Answer the questions using the pictures: What is your favorite thing about the summer? Do you stay outdoors more in the summer? What is your favourite ice cream flavor? What is your favourite summer clothing? Beach or Swimming pool? Mountains or forest? What is your favorite summertime song? Do you party a lot during the summer? What is your best summertime memory? What annoys you most about the summer? Do you spend more money during the summer? Who do you usually spend most of your summer with? Where would you go for your dream summer vacation? Look at the pictures. What place would you visit at this moment? Look at the underlined words and choose the correct synonym to the highlighted word: I love to work out early in the park. It’s nice and warm in a) don’t like b) don’t mind c) annoyed • It is a good cafe to hang out with friends. I enjoy sitting outdoors. Besides they have tasty food here! summer. But I don’t exercise in the evening. I can’t stand a) don`t mind b) dislike it c) love a) hate • I don’t like jogging in summer. But I`m fond of aerobics, b) like roller skating and skate-boarding c) love • I do yoga in the park in summer. I adore summer. a) like b) love very much c) hate • How do you get to the river in summer?- I always cycle. I’m not too keen on going by public transport. a) don’t mind b) don‘t like c) don’t object • After jogging on the beach I eat a light breakfast at the nearest cafe. I`m fed up with those salads. a) hate b) like c) prefer • I always go to the seaside in summer. I can’t bear either going to the mountains or to the forest. a) prefer b) like c) hate Tell about your summer activities using the given phrases. Use the pictures as a prompt. For example, I love swimming and sunbathing because … Discuss the questions using the vocabulary from the previous exercise: What is your idea of a summer diet? Do you eat a lot of vegetables and fruit? What is your favourite summer vegetable and fruit? Do you consider a good idea collecting mushrooms and berries in the forest? Do you love camping and hiking? What food do you take with you? Do you cook? Read the text and answer the questions Go Green This Summer: Venture Out For Some Agritourism Many families are looking for fun and educational summer activities with their children. However, there are lots of educational learning opportunities that families overlook. One of these is agritourism. So what is agritourism? Agritourism is any agriculturally-based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch. Agritourism is essentially bringing your family to a day on the farm or maybe even a weekend trip. Many small and large farms are catering to the new-found interest in agritourism. In fact, there may be a farm much closer than you expected. day-to-day activities of the farm hands. Other farms will actually let you get down and dirty too. You can harvest chicken eggs, sheer sheep, feed cattle, and learn to ride a horse. You are not limited to poultry and cattle farms. A number of produce farms give families the opportunity to pick their own berries or produce. Many times the pick-your-own farms offer fantastic deals on their produce or have free produce if you pick for them. We have a local berry farm that does a pick 2 get 1 free special. If you pick 2 pounds of berries for the farm, you are free to take a pound of berries home for yourself free. You can work and be rewarded with some fantastic locally grown produce. Here are a few other types of farms that typically allow agritourists. What can you expect to do during a farm tour or Bee farms stay? Dairy farms Vineyards Honestly this depends on the farm and what you want Greenhouses and so on. to experience. There are farms that give basic tours of their facilities and let you pet/feed the animals. You can also watch the Questions: What type of farms are there in the text? What activities can people do there? What activities from the text would you enjoy doing? Do you like the idea of agritourism? What farm would you like to go to? With your family or friends? Would you enjoy working on a farm? What would you like to do?