Holidays

After each term in school we had our holidays. It's fun to have holidays, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to get up too early, do your homework or think of troubles which occur very often at school.

Most of all I liked summer holidays, they were the longest ones, though, when winter was snowy and and frosty, I enjoyed my winter holidays skating and skiing, sledging and making a snowman or having a fight with snowballs.

I'd like to tell you about my summer holidays I spent in Sochi. It was just three years ago. My parents and me were sitting in the living-room discussing our plans for the summer holidays. My father suggested that we should go to Sochi. On hearing that I jumped up with joy and said it was a wonderful idea. My mother wasn't against the idea either. So one summer morning we started for our journey to Sochi.

First, we travelled to Odessa by plane and from there we got to Sochi by boat. We stayed in Odessa for three days, our relatives live there and they gave us board and lodging. So we had an excellent opportunity to go round the city, to see beautiful monuments to the famous people who had lived in Odessa, museums and the Odessa Opera House.

We enjoyed our trip from Odessa to Sochi. The Black Sea was calm. We sat on deck in the lounge chairs and looked at the sea. I like Sochi very much, we bathed and went boating and swimming, lay in the sun on the beach. In the evenings we went for a walk or dropped in at a cafe to have ice-cream or juice.

My father showed us the famous Botanical Gardens, we went for hikes in the mountains, we saw the magnificent Augura Waterfalls. The sea was nice and warm. The weather was fine. When it was time to go home, we were sorry to leave the marvellous town of Sochi.

Questions:

1. Why is it fun to have holidays?
2. What holidays did you like most of all?
3. Did you like winter holidays?
4. Have you ever been to Sochi? When were you there?
5. What did your father suggest?
6. When did you start for your journey to Sochi?
7. Where did you travel by plane?
8. How many days did you stay in Odessa?
9. Where did you live there?
10. What did you do in Odessa?
11. Did you enjoy your trip to Sochi?
12. What did you do in the evenings?
13. Why were you sorry to leave Sochi?

Vocabulary:

term - четверть
it's fun - весело, забавно, интересно
to occur - случаться
to enjoy - получать удовольствие
snowballs - снежки
to discuss - обсуждать
to suggest- предлагать
to start for some place - отправляться, пускаться в путь
journey - путешествие
to stay - жить, быть где-то
to give smb. board and lodging - приютить кого-либо
an excellent opportunity - прекрасная возможность
to go round the city - ходить по городу
trip - путешествие
calm - спокойный, тихий
to sit on deck - сидеть на палубе
to go boating and swimming - плавать в лодке, плавать в море (реке, озере)
to go for hikes in the mountains - ходить в горы
to be sorry - сожалеть

Say about your Summer holidays. What do you do? Where do you go? Make the topic " My summer holidays"