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– My Summer Holidays
Scrambled Questions
Unscramble the questions, and then ask them to your teacher:

1. summer your how holidays were?

2. did where go you?
3. there you did do what?
4. it did like you?

Ask and answer the questions in pairs.

Questions Words
Complete the questions with a question word:

Where What (x2) How (x2) Who

1. ___________ was the weather like?

2. ___________ did you stay?
3. ___________ did you get there?
4. ___________ did you go on holiday with?
5. ___________ long did you go for?
6. ___________ was the best thing you did there?

Answer Match
Match the questions (1-6) with the answers (a-f)

a. We went surfing, it was so much fun!

b. In a nice little hotel next to the beach.
c. We took a plane to the island and then we rented a car.
d. We went for 6 days.
e. It was lovely, it only rained once.
f. I went with my Mum, Dad and little brother.

Speaking
Ask the questions to your teacher, then to your partner.

Then write 2 new questions for your partner:

Where Verb in base form

Who Do
When Did You Eat There?
What Buy
Why See
How Etc.
What Was The best thing You Verb in past simple
Ate?
Saw?
Bought?
Etc.
Key
Scrambled questions

1. How were your summer holidays?

2. Where did you go?
3. What did you do there?
4. Did you like it?

Question Words

1. What
2. Where
3. How
4. Who
5. How
6. What

Answer Match

1. E
2. B
3. C
4. F
5. D
6. A

Teacher’s Notes
Pronunciation

While students are performing the speaking task, be sure to help them with pronunciation of the
questions, focusing specifically on weak forms and sentence stress:

Where did you go?

| weə dɪdjə ɡəʊ | - Connected speech and weak form “you”

What was the weather like?

| ˈwɒt wəz ðə ˈweðə ˈlaɪk | - weak forms of “was” and “the”. Sentence stress on “what” “weather”
and “like”

Smartphones, photos

If students have photos of their holiday readily available (on a smartphone or tablet) let them show
their partner while they describe their holiday.