Learn: costumes, sound systems, revellers, downpours
One of the world’s largest street music festivals has taken place in London.
Around sixty bands in colourful costumes took part in the Notting Hill Carnival. Thirty-eight sound systems entertained the crowds.
Revellers at the annual event donned raincoats and held umbrellas as west London was hit by downpours.
More than a million people are believed to have attended the event across its two days.
Vocabulary
costumes
clothes worn for a certain type of activity
sound systems
electrical equipment used to play music, recordings and announcements
revellers
people at a party or celebration
donned
put on (clothes)
downpours
heavy rain showers