Party time

"De fiesta"
Spanish B1 writing exercise

Practise El Futuro Simple, El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto and El Subjuntivo to express wishes, probability and to give negative commands.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to plan", "to include", "guests", "DJ" and "to convince".

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I'll have about thirty guests at my party next Sunday. I still don't know where so many people are going to fit. I hope they will bring me some presents, because I will turn 40 and it will be a very special birthday. Until now I had never organized a big party but my best friends, Bea and Julia, convinced me. I had planned a quiet weekend without many celebrations but after telling them my boring plan they said to me: Don't be silly! Let's organise a great party! We started to make a list where we included, among many other things, quite a lot of drinks and a DJ who will play for us for 100 pounds. Javier, who I met a few months ago, may come. I invited him and I hope he shows up The bad thing about the party is that I will have to do quite a lot of overtime this month in order to pay for everything.

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