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Oh wow, Rory, your office is a mess!
Yeah, I know, I had a party at the weekend and my house still hasn't recovered.
Ah. You have a party...
a party... a Rory's party...
yeah! Mmhmm! Let's talk about parties!
It's my party and I've got fine wine too.
Do you like parties?
Not as much as I used to.
As I get older, I find myself less and less inclined to go to big events like that.
I just don't like the noise, and it's a lot of effort when you could have just as much fun with a smaller gathering of friends, or even just one or two of them.
What sort of parties do you like?
Honestly, I prefer small ones with just a few friends these days.
That limits the extent of the cleanup operation afterward. I say this, of course, and then every now and then I throw a bash for my birthday or some other milestone.
Have you ever organized a party?
I have indeed. I put together everything for a few going away parties before I left my old job, and my birthdays as an adult.
I wouldn't say I did a particularly good job of them, but I did organize them.
How often did you have parties when you were a child?
Not that often. Er, we had people over to play, but I think parties were largely limited to birthdays, and occasionally Mum and Dad would throw something for their work friends.
Will you have more parties in the future?
I've been meaning to have another big one my friends but I haven't quite got around to doing it yet.
Maybe just after the summer when we're all together again and I've finished the major alterations to my house.
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See you soon! Yeah guys, now we talk about birthday parties, wedding parties, you know, just like usual Friday party.
every day could be a party, so any party you want.
Like you get together with some friends, it's already a party.
But also you can talk about some special parties like what do you call a party for boys before a wedding.
A stag party? Yeah, a stag party.
Or a hen party for ladies before the woman gets married.
Only for I don't know much about that because I've never had or been to a stager hen party Yeah, but you must have seen some crazy stack parties British people your people Organized in let's say Budapest For example, Amsterdam, I've heard what people in my country get up to and I disavow everything they've done Yeah, yeah, listen if you see a group of rowdy men doing all sorts of crazy things perhaps they're British.
It's not just the men, the women are just as bad.
Oh yeah, women are even more horrible.
You can say that I love parties.
I am a party animal.
Or, you can say that these days I'm less inclined to go to big events.
So, as I get older, you know, I'm 30 years old, so I find myself less inclined to go to parties, so I don't like parties as much as I used to.
I don't like the noise.
Or you can say I love the noise, I love a good party.
Or you can say I prefer a small gathering of friends.
So, a party is a gathering, So you get together with your friends.
You can call it a get together.
Also like don't think that a party should always be a big party.
It could be anything.
You have your three friends.
So there are three of you.
It's already a party or even with like two of you.
Or maybe you're alone and it's a party.
Yeah... Maybe you're alone and you're just crazy.
Yeah, you know. I have a party with my cat or my dog, with my fish.
I prefer small parties or I prefer big parties.
I prefer birthday parties or wedding parties or there are different kinds of parties, surprise parties, garden parties, maybe you like cocktail parties, tea parties, oh tea parties are my favorite, tea parties.
dear listener! Maybe you enjoy your dances and costume parties.
When everyone wears a mask or a costume, it's called a fancy dress party, so maybe you enjoy this ones.
Then pool parties, oh, nice!
I love a good pool party, so a party by the pool.
Or maybe graduation parties dear listener when you finish school or graduate from a university you have a graduation party.
Also there are parties which are called showers, for example a baby shower.
Roy, what's a baby shower?
Is that just a celebration of when someone finds out they're having a baby?
Yeah, for example your friend is having a baby, so they are throwing a baby shower.
So the woman, and her future baby, and everybody comes in with presents, yay.
These days gender reveal party is a very common type of party where the gender of a future baby, no, a future baby, of the baby is revealed.
So you can you find out is it a boy or a girl house warming party Dylissena you move house and you have a house warming party farewell party oh gosh so many parties yeah pre -party and after party how many kinds of parties are there so there is a pre -party then there is a party and after party so Dylissena choose whatever you enjoy.
The cleanup operation is our afterparty, usually.
So you have your friends over and then you clean up.
Or you hire someone to clean up.
What does it mean if I throw a bash?
Just throw a party.
Yep. A birthday bash.
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We throw a party or we organize a party.
But usually we say like, have a party or throw a party, meaning to have a party.
Or you can say a bash, meaning a party.
Have a bash? Have a party.
So you can say, oh, I usually throw a bash for my birthday.
I put together everything for the party.
So I've bought food, I've hired some waiters maybe, I've sent out invitations, I left my old job and had a party.
A leaving party. Yeah, it was like a farewell party, a leaving party, goodbye party.
Or, you can say that I've hired some people and they organized the party for me, so I had my party organized.
When you have a party, you have people over, so you invite them over to your place.
You can say, oh I had a big, massive, oh I had a nice birthday party and I had all my friends over.
I had them round to my place.
And we throw parties for our friends, for our colleagues.
If you are planning to organize a party but you haven't done it yet, you can say I haven't quite got round to doing it.
So to get round to doing something, like to do it.
or I've been meaning to have yeah I've been meaning to have a party but I haven't had it yet but kind of it's on my list so I've been meaning to have a party soon I haven't organized it yet or I haven't got enough time to do it I I haven't got around to doing it.
And now, Rory's vocabulary party.
Yes, it's the part of the episode where I ask Maria questions about the grammar and vocabulary I used in the episode.
You can follow along.
So, Maria. The first question was, do I like parties?
And I did say I preferred to have smaller parties, but I didn't say smaller parties.
What did I say? Gatherings.
Yes. And then we talked about the sort of parties that I like.
And I explained I preferred these smaller gatherings, but there was a reason why.
There was something that was much less of a problem if the party was smaller.
But what was that? The problem is the cleanup operation after the party.
Yes. Or we could just say the cleanup.
Then Maria asked me if I'd ever organised a party and I talked about a specific kind of party when you are leaving a place.
Going away party. Hey!
And then you asked how often I had parties when I was a child and I said that my parents would have parties for their colleagues at work.
But I didn't say have parties.
What did I say? Throw parties!
Ah, excellent. Then you asked me about parties I plan I want to have in the future.
And I said I want to have another big one, but I didn't say I want to have. That's too simple.
What is the complex grammar that I used here?
I've been meaning to have a party for a long time.
Woo, it's present, perfect, continuous.
I also said I haven't quite got round to doing it, which I think is a mixture of perfect tense But also as future.
Oh my god, it's so advanced.
I even I can't name what that is That's your bonus question Maria.
I said I haven't quite got round to doing it yet.
What grammar is that?
Well, this is present perfect Rory.
Well what round to doing it?
Yeah, it's present perfect But it's ING.
Yes! Do you know what it is though?
It's 2 and ING. And we almost never have that.
Yeah, it's like to get around to doing something.
Yes, that's a good one to highlight.
It's a set phrase. So this is where, if you're more advanced you need to be very careful, because usually we use 2 or ING.
But here we're using both.
Oh wow. and i have a party joke.
oh god. what's the best way to remember your wife's birthday?
forget it once. yeah and then you never hear the end of it.
yeah that's a good one so if you are married and if you forget your wife's birthday.
that's it you're done that's it that's that's end of your life, okay?
Because, like... if you forget a woman's birthday...
Feel like if you forget anyone's birthday you're in trouble.
Yeah so the joke is like what's the best way to remember when your wife's birthday is?
Just, you forget it once and then...
Then that's the end!
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Do you like parties?
Not as much as I used to.
As I get older I find myself less and less inclined to go to big events like that.
I just don't like the noise and it's a lot of effort when you could have just as much fun with a smaller gathering of friends or even just one or two of them.
What sort of parties do you like?
Honestly I prefer small ones with just a few friends these days.
That limits the extent of the clean -up operation afterward. I say this of course and then every now and then I throw a bash for my birthday or some other milestone.
Have you ever organised a party?
I have indeed. I put together everything for a few going -away parties before I left my old job and my birthdays as an adult.
I wouldn't say I did a particularly good job of them, but I did organise them.
How often did you have parties when you were a child?
Not that often. We had people over to play, but I think parties were largely limited to birthdays, and occasionally mum and dad would throw something for their work friends.
Will you have more parties in the future?
I've been meaning to have another big one with my friends but I haven't quite got around to doing it yet.
Maybe just after the summer when we were all together again and I've finished the major alterations to my house.
