Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
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.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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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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Discussion
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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