Variant-5 Read and translate the text Holidays

2.Answer the following questions:
1. Why is it fun to have holidays?
2. What holidays do you like most of all?
3. What do you like doing on winter holidays?
Answers:

1. 
   Because, during the holidays, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to get up too early, do your homework.
   
2. 
   Most of all I like summer holidays, because they are the longest ones.
   
3. 
   I like playing snowball with my friends, skating and skiing during winter holidays.
   

3. Match the words with their endings:

to have	boating and swimming
to discussing	for hikes
to go	sorry to leave
to lay	for a walk
to go	ice-cream or juice
to have	holidays
to go	plans
to be	in the sun on the beach

Answers:

to have holidays

to discussing plans

to go for a walk

to lay in the sun on the beach

to go for hikes

to have ice-cream or juice

to go boating and swimming

to be sorry to leave

4. Match the words with their synonyms:

hobby	besides
opportunity	temper
to be divided	uninterested
moreover	chance
travel	important
important	leisure activity
to get bored	make a journey
mood	to be separated

Answers:
Hobby = leisure activity, opportunity = chance, to be divided = to be separated, moreover = besides, travel = make a journey, important = important, to get bored = uninterested, mood = temper.
5. Grammar: Past Simple Tense/Writing: Focusing on grammar exercises

1. 
   Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:
   

break swim have sit
spend drink lose wash

1. 
   She ………………….. a cake an hour ago.
   
2. 
   She ………………….. a hat last week.
   
3. 
   
4. 
   The boy ………………….. a letter yesterday.
   

1. They ……………………. in the sea for an hour.

2. They ………………….. a lot of Coke last night.
3. She ………………… her arm last week.
4. He ……………………. all his money last week.
5. She …………………… a bath two minutes ago.
6. He ……………………. his wallet last night.
7. She ………………….. on the old chair a minute ago.
8. She ………………….. the clothes yesterday.
Answers:
1. They swam in the sea for an hour.
2. They drank a lot of Coke last night.
3. She broke her arm last week.
4. He spent all his money last week.
5. She had a bath two minutes ago.
6. He lost his wallet last night.
7. She sat on the old chair a minute ago.
8. She washed the clothes yesterday.