Holidays
What is the best time for schoolchildren? Holidays, of course!
Autumn, winter, spring and definitely summer holidays. These are
the times when you can forget about homework, school and
teachers.
Usually autumn holidays are not very exciting. The weather is
getting worse, it"s raining and you don"t have much opportunity
to walk outside for a long time. During autumn holidays my
friends and I usually spend time at each other"s places playing
computer games.
Winter holidays are much more interesting! I like skating and my
family usually goes to the skating rink in a nearby park.
Sometimes my friends and I go outside the city to the ski lodge.
We rent skis and go cross-country skiing in the forest. Just
before the New Year"s Day a big fir tree is set in our park. It
is decorated with garlands and large toys. Ice hills are also
made in the park. I like going to the park with my younger
sister and my friends. At New Year"s night my family usually
goes outside. My father and I make a fireworks display. My
mother always says that it is dangerous, but we all know that
she likes our fireworks. We also congratulate everyone who we
meet with the New Year and they congratulate us back. I like it
that people are so kind during this holiday!
The longest term is behind and spring holidays come. It is
getting warm every day, streams are flowing in the streets. It
is fun, but you should be careful not to slip on the spring ice
and fall in a puddle! I walk with my friends, go to the cinema,
ride a bike or roller-skate.
At last summer has come! The books have been taken back to the
library, now other children will use them next year. Summer is
my favourite season. I can wear only a T-shirt, jeans or shorts
and light trainers or flip-flops. I have three months of rest
which I can devote to myself and to my friends. During the first
two weeks of summer holidays my family and I go to some resort.
We have already been to Turkey and Egypt and this year we are
going to Spain. We like sunbathing and swimming in the sea. I
wish we could do this all year round!
Then we go back to the city and my sister and I go to our
grandparents" country house. It is not worse than holidays at
the sea. Our country house is rather far from our city - about
two and a half hours by car. But it is worth going there anyway.
I take a bike and a games console with me. I meet my friends
there. I see some of them every day at school and I don"t see
others for the whole year, so I have an opportunity to meet them
again and catch up. We ride bikes, sunbathe on the river bank,
swim in the river and communicate with each other.
I wish holidays were all year round!
ПЛАН-ОТВЕТ. HOLIDAYS
1. Вступление (What is the best time for schoolchildren?
Holidays, of course! Autumn, winter, spring and definitely
summer holidays. These are the tunes when you can forget about
homework, school and teachers.).
2. Рассказать о школьных каникулах и о том, чем обычно
занимаются во время них (autumn holidays: not very exciting,
weather getting worse, my friends and I...; winter holidays:
much more interesting; I like...; my family...; New Year"s Day;
spring holidays: the longest term; it is getting warm; streams;
I walk with my friends/go to the cinema/ride a
bike/roller-skate, etc.; summer holidays: I can wear...; three
months; my family and I...; this year we...; Then...; country
house; meet my friends, etc.).
3. Заключение (I wish holidays were all year round!).
QUESTIONS
1. What are holidays?
2. What school holidays are there in Russia?
3. What are your favourite holidays?
4. When are autumn holidays?
5. What do you usually do during autumn holidays?
6. When are winter holidays?
7. What do you usually do on winter holidays?
8. Do you like winter holidays? Why (not)?
9. Are spring holidays long or short?
10. What can schoolchildren do during spring holidays?
11. What do you usually do?
12. How long are summer holidays?
13. Where do you usually spend your summer holidays?
14. Do you go with your family?
15. Do you prefer to swim in the sea or in a swimming pool?
16. What do you think of spending a holiday in a village?
17. What is better to spend holidays with the family or with
friends?
18. Have you ever been camping? if so, where?
19. Do you take any school books to revise?
20. Do you read during your holidays?
21. Do you meet any English-speaking people during your
holidays?
22. What do you think of spending your holidays learning
languages?
23. What do you think of working during your holidays?
24. What do you think of people who work in summer?
25. How do you feel when your holidays are over?
USEFUL WORDS AND PHRASES
Indoor activities Занятия в помещении
dance танцевать
listen to music слушать музыку
play board games/computer играть в настольные
games игры/компьютерные игры
read читать
study учиться
watch TV смотреть телевизор
Outdoor activities Занятия на открытом воздухе
birdwatching наблюдение за птицами
(downhill) skiing катание на горных лыжах
(ice) skating катание на коньках
(rock) climbing . скалолазание
(whitewater) rafting сплав по реке
camping идти в поход
canoeing заниматься греблей
cross-country skiing кататься на лыжах по пересе-
чённой местности
diving ныряние (дайвинг)
figure skating фигурное катание
fishing ловля рыбу
gardening садоводство
jogging бег
karting . картинг
make sandcastles строить замки из песка
paintballing пейнтбол
picnic пикник
play volleyball/football играть в волейбол/футбол
rowing гребля
sailing плавание (на яхте, на лодке)
scuba diving ныряние с аквалангом
sightseeing/doing the sights осмотр достопримечательностей
skateboarding скейтбординг
snorkeling плавание под водой с маской
snowboarding сноубординг
sunbathe загорать
surf сёрфинг
swim плавать
toboggan катание на санках
walk гулять
waterskiing катание на водных лыжах
windsurfing виндсёрфинг
zorbing зорбинг (катание/спуск со склонов внутри прозрачного
двухслойного шара «зорба»)
In my opinion, summer is the best season of the year, because all children and adults have holidays. Different people have different opinions of how to spend their holidays. Some people prefer just to rest and watch TV, others like to travel. I am fond of travelling too.
Every year my parents, my elder brother and I go to the Black Sea coast, in Sochi. We book a hotel in advance and buy train tickets. I like to go by train, look through the window and admire all the beauty of the nature.
Usually we come to the railway station early in the morning, take a taxi and go to the hotel. The registration takes a few minutes and we go to our room, take a shower and rest a little bit. So, our holidays begin.
Every morning we wake up at eight o’clock in the morning and go downstairs to the dining hall to have breakfast. After breakfast we go to the beach to sunbathe, to swim in the sea before it becomes hot. Sometimes we play beach volleyball or basketball. Then we come back to the hotel, take a shower and have dinner. After dinner we rest a little bit in our room, talk, listen to music, read. Later, we go to the seaside again.
In the evenings we usually take a walk on the pier, sometimes we go to the café or restaurant, do shopping to bring home some presents for our friends.
We always return home sunburnt and full of impressions.
По-моему мнению, лето – самое лучшее время года, потому что у всех ребят летние каникулы, а у взрослых – сезон отпусков. У разных людей разные мнения по поводу того, как проводить свой отпуск. Некоторые предпочитают просто отдыхать и смотреть телевизор – другие любят путешествовать. Я тоже предпочитаю путешествовать.
Каждый год летом мои родители, мой старший брат и я едем на Черное море, в Сочи. Мы заранее бронируем гостиницу и покупаем билеты на поезд. Мне нравится ездить на поезде, смотреть в окно и наслаждаться красотой природы.
Обычно мы приезжаем рано утром на железнодорожный вокзал, берем такси и едем в гостиницу. Регистрация занимает несколько минут, и мы идем к себе в номер, принимаем душ и немного отдыхаем. Так начинается наш отдых.
Каждый день мы встаем в 8 утра и идем вниз, в столовую, завтракать. После завтрака мы идем на пляж загорать, купаться в море до того, как станет жарко. Иногда мы играем в пляжный волейбол или баскетбол. Потом мы возвращаемся в гостиницу, принимаем душ и обедаем. После обеда мы немного отдыхаем в нашем номере, разговариваем, слушаем музыку, читаем. Позже мы снова идем на море.
По вечерам мы обычно гуляем по пирсу, иногда заходим в кафе или ресторан, делаем покупки, чтобы привезти подарки нашим друзьям.
Мы всегда возвращаемся домой загоревшими и переполненными впечатлениями.
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Having a holiday is always great fun in many ways. Firstly, people have a day off from work, secondly it’s a variety and relaxation from everyday routine. Every country has got its own public (national) and religious holidays. In our country there are ten public holidays that are observed nationwide and are official days off.
I love all kinds of holidays but most of all I admire the national traditions connected with them. My best loved holidays are the New Year with a New Year tree, Christmas with plenty of delicious food to eat and Easter with red eggs and an Easter pie. The preparation for these holidays starts long before they come. Thus about a fortnight before the New Year streets are decorated with colourful lights, the shop windows display a wide choice of New Year toys and Christmas gifts. It should be pointed out that unlike Catholic Christmas, Orthodox Christmas comes a week after the New Year and this week in Russia is called Kalyady. During the Christmas week street festivals of all kinds take place.
We are not a religious family and we don’t regularly go to church, but we respect national traditions and my grandmother always dyes eggs red and makes Christmas cakes and Easter pies.
On public holidays like the Independence Day or May Day people stay away from work or school and have a rest. There are two very special holidays in the country: the Eighth of March and the Ninth of May. On the Eighth of March women are traditionally presented with flowers and gifts and words of love and respect are addressed to them. The Ninth of May is both a happy and a sad day. On this day we celebrate our victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War and at the same time pay tribute to those who gave up their lives for the liberation of our motherland. Deep respect and warm gratitude are shown to war veterans. The day is made special by a military parade in the morning and grand fireworks at night. The look of elderly people proudly wearing numerous orders and medals cannot leave anyone unmoved, I think.
Apart from national holidays there are family holidays like birthdays, weddings and anniversaries. We have a family tradition to celebrate birthdays of each member of the family. On these days we usually have a party. Friends and relatives come with flowers and presents. A festive dinner is served with plenty of delicious food to eat, which is a famous Slavic tradition, you know. Afterwards the guests either dance or sing, listen to music or just chat. Such parties usually go late into the night and people are unwilling to leave which, frankly speaking, I don’t like. But the last celebration of my birthday was different. We had an outing on that day. My friends and I, a group of ten in all, went to the «Youth» hotel. My parents saw how happy I was and agreed that I had become a grown-up person and had the right to go out with my friends. We had barbeques in the forest, stayed for the night, in the hotel and came back home the next day. We enjoyed ourselves greatly.
Indeed, life would be dull and grey without holidays.
I think it’s hard to find a person, especially among the young, who doesn’t like holidays, as they mean rest and entertainment, when you can forget for a while about the work undone and enjoy yourself. In my view rest and recreation are as important as work.
Like other countries Russia has its own holidays. They are either of a political, social or religious kind. The New Year, the 8th of March and the Victory Day are probably the most popular national holidays in our republic. Among religious holidays that are widely observed in most families are Christmas and Easter.
National holidays are both a public celebration and a personal event in the family. Different people choose different ways of celebrating them. New Year is traditionally a family holiday with a New Year tree, plenty of delicious food, presents and good wishes.
On other holidays people either take part in public entertainments arranged in parks and squares or go to parties at somebody’s place or restaurants. My family are not an exception in our attitude to holidays and we always look forward to them and make all kinds of preparations. We observe most public holidays which are printed in red in the calendar. But the most exciting for me are the New Year, Christmas, Easter and the Women’s Day.
At the same time every family has some holidays which are a special event only for them. They are usually anniversaries, birthdays and weddings. I love our family holidays and I think I loved them even more when I was a child. I was thrilled when all the relatives and most of the friends got together, dressed up and smiling, and they brought presents, danced and sang songs. On the eve of the party the house was given a big clean and a lot of delicious food was cooked. The atmosphere of the coming holiday was felt and made me happy and excited. I still look forward to celebrations, though, perhaps, with less enthusiasm.
Our last family holiday was my mother’s birthday. We wanted to make it a special day, since it was her 45th birthday Mother was not very happy about her age, so we tried to do our best to cheer her up saying that she was young as ever and even looked ten years younger than her age. We had selected a nice present for her and my sister and granny had done all the cooking. The table was nicely laid up with a candle and cakes on it, the walls of the sitting-room were pinned up with mother’s photos when she was a baby, a little girl and a young woman. The party was fantastic. All the guests seemed to enjoy themselves a lot.
The only disadvantage of holidays in my opinion is that they are short or, perhaps, it’s one of their attractions. You wouldn’t enjoy things that take place every day.
Ник написал историю своих каникул в Интернет.
1) Его каникулы были интересными? Почему?
Я люблю проводить мои каникулы с моей семьёй в деревне. Я думаю, лучшие каникулы летом, потому что погода тёплая. Я купаюсь в реке и много катаюсь на велосипеде.
Я читаю книжки, потому что у меня нет времени много читать, когда я хожу в школу. И я люблю проводить время с моими родителями, бабушками и дедушками и друзьями. Мои лучшие каникулы были прошлым летом. Чудесно было поехать на машине к озеру и ловить там рыбу. Нам было очень весело, и я поймал действительно огромную рыбу. Я был счастлив. Я никогда не забуду каникулы и рыбу. Я не могу дождаться поездки в деревню следующим летом. (Ник, 10)
2) В Интернете дети отвечают на вопросы об их каникулах. На какие вопросы ответил Ник?
1. Where do you like spending holidays?
I like spending my holidays in the village.
2. Who usually goes with you?
My parents usually go with me.
3. When do you like spending holidays? Why?
I like spending holidays in summer because the weather is warm. I swim in the river and ride my bicycle a lot.
4. What do you do on holidays?
I swim in the river and ride my bicycle. I read books.
5. How did you spend your last summer holidays?
I spent my holidays with my family in the village. We went by car to the lake and fished there. We had a lot of fun and I caught a really huge fish. I was happy.
6. What did you enjoy doing?
I enjoyed fishing. I caught a really huge fish. I was happy.
7. What do you think you will do next holidays?
I think I will go to the village next summer.
3) Работа в парах. Попросите своего партнёра рассказать о его/её лучших каникулах.
Where do you like spending holidays?
Who usually goes with you?
When do you like spending holidays? Why?
What do you do on holidays?
How did you spend your last summer holidays?
What did you enjoy doing?
What do you think you will do next holidays?
Какие ваши лучшие каникулы? (Используйте вопросы из упр. 1, 2.)
1. I like spending my holidays in the summer camp near the river.
2. I usually go with my friends.
3. I like spending holidays in the village because I can swim in the river there.
4. I like spending holidays in the forest. I can walk and ride the bicycle there. I like forests because I can find beautiful flowers there.
5. Last summer I was in the summer camp near the forest. We walked in the forest and swam in the river.
6. It was fantastic when we were in the village. First I swam in the river. Then I ate apples. After that I went to the forest.
7. Next holidays I will go to the village. I think I will have a lot of fun. I hope I will happy.
Напишите в Интернет письмо о ваших лучших каникулах.
I like travelling very much. Last summer my mother and I traveled to Moscow. We traveled by train. We went to summer circus in the tent. We saw funny clowns there. I will never forget the holidays. I can’t wait to go to Moscow next summer.