaning of the sentence.

9. Please hang the colorful ___ on the wall.

____ a. playlist ____ b. streamer ____ c. crisps

10. The boy plays a loud song on his ___.

____ a. trumpet ____ b. crisps ____ c. tablecloth

11. We need a cold drink, so bring some ___.

____ a. jelly ____ b. theme ____ c. soda

12. The ___ of our Friday party is sea animals.

____ a. jelly ____ b. theme ____ c. streamer

Part 4 Sentence Building

Unscramble the words to build a correct sentence.

Words to arrange:

likes fruit She jelly.

13. Type the full sentence:

____ (Type here...)

Words to arrange:

party fast Make playlist a

14. Type the full sentence:

____ (Type here...)

Words to arrange:

red We streamer. choose the

15. Type the full sentence:

____ (Type here...)

Words to arrange:

the eat party They at crisps

16. Type the full sentence:

____ (Type here...)

🎙️ Shadowing

Listen to each phrase or sentence, then record your voice to practice pronunciation!

Collocation 1
party theme

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Collocation 2
drink cold soda

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Collocation 3
play the trumpet

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Collocation 4
green paper streamer

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Sentence 1
We choose a fun party theme.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Sentence 2
Put the tablecloth on the table.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Sentence 3
Make a great playlist now.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Sentence 4
Children love to eat sweet candy.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Extra Sentence 1
She likes cold fruit jelly.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Extra Sentence 2
We buy food for our party.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Hard Word Focus 1
crisps

[Bài tập luyện nói]

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Hard Word Focus 2
trumpet

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

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