Season Finale:Summer

Melissa

Lesson #5

Review of Seasons

• Fall (Autumn)

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

• Watch Clip

Vocabulary:

A Race Until the End

Words:1. Picnic2. Hot3. Beach4. Camping5. Sunglasses6. Sand Castle7. Sunbathing8. Barbecue9. Swimming10. Umbrella11. Ants12. Beach ball13. Water sports14. Suntan15. Sun

American Holidays and Culture

• Memorial Day– May 31st-Beginning of summer

• June 21st– BBQ

• Flag Day– June 14th

– 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

someone3.under the sun 4.at sea (about something) 5.get your sea legs 6.a ray of sunshine7.bury one's head in the sand8.come out of one's shell

Idioms1. 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

situation6. a ray of sunshine - someone or something

that makes you feel hopeful7. 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

Quotes1. 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 Williams7. The summer night is like a __________ of thought. 

~Wallace Stevens8. There shall be _______ summer in the _______ heart. 

~Celia Thaxter9. People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when

they're _______.  ~Anton Chekhov10. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us ________

and like it.  ~Russel Baker

Answers:

1 mower2 eternal 3 respectability4 love5 beautiful6 song7 perfection8 eternal, grateful 9 happy 10 suffer