IE1 - Birthday

w2 - ss3
Speaking Task

Ask and answer the following questions with

your partner.

1. When is your birthday?

2. Do you enjoy celebrating your birthday?
3. What gifts do you hope to get on your next birthday?
4. Who do you usually spend your birthdays with?
5. What birthdays are important in your country?
2. Do you enjoy celebrating your
birthday?
• everyone, regardless their age, deserves to have a meaningful
birthday celebration not only to mark another milestone of their life
but to share wishes and happiness with their beloved ones.
• in most recent memory...
• Yes, I do love them. There is so much fun associated with birthdays. ...
• Not really, when I'm getting older and older, that's not kind of fun. It’s
simply another day like any other day in the year.
• I usually am not a very big birthday fan.
3.What gifts do you hope to get on your
next birthday?
• Of course I appreciate all gifts, but if I could choose, I would prefer ...
since/as ... these really help with ...
• To be honest, I don’t enjoy when my mother/my friend gives/offers
me...
4. Who do you usually spend your
birthdays with?

• When I was a kid, family members and ffriends used to gather for my
special day...but now only ...
5. What birthdays are important in your
country?
• Generally speaking, it's a child's first birthday...
• Personally I think every stage of a human’s life is destined for some
specific activities and purposes.Therefore, we consider all phases of
life with equal significance. Yet, if I had to pick one, 18 would be my
choice since it is a turning point which signals maturity, opening a
new chapter in one’s journey.
Activities
• have some sort of gathering with our immediate family
• go out with drinks for an evening on the town or have a get together
with drinks involved at home
• children usually have a large party with family and friends.
• throw a party with birthday cake which could be varied in shapes and
flavors
• we enjoy some drinks and some fine food
• get dressed up and be all fancy, all good-lookin’