My last summer holidays

Louise, 15, Spanish

In my last summer holidays I travelled with my class to England to attend an English course in Newcastle. We stayed two weeks there and three days in London. We all stayed with English families. They were very nice and friendly and we practised our English a lot. The only thing I really disliked were the morning lessons because I had to get up very early and sometimes the lessons were a bit boring.

In London we visited some fantastic monuments, like the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace, and watched a famous musical show, Cats. I enjoyed it very much.

We met some English teenagers and had time to visit some shops and buy a couple of souvenirs. We had a great time.

Tim, 17, English

I enjoyed myself a great deal. For the first time my parents let me to go on holidays with a group of friends. We decided to go by bike. The weather was terribly hot. We really suffered a lot and after two days we were already very tired because we had to carry our rucksacks and several bottles of water all the time.

We visited some beautiful places I will always remember.

Of course I missed my family very much, but my holidays were so fantastic that I didn’t want to go back home!

A. TRUE or FALSE? Correct the false sentences with information from the text:

1. Louise visited two English cities.

2. She stayed in a youth hostel.

3. She didn’t like the musical show.

4. Tim’s holidays were very tiring.

5. He wanted to go back home as quickly as possible.

B. Find in the text words that mean the opposite of:

1. first-                                        2. without-

3. late-                                        4. interesting-