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Lesson of The Week- 

Quote of the Day: 

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
-Dame Edith Wharton

See you all next week!  

Smile, laugh and enjoy your life and learning!

Aloha- The kids have just finished the school year and so another summer begins.  American students LOVE summer vacation because it is long, relaxing and there is no homework.  I myself have very fond memories of summer vacation when I was a kid.  I remember water balloom fights with the neighborhood kids, 4th of July picnics, family trips, visits to the Grandparents and a lot of other happy images.  How about you?

Theme:  Summer Vacation

Reading

Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. It is marked by the longest days and shortest nights. The seasons start on different dates in different cultures based on astronomy and regional meteorology. However, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere it is winter in the northern hemisphere, and vice versa.

In areas of the tropics and subtropics, the wet season occurs during the summer. Tropical cyclones develop and roam the tropical and subtropical oceans during the summer. In the interior of continents, thunderstorms are most likely to produce hail during the afternoon and evening. Schools and universities have a summer break to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer days.

From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons, but a variable seasonal lag means that the meteorological start of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns, occurs several weeks later than the start of the astronomical season. 

According to meteorologists, summer extends for the whole months of June, July and August in the northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January and February in the southern hemisphere. This meteorological definition of summer also aligns with the commonly viewed notion of summer as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which daylight predominates.

From the astronomical perspective, days continue to lengthen from equinox to solstice and summer days progressively shorten after the solstice, so meteorological summer encompasses the build-up to the longest day and a diminishing thereafter, with summer having many more hours of daylight than spring.

The meteorological reckoning of seasons is used in Austria, Denmark and the former USSR; it is also used by many in the United Kingdom, where summer is thought of as extending from mid-May to mid-August. The definition based on equinox to solstice is more frequently used in the United States where a temperature lag of up to half a season is common.

Writing

 Please answer the following questions in your journal in detail.

1. How will you spend summer?

2. What are 3 activities you like to do that can only be

    done in summer?

3. What feelings are associated with summer and how

    do they differ from season to season?

4. Are there any summer foods that you look forward

    to eating and what are they?

5. Tell about a summer trip you took.

Grammar Revisited

Listening

Speaking

Summer Word Search

Y P K K J Y F O D W S W K E X Z J L D W C I E Y C T U Y S R E E Z E E R B A M W E T F U L H P S E D S U S N D E P I G Z A S P O C R E G C R S W Q S N U R E R U O N U I T U R K I C E C R E A M W P R Z F G V N C U S R A O R M M L B L T A E H U S A U B N P H U T A O M U X R G F D T K P C M Q U I A Y L U J L U E N A N N D T X A U I P R C I N G S E E S D B B U S G H T F O I A N T U U W M Z B E A C H S D K I Y G L T A U F S I O M K J J H T I G P O L O T I O N T T M N V L W Y L S Z G X N G R N O G O Q N M A K V C J Z P Z B A U V S D N R H U M I D I T Y N U H L F J G L P L M A Y T G N E N U J A O W J Y M K M H S S R O O N G L V G J T W Q W J F C W R U Y N D Q A I O O S D N Q U E E G B G J N C Y S Q Q E N C O J U T N S X X R O I N C G E Z O T Q G E P S X L E X L O A M S U L W Y D X S S Y K T K J R

   Define the difference between these words:

  break,   day off,   holiday,   vacation

  Let's take a coffee break.

  I have a day off tomorrow.

  May 5th is a National Holiday.

  I went to Cairnes for Vacation.

Turkey

How many of these summer words can you find above?

Follow this school report on

"What I did On My Summer Vacation."

Ok...now it is your turn.

Here's your speaking challenge:

Tell about a summer memory.  Describe it in detail and paint a mental image so that we can feel what you felt.  How can you use words, tones and sounds to enhance your story and

really allow your listener to feel like it is summer.

Share your story with the class and ask for feedback from your teacher and classmates.