Party Food and Drinks: Essential English for Buying for a Party

Planning a get-together with friends? This story will teach you how to talk about buying for a party in English. You'll learn vocabulary for party food and drinks, so you're ready for any social event.

Suggestions to use the material:

This time, you can start by reading and listening to the text at the same time. Then, you can try reading aloud a couple of times. After that, you can listen to the audio sentence by sentence and say the words imitating the rhythm and the intonation in English. Finally, you can summarize the ideas you can remember from the text. Do this in writing or speaking.

Text 4 - Buying for a Party

Listen to the text

Today is Daniel's birthday party, and he needs to buy some special things. He walks past the produce aisle to the bakery. He buys a big, round cake with chocolate frosting. It costs twenty-five dollars. He then goes to the drinks section. He puts six bottles of soda in his cart. He also buys a small bottle of juice. Next, he goes to the chip aisle. He buys two big bags of potato chips. He sees some colorful balloons. He decides to buy a red balloon, a blue balloon, and a yellow balloon. He now has a cake, drinks, chips, and balloons for the party.

Exercises

Vocabulary & Comprehension

1. Fill in the blanks with the correct number:

1. Daniel buys a cake that costs _________ dollars.

2. He buys _________ bottles of soda.

3. He buys _________ bags of potato chips.

2. What does Daniel buy for the party?

1. Write down all the items he buys from the story.

Grammar

3. Fix the mistake:

1. Daniel buy a big, round cake.

2. He buys two big bag of potato chips.

3. He see some colorful balloons.

Personalization & Speaking

4. Answer the questions:

1. What are two things you buy when you go to a party?

2. What is your favorite kind of cake?

Answer Key

Fill in the blanks with the correct number: A-twenty-five / B-six / C-two

What does Daniel buy for the party? A-A cake, bottles of soda, a bottle of juice, bags of potato chips, and balloons.

Fix the mistake: A-Daniel buys a big, round cake / B-He buys two big bags of potato chips / C-He sees some colorful balloons.