Speak about the way you like or dislike spending your holidays. Use the following phrases

Personally,…

As for me,…

As a matter of fact,…

1. What is good about going abroad for holidays?

2. What is good at spending your holidays at home?

3. Each time you go to a new place, you may come upon something unexpected. What can it be?

4. What type of holiday do you prefer?

5. What do you enjoy doing while on holidays?

6. Is there anything you can do only while on holidays and never during the rest of the year?

26. Form adjectives or verbs from the following words: wind, rain, storm, sun, chilly, cloud, dust, frost, drizzle, thunder, light, hail, blossom.

27. Give synonyms or synonymous phrases to the following: fair weather, bad weather, dirty, hard frost, strong wind, wet weather, dry climate, a light wind, to melt, foggy, to blossom, piercing wind, a gentle wind, a peal of thunder, puddle.

28. Give antonyms: arid climate, wet weather, at sunset, to melt, cold rain, high temperature, heat, cloudless, sunny, twilight, cold, to fall (about tempera­ture), to begin, to keep on, dull, a foggy day, nasty weather, dry climate.

29. Explain the difference between the words:

To rain/to shower/to pour/to drizzle; mud/dirt; snow/sleet/hail; sunrise/dawn; foggy/misty; cold/chilly/cool; damp/wet/rainy.

30. Translate into Russian. Compare the structure of English and Russian sentences:

It is freezing; it is rainy, it is drizzling; it is muddy, it is slushy, it is raining heavily, it is thundering; it is lightening, it is hailing, winter is yielding to spring, it is clearing up, it is 25 degrees above zero, it is close, it is bitterly cold today.