When children meet after summer holidays, they like talking about them.
1) Clare and Paul are talking about their summer holidays.
Where did Clare and Paul spend their holidays? What did they do?
Clare: Did you go to a summer camp?
Paul: No, 1 didn’t. I stayed at home.
Clare: Poor Paul. These are not holidays.
Paul: But I really had a great time.
Clare: What did you do?
Paul: I swam in the river, played tennis and visited my friends. And how did you spend your summer holidays?
Clare: In August we went on a trip to Brighton*. It was really exciting. I had a lot of fun there.
2) Answer Clare’s and Paul’s questions.
On p. 11 there are some children’s stories about their summer holidays.
1) What did Jack, William and Emily do in summer? Complete their stories with the verbs from the box in the correct form.
Grammar for Revision
The Past Simple Tense Regular and irregular verbs
Правильные и неправильные глаголы в прошедшем простом времени
want
wanted
didn’t want
ride
rode
didn’t ride
be
was/were
wasn’t/weren’t
play ride watch want be (2) do have go swim
fish help see visit like
2) Did you spend your summer holidays in the same way? What did you do? What didn’t you do?
— I helped my parents, too.
— I didn’t go to the camp either.