1. Look at the photo. Do you know this sport? How do you think it feels to do it?
Answer:
Sport: bodyboarding
2. Complete the dialogue with the correct affirmative or negative past simple form of the verbs below.
Answer:
1 learnt/learned 2 loved 3 wasn't 4 got
5 spent 6 did't leave 7 watched
3. Listen and check your answers to exercise 2. Does the photo go with the first or second half of the dialogue? How do you know?
Answer:
The photo goes with the first half of the dialogue because it shows Laurie bodyboarding.
4. Listen to three girls talking about their summer holidays. Match each speaker (1-3) with an event (a-c) and then circle the correct adjective to describe how she felt about it.
Answer:
Đang cập nhật...
5. Read the phrases for reacting and showing interest. Then find three more in the dialogue in exercise 2.
Answer:
Wow! Oh dear! How awful!
6. Listen to the dialogue in exercise 2 again, then practise saying the phrases above. Try to sound interested!
7. Work in pairs. Take turns to say a sentence from the list below using the correct past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Your partner reacts with a suitable phrase from exercise 5.
Answer:
2 I learned to play a new song on the guitar. - That amazing!
3 I broke a bone in my foot. - That sounds like a nightmare!
4 I dropped my dad's laptop. - Oh no! What a disaster!
8. Read the Speaking Strategy. Work in pairs. One student tells an event from his / her last summer, the other reacts to the story.
Answer:
- Last summer, I had a trip with my family to the beach.
- That sounds interesting!
- I was happy with waves and golden sand. But I was burned by the sun light and it was really annoyed.
- Oh no! That terrible!