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Family Vacations
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Family Vacations
家庭度假

Learn English with this family vacations English lesson

Date: Jun 29 2021

Themes: Family, Holidays, Travel

Grammar: Verbs with "-ing"

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Going on a road trip as an adult can be amazing. You have the freedom to go where you want to go, stop and look at anything, and drive all night if you feel like it! Road trips as a child, on the other hand, don’t bring back fond memories for everyone. You may remember being sandwiched between siblings in the back of a car, fighting with your parents, and basically feeling claustrophobic and ready to go back home.

Even so, family vacations do give brothers and sisters the chance to become close and share memories even when they’re getting on each other’s nerves. They don’t have to be luxury vacations. Just going camping over the weekend can be wonderful when everyone is together. All you have to do is throw your luggage in the back of a car, turn it on and drive.

Do you remember what it was like to travel with your family as a kid? Find out what Greta and Mason remember in this English lesson about going on vacation.

对于成年人,自驾游是一次神奇的经历。你可以随心所欲,去想去的地方,驻足观看,如果你喜欢,也可以通宵开车!但是,对于孩子,自驾游并不会为每个人都留下美好回忆。我们也许会记得,在车后座被夹在兄弟姐妹中间,和父母争执,感觉到患有幽闭恐惧症,期盼回家。

虽然如此,但是家庭度假为兄弟姐妹提供了亲近和分享回忆的机会,即使是他们互相招惹到对方的回忆。度假不必很奢侈。大家聚在一起时,周末去野营也很美好。你只需把行李扔进车后面,发动引擎然后开车。

你还记得小时候和家人去旅行时的情景吗?在本节以度假为话题的英语课上,听听看格里塔和梅森的回忆。

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Greta

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Mason

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Greta:  Mason, did you take a lot of family vacations when you were growing up?

Mason:  I think so. We had a good variety of camping vacations, road trips, plane trips… stuff like that.

Greta:  Were they fun, going on vacation with your whole family? Do you have fond memories of that?

Mason:  I guess. Yeah, I do. My little sister tended to be kind of a brat, but it felt like we got enough time to do our own thing. That we weren’t getting on each other’s nerves.

Greta:  In those car trips, I remember feeling almost claustrophobic, sandwiched between my brother and my sister. All of the siblings in the same car for 12 hours as we drove to, I don’t know, Yellowstone Park or some other national monument that we just had to see. I remember just being, “This is hot, and I’m bored, and I don’t have any room.”

Mason:  No, I was pretty spoiled. We had a big van. You know the good front-style seats? The bucket seats? We had a second row of bucket seats for the kids, so it was pretty deluxe.

Greta:  So, you did not have to sit in the back seat with luggage underneath your feet?

Mason:  Nope, I was living in luxury.

 

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Greta and Mason are thinking back to when they were kids. They’re remembering what it was like to go on vacation with their families. It seems like Mason has much more positive memories than Greta does! He remembers comfortable car seats, different kinds of trips, and time that he could spend alone, doing his own thing.

Greta’s memories aren’t quite as fond. She remembers being squeezed into a crowded car, and feeling hot, bored, and not excited about where they were going. Greta’s family car was so full of people and things that she even remembers luggage under her feet!

Did you take family vacations as a kid? Were your trips more like Mason’s or more like Greta’s? Where did you go?

 

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englishteacher24/7

United States

My most memorable trip was the day my father rode with me on a long distance bus ride to the college I attended to see me registered and settled in the dorm.


He was very proud because he didn’t have that opportunity but vicariously experienced it through me. I am forever grateful for the support my parents gave me through college.


We also took vacation trips by car from the northern portion of the US to the southern portion. It would take 1-2 days and was interesting to see the sights of unfamiliar territories.


The people in the south talk with a southern accent and were very different from the people in the north. However, they were quite neighborly and would go out of their way to help you.


You can learn a lot by traveling on land! 


majiaoqin

majiaoqin

China

  I have not any vacation with my parents so far , what a pity. I will make a plan to take them to a very wonderful place. I am sure i will do that perfectly.

06:21 AM Aug 24 2013 |

Limy

Limy

China

my only trip with my parents was the term bigan of my university,they put off their work and brong all the heavy luggage for me.now i have finished my study ,but i still remember that day four years ago.

05:06 AM Aug 24 2013 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

How could forget my first vacation. I remember, we a bunch of wild teenagers squeezing into a small Fiat 600 and heading out to the Atlantic Ocean ,400 kilometers away. My first sight of the ocean is unforgettable, we were young and free and couldn’t care less for the inconvenience of riding in a packed car. Happy days, indeed.

10:39 PM Aug 23 2013 |

mausam

mausam

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Laughter is an instant vacation.

02:04 PM Aug 23 2013 |

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mtgk70

mtgk70

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

road trip is similar to sit on the cinema chair.
I like trip because, it give me energy for do my work.
family trip give them cooperation feeling.

01:05 PM Aug 23 2013 |

njaroli

njaroli

India

Yeah , in my childhood we used to go on the family trips!


yeah the trips were not that luxurious , but if whole the family is there , then who cares for the comfort!

12:39 PM Aug 23 2013 |

dreadslayer

Turkey

well,i remember my longest road trip to our hometown here my gparent live .It was really tough trip which lasted 12 hours on roads.it made me so bored.even for a kid long road trips are so boring so i can say my trips were comfortable because i have only one sibling.But i inclined to go on vacation with my friends.this makes it much funnier than going with family

12:25 PM Aug 23 2013 |

Jasonlongo

Jasonlongo

Congo, Democratic Republic Of The

I’ve never  taken a trip with my famiy, it’s kind of  I grew up myself far from my parents and brothers ! But… I enjoyed the lesson

10:52 AM Aug 23 2013 |

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Seiyf_khawas

Turkey

I remember only a vacation without car or bus under rains when ı was a child..we had to walk to main bus station by foot .. and suddenly it started to rain on the road ..in that time noone had a car ..old buses are used for transportation without luxury ..and there was no electricity and water where ı gone to villages..


maybe ı lived in “Ice age” ..Today generation is very lucky ..they have everything for living better…

10:22 AM Aug 23 2013 |

Drmahsa1995

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

yep i remember most of them.. i had my best times on vacations …........

09:52 AM Aug 23 2013 |

sudipto

sudipto

India

hey my dear friend mahsa and sara i am telling both of you guys..who said that both of you guys chances are over????....stiill having a better opportunity for both of you people to spend a time with family…still tha days are waitng for you guy’s…you have to find the way by yourself only..so,i’d like to suggest both of you guy’s don’t get upset and don’t let go your’s chances rather than grab the opportunity try to utilize that…it’s best option for you guy’s…!!!!!

09:50 AM Aug 23 2013 |

MAHSA1995

MAHSA1995

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Hi sara…yea….we both didnt cherish it.. I didnt enjoy my life when I had a chance to use it


09:40 AM Aug 23 2013 |

sarah1374

sarah1374

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

i love those days when i was a kid and we just drove ftom north of my country to south with my whole family.i was kid and i didnt understand the value of those days.but it was ealy fun.:(

09:37 AM Aug 23 2013 |

MAHSA1995

MAHSA1995

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Family trips are wonderful…when I was younger I used to sleep the whole way till destination…but later I realized it is better to enjoy scenery…


I really wish I was abit grateful for my childhood…I regeret that I didnt cherish my life…I am wondering if I could back…even a year..


08:32 AM Aug 23 2013 |

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nourelyakine

Algeria

I love family trips it’s very enjoyable and interesting

08:18 AM Aug 23 2013 |

sudipto

sudipto

India

well i would rather go to the trip with my friends than my family…that’s nt mean i not do prefer family vacation obviously i do prefer…since from my childhood till now i used to go withh my family everywere for trip….but when i used to go with my friends that is being quite fun….you know what family vacation is quite hectic for me though i have a good memory as well as bad memory..carry a lot of luggage inside the car that time i used to feel claustrophobic…but hang out with friends that just a freedom breath for me…and my memory was quite fond…..!!!!!!

07:36 AM Aug 23 2013 |

Cynthia_Liujing

China

As i am the smallest one in my familay.i have missed some  family vacations.


but i like to trip.i like woods,river….all things that spring-witches give us.

04:39 AM Aug 23 2013 |

durnapinar

durnapinar

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

i get exra energy when i go trip with my family.spending time with them,looking to  nature,trees ,flowres and… are really beautiful.

03:47 AM Aug 23 2013 |

Jobee

Jobee

China

too bad I didn’t remember the fond experience for trips because I was a brat at that time.


But I like the trips,expecially to the natural preservation.I did go for mountain climing with some of me pals,one of whom was the girl I like.it si the fond memery for me.And friends’ car was huge,deluxe,I sit at bucket seat and felt cozy.


Am I spoiled?

03:43 AM Aug 23 2013 |

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