SUMMER MEMORIES

Let's have a chat about our last summer holidays. Remember we will have to use past tenses. 

Ex.  Last summer I met  a lot of new people. 

Draw your hand on your notebook to help you talk about last summer.

Thumb: Tell us something special you did
Index finger: Describe the places you visited
Middle finger: Talk about a bad experience you had
Ring finger: Talk about the people you met 
Little finger: Tell us something you wanted to do but you couldn't

 



Add your comments: Write what your partner told you about his/her summer. 

Listen to a boy and a girl telling their friends about their summer. 

Before listening, go through some vocabulary: 

 Match the words and expressions from the song with the correct synonyms or meanings:

to have a blast	lines of stitching, usually on clothes
to drift away	to move away, to float off (figurative)
a cramp	to struggle, to resist
damp	draw attention behaving proudly
to splash around	to kiss, to touch sexually
show off	to have a good time
you don’t gotta brag	torn, broken
to stroll	a boring, annoying person
a fling	(slang, informal) money
to put up a fight	to throw a liquid, ex. water
to make out	a love affair, relationship (not a serious one)
a vow	a promise
a drag	(slang, informal) you mustn’t boast, speak proudly
dough	a muscle contraction
ripped	to walk
seams	wet

 Now listen and check meanings in context: 

 

 

 

Now check your answers

 

1.      to have a blast    f	a.       lines of stitching, usually on clothes
2.      to drift away   b	b.      to move away, to float off (figurative)
3.      a cramp   n	c.       to struggle, to resist
4.      damp    p	d.      draw attention behaving proudly
5.      to splash around   j	e.      to kiss, to touch sexually
6.      show off    d	f.       to have a good time
7.      you don’t gotta brag  m	g.       torn, broken
8.      to stroll   o	h.      a boring, annoying person
9.      a fling   k	i.        (slang, informal) money
10.    to put up a fight   c	j.        to throw a liquid, ex. water
11.    to make out    e	k.       a love affair, relationship (not a serious one)
12.    a vow   l	l.        a promise
13.    a drag   h	m.     (slang, informal) you mustn’t boast, speak proudly
14.    dough    i	n.      a muscle contraction
15.    ripped   g	o.      to walk
16.    seams    a	p.      wet

 

Do you remember words that rhyme in the song?

Example:  Arcade - lemonade

blast  

bowlin'  

brag 

 cramp  

day(s)  

dock  

dreams 

 drowned 

eighteen

 ends 

 far 

 fling 

 hand 

 heat 

 me 

 sight 

 spend 

 sun 

 vow

Write the past simple and past participle of these verbs used in the song. How many regular verbs can you find?:

to be ________       ________

to do ________     ________

to drink ________     ________

to drown ________     ________

 to get ________     ________

 to go ________      ________

to happen ________     ________

 to have ________     ________

to make ________     ________

to meet ________    ________

 to save ________     ________

to show ________     ________

 to stay ________     ________

 to swim________     ________

 to take ________      ________

to tell ________      ________

to turn ________     ________

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Part of this worksheet was taken from © Tune into English 2010 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Past Simple activity written by Prof. Elena Salvetti, Breno (BS)