Celebration, ceremony and anniversary are three nouns with similar meanings.

In today’s programme, Yang Li and William Kremer give specific examples about how to each word appropriately.

Sometimes you can use them together to describe an event. Look at the following example:

"I work for the BBC’s international charity and last week we had a celebration for the tenth anniversary of the charity. So we had a little ceremony to celebrate it together."

In this programme you can hear a lot more examples to get a thorough understanding of how to use these three commonly used words.

If you have a question about English, email our team at questions.chinaelt@bbc.co.uk. We may answer it in this programme.

Glossary 詞匯

specific 具體的

appropriately 得體地

celebration 慶祝

ceremony 儀式

anniversary 周年紀(jì)念

event 活動

thorough 透徹的