Season Finale: Summer Melissa Lesson #5

Review of Seasons Fall (Autumn) Winter Spring Summer Watch Clip

Vocabulary:

A Race Until the End Words: 1.Picnic 2.Hot 3.Beach 4.Camping 5.Sunglasses 6.Sand Castle 7.Sunbathing 8.Barbecue 9.Swimming 10.Umbrella 11.Ants 12.Beach ball 13.Water sports 14.Suntan 15.Sun

American Holidays and Culture Memorial Day –May 31st-Beginning of summer June 21st –BBQ Flag Day –June 14 th –American Flag Father’s Day –3rd Sunday in June Fourth of July –American Independence –Parades, fireworks, BBQ, beach Melissa’s Birthday!!

Summer Reading

Activities: Will you…. Play: –Play basketball –Play baseball –Play Frisbee Go To: –Go to the park –Go to a barbecue –Go to a picnic Go + ing: –Go hiking –Go rollerblading –Go dancing –Go surfing –Go traveling –Go swimming

Game: Will you… Directions: 1.Shuffle and deal each player five cards. 2.Ask a player, “Will you play basketball?” If you have the card, “Yes, I will.” Then give them the card. If you don’t have the card, “No, I won’t.” Pick a card from the deck. 3.The person with the most matches win.

Ticket Out My favorite beach activities are... I will ________________.

Activities: I will…. Play: –Play basketball –Play baseball –Play Frisbee Go To: –Go to the park –Go to a barbecue –Go to a picnic Go + ing: –Go hiking –Go rollerblading –Go dancing –Go surfing –Go traveling –Go swimming

Summertime 1. What are your plans for this summer? 2.What do you usually do in summer? 3.If you could live in a country where it’s sunny and hot all year round, would you agree to live there? Why (not)? 4.What did you do last summer? 5.What is the best place to visit in summer? What is the worst place? 6.What’s the weather like in your country in summer? And in your city? 7.What is better: lying on the beach all day or climbing the mountains?

Idioms 1.go to bed with the sun 2.think the sun rises and sets on someone 3.under the sun 4.at sea (about something) 5.get your sea legs 6.a ray of sunshine 7.bury one's head in the sand 8.come out of one's shell

Idioms 1.go to bed with the sun - to go to bed early, at sunset. 2.think the sun rises and sets on someone - to think someone is the most important person in the world 3.under the sun - anywhere on earth at all. 4.at sea (about something) - to be confused; to be lost and bewildered. 5.get your sea legs - to get used to a new situation 6.a ray of sunshine - someone or something that makes you feel hopeful 7.bury one's head in the sand - to ignore or hide from obvious signs of danger. 8.come out of one's shell - to become more friendly; to be more sociable

Quotes: beautiful song eternal (x2) mower grateful love happy suffer perfection respectability

Quotes 1. A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn ______ is broken. ~James Dent 2. There shall be ______ summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter 3. Deep summer is when laziness finds ___________. ~Sam Keen 4. A life without ______ is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb 5. Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most _______ words in the English language. ~Henry James 6. In summer, the _____ sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams 7. The summer night is like a __________ of thought. ~Wallace Stevens 8. There shall be _______ summer in the _______ heart. ~Celia Thaxter 9. People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're _______. ~Anton Chekhov 10. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us ________ and like it. ~Russel Baker

Answers: 1 mower 2 eternal 3 respectability 4 love 5 beautiful 6 song 7 perfection 8 eternal, grateful 9 happy 10 suffer