Enjoy your Vacation

Enjoy your Vacation

Vocabulary

Vacation

Book a flight/ hotel

 /bʊk//ə/ /flaɪt/ /hoʊˈtel/

to buy a ticket for a flight on a plane, or to make a reservation in a hotel.

We always book our flights/hotel online.

get a tan

 /ɡet//ə/ /tæn/

the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned.

My sister went to the beach to get a tan.

lose your luggage

 /luːz//jʊr//ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ/

any bag, suitcase, or other form of luggage misplaced by an airline or other transportation company during a trip.

The airline lost my luggage.

take a trip

 /teɪk//ə/ /trɪp/

a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again.

My friends and I are going to take a trip to Arizona.

buy souvenirs

/baɪ//ˌsuː.vəˈnɪrs/

when you buy or keep something  to help you remember a holiday 

or special event.

He bought a model of a red London bus as a souvenir of his trip to London.

get lost

/ɡet/ /lɑːst/

When you don´t know how to get to a place, so you get lost.

I got lost on my trip to Arizona.

pack your bag

/pæk//jʊr//bæɡ/

to put one's belongings in a suitcase or other container for traveling.

She packed her bags and went to Hawaii.

write a travel blog

/raɪt//ə//blɑːɡ/

When you write in a website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer about traveling.

She wrote in her travel blog about her trip to Hawaii.

Check into a hotel

/tʃek/ /ˈɪn.tuː//ə//hoʊˈtel/

to say who you are when you arrive at a hotel so that you can be given a key for your room.

Please would you check in at the reception desk 

and sign your name in the book.

go camping

 /ɡoʊ/ /ˈkæm.pɪŋ/

the activity of staying in a tent on holiday.

We used to go camping in Spain when I was a child.

put up a tent

 /pʊt/ /ʌp//ə//tent/

to raise a tent  made of canvas or a similar material and supported by

 poles and ropes, to sleep in.

My friend and I were putting up the tent.

eat out

/iːt/  /aʊt/

to eat in a restaurant.

When I lived in Spain, I used to eat out all the time.

go sightseeing

/ɡoʊ//ˈsaɪtˌsiː.ɪŋ/

the activity of visiting interesting

 places, especially by people 

on holiday.

We did some sightseeing in Paris.

stay in a hotel

/steɪ//ɪn//ə//hoʊˈtel/

a building where you pay to have a room to sleep in, and where you can sometimes eat meals.

We stayed in/at a hotel on the beach.

Present Perfect + for and since , How long?

We use the present perfect with the words how long, for, since to talk about actions or situations that started in the past and still continue or are still true now.

We can use FOR, SINCE and HOW long? to ask about duration.

FOR

We use FOR + a period of time, e.g. for two weeks, for ten years, for ten days, for a few hours, etc. After the word FOR we say the lenght of time something lasted.

FOR +the duration of something +how long it lasted.

We´ve been here for a few hours.

I´ve been teaching FOR 3 years.

SINCE

We use SINCE with a point in time. It tell us when something began in the start time. We use since + a moment in the past (the beginning of a period of time), e.g. since I was born, since 10 o’clock, since last Wednesday, etc

SINCE + when something began- the start time.

She´s been teaching SINCE 2018.

I´ve worked there SINCE april.

How long?

We use how long in questions to ask about the duration of an action or situation.

How long has she been a teacher?

How do you form a question using How long?

How long (present perfect)

How long + has /have + S + verb in pp +?

How long have we been here?

We´ve been here for five days/a week/ a month.

I haven´t read a book since saturday.

She´s lived in California since 2010.

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Multiple Choice

How long _____ English?

• had you study

• have you studied

• has you study

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct how long question.

She is a teacher.

• How long has she been a teacher?

• How long have she been a teacher?

• How long has she was a teacher?

Multiple Choice

We use SINCE with...

• a period of time

• a point in time

Multiple Choice

We use FOR with...

• a period of time

• a point in time

Multiple Choice

She became a teacher when she started university.

How long has she been a teacher?

• She has been a teacher for started university.

• She has been a teacher since she started university.

Multiple Choice

She is 27 and she is a teacher. She started when she was 24 years old.

How long has she been a teacher?

• She has been a teacher since 3 years.

• She has been a teacher for 3 years.