My Last Holiday

Directions: Complete the paragraph with the right form of the verbs in simple past while
listen to the reading.

In winter, the weather is cold and freezing.

School stops for a while and many people like

go to the beach on holiday. The days are hot

and sunny. That’s what I love the most about the

beach.

Last winter I ____________ (go)1 on holiday to Marquelia with my dad. We

_________________ (travel)2 by own car, and the journey was very tiring. But I

_______ (am)3 really excited about visiting my family.

Although we ____________ (stay)4 for about 2 weeks, we __________ (go)5 to Playa

Tortuga and Playa Aquetzalli. It was so much fun because my family and I spent

time. And what did we do? Well, we ___________ (play)6 soccer on the beach

and _________ (swim)7 in the sea. My nephews ____________ (jump)8 over the

waves. We _________ (eat)9 the local food such as a la diabla shrimps and fried

fish. My dad __________ (sing)10 and ___________ (play)11 the guitar. I found many

seashells on the sea shore, there were a lot of them.

But the best thing was to watch the sunset. There were palm trees around the

seashore and the sun was fall down slowly. It was like being in a film.

Finally, my family and I celebrated New Year’s Eve, so we were up all night.