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

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