LISTENING

A. Read the lyrics to a famous holiday song. Complete the

lyrics using some of the words in the box. There are extra

words. Then listen and check your answers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNP5yqg7hc

We're all going on a summer holiday

No more (1) _working_ for a week or two

Fun and (2) _laugther_ on our summer holiday

No more (3) _worries_ for me or you

For a week or two

We're going where the sun shines (4) _brightly_

We're going where the sea is (5) _blue_

We've all seen it on the (6) _movies_

Now let's see if it's (7) _true_

Everybody has a summer holiday

Doing (8) _things_ they always wanted to

So we're going on a summer holiday

To make our (9) _dreams_ come true

For me and you,

For me and you

WRITING

things parties sport dreams working TV studying brightly blue plans daily laughter worries movies games warm

true

A. Read the postcard ignoring the gaps. Are Kylie’s parents

staying in their own country or are they abroad? Give

reasons for your answer.

They are abroad because at the end of the letter Kylie’s mum says

they can’t understand much, and it can be becthey are the people

don’t speak the same language.

Dear Kylie,

Hope everything is OK at home. We (1)’re having___ (have) a brilliant time! We (2) ____stay_______ (stay) in a really nice hotel in the city centre. Yesterday we (3) _went__________ (go) to a famous art gallery in the morning and after lunch we (4) ___walked______ (walk) around the city and (5) __had__________ (have) dinner in a traditional restaurant.

At the moment we (6) _are sitting___ (sit) in a little café near the river. It’s very pretty. There (7) __is________ (be) a big park the other side of the river. It’s very green. There (8) ___are_________ (be) lots of flowers too.

We usually (9) ___have______ (have) a drink in the hotel bar in the evenings. Sometimes we (10) ___watch______ (watch) TV but we can’t understand much!

See you next Saturday!

Love Mum

B. Complete the postcard. Write the correct form of the verbs

in brackets.

C. Write a postcard to a friend. Imagine you’re on holiday in a

city in another country.

First plan your postcard.

What kind of a time are you having?

Where are you staying?

What did you do yesterday?

Where are you at the moment?

What are you doing at the moment?

What is the city like?

What do you usually do in the afternoons or evenings?

Write your postcard.

Hello, I wish you are having a good time in Cerdanyola, the

weather here is wet and it rains every hower. The hotel is little but

very confortable, and the best of it is that the hotel is near the

center.

Yesterday we went to the big ben and to the Sherlock Holmes

museum.

At the moment we’re resting in the hotel because it’s raining

again.

See you in September.

Davo