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Holidays, enjoying exercise

Holidays

Eu Answer these questions from a holiday questionnaire.
1 What was your most recent holiday destination? Why did you choose this destination?
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2 How did you travel? 4 What kind of accommodation did you choose?
Complete the description of childhood holidays with words and phrases from the box.

destination entertainments international-144*s isolated beach local cuisine
pack self-catering spectacular scenery tropical resorts two-week

When I was a child it was fairly unusual to go on a foreign holiday. The prices of
(1) (international. flights were exorbitant compared to those offered by today's budget airlines. Package
holidays to (2) were pretty much unheard-of. Instead my parents would
our aged car with the necessary belongings, and our family holiday would begin with a
(3)
was always the same: exotic Scotland.
twelve-hour drive through the night. Our (4)
Each year, my parents booked a different (5) cottage, usually next to an
and invariably with no mod cons whatsoever. The beds were always lumpy and damp.
(6)
There wouldn't even be a washing machine, never mind a television.
but this meant little to me or my sister. Plastic
No doubt we were surrounded by (7)
. Armed with these and a towel,
buckets and spades were the basis of all our holiday (8)
we would tear down to the beach every morning. We built extravagant castles, we buried my father alive, we
saved the lives of stranded jellyfish, we collected jewels, and we dug to Australia. Summer holidays lasted at
least a year back then.
breaks in the sun. Who wants all-inclusive resorts
I pity the kids today with their (9)
boasting restaurants serving authentic (10) ? Who needs artificial lagoons featuring wave
machines and plastic waterfalls? Show me an eight-year-old girl on a Scottish beach with a bucket and spade
and I'll show you what real holiday fun is all about.

Eig COLLOCATION Find collocations in the Vocabulary note
which match these definitions. V Vocabulary note
a. +wag holid.aij
1 a break for parents and their children
verb + holiday: go orihave ri take ol
book o/ cancel a holiday
a holiday with outdoor activities
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adjective + holiday: publid annual/
a holiday in another country
3 two-weeWforeignlexotic holiday

.4 a day off from work for everyone noun + holiday: package/beach/

_family' adventure holiday
5 a holiday at the seaside
holiday + noun: holiday resorV
6 to arrange and pay for a holiday destination/ season/insurance
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