Got Off Tiny: Curs: English - Intermediate Modul: Past Continuous Tense Unitate: The Worst Vacation Ever

Curs: English - Intermediate
Modul: Past Continuous Tense

Unitate: The Worst Vacation Ever
My name is Kate. Well me and my family went to the Caribbean last

summer and I used to go there as a little kid so I was really excited to
be going again. When we got off the plane, we ate dinner with a friend
in his little tiny house (it was actually really nice and exotic) and then
took a ferry to another island (St. John).
As soon as we arrived, it was raining, so we took a taxi in the pitch
dark to the other side of the island, where there were cabins to be
rented. When we got there, nobody was still in the registration
building, but we finally tracked someone down to get our cabin info
(Lucky for us it was the farthest cabin down the beach, and we had all
our luggage still.) so we walked a half-mile to the little cabin,
exhausted, and set our stuff on the porch. We looked as we came from
war, I couldnt breathe how tired I was. My eyes popped out of
tiredness. It was almost 2:00 in the morning and we were very
jet-lagged. Unfortunately for us, the cabin was locked! Because I was
so jet-lagged and stressed from the walking and dragging of luggage, I
nearly broke down right there. And then, my biggest hero, my mom,
who was very calm about the whole thing (even though she is NOT a
night person and looked really, really tired) walked all the way back to
the registration place.
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Meanwhile, I was drifting off in the sand and waking up to the irritating
bites of bugs every 3 seconds, thinking what ELSE could happen. My
dads back was bothering him so he had to lay on the picnic table and
my brother was telling me to shut up because I was flipping out. I had
some kind of a panic attack. Finally, my mom returned, cussing,
because the people at the registration said she actually hadn't booked
the cabin until 10:00 the next morning. Since we couldn't legally sleep
in the cabin for another 7 or so hours, we had to make ourselves
comfortable outside on the porch to sleep. I luckily found two lawn
chairs that might have belonged to the neighbours, but truthfully, at
that hour, I didn't care. I would be able to sleep on a rock if necessary!
I was THAT tired. My mom and I stretched out as much as possible in
the lawn chairs...my dad kept his place on the table... and my brother
lined up a few piles of clothes on the ground and tried to get
comfortable.
Imagine the surprise of the neighbours in the morning to find a family
snoring in the sand by their front porch! That was one of the worst
vacation experiences ever... my bug bites that morning had tripled.
But, it was a historical day, I will probably retell it to my grandchildren
and laugh about everything that had happened that day.
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Vocabulary
Nouns (substantive):
porch verand, teras
lawn chair scaun de
grdin
pile grmad, morman
tiredness - oboseal
Adjectives and adverbs

(adjective i adverbe):
Verbs (verbe):
get off a cobor
drag a trage
drift off a adormi
bother a chinui, a
deranja
flip out a nnebuni
cuss a njura
stretch out a se ntinde
line up a alinia
snore a sfori
break down a ncepe a
plnge
eye pop out a iei ochii
din cap
Prepositions and
conjunctions
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tiny mic, mrunt

pitch dark ntuneric
bezn
exhausted epuizat,
extenuat
jet-lagged a fi obosit
din cauza schimbrii
(prepoziii i conjuncii):
-
de fus orar
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TheWorstVacationEver
1. Stabilii care propoziie este corect. Kate`s brother was
sleeping:
a) in a lawn chair
b) on his clothes
c) in the car
2. Stabilii care propoziie este corect.
in the sand by their front porch:
They were sleeping
a) because the cabin was awful

b) because there was nobody to unlock the cabin
c) because they didn`t book the cabin until 10 the next
morning
the island to rent cabin :
When they came to
a) there was a man in the registration building

b) there was nobody in the registration building
c) there was somebody in the registration building
4. Gsii rspunsul corect.
St.John?
Why did they take a taxi to
a) because they were tired

b) because Kate was very jet-lagged
c) because it was raining
telling her to shut up because:
Kate`s brother was
a) she was cussing

b) she was drifting off
c) she was flipping out
drifting off :
Kate was firstly
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a) in the lawn chair

b) on the picnic table
c) in the sand
They left their stuff:
a) on the picnic table

b) on two lawn chairs
c) on the porch
arrived:
As soon as they
a) it was raining
b) the wind was blowing
c) the rain stopped
Caribbean by:
They arrived to the
a) ferry
b) plane
c) taxi
10. Stabilii dac urmtoarele afirmaii cunt corecte (TRUE)
sau incorecte (FALSE).
Ponueni odgovori: FALSE, TRUE
Dad walked all the way back to the registration place.
________
Finally somebody came and unlocked the cabin. ________
Dad had some problems with his back. ________
Kate firstly drifted off in the lawn chairs. ________
Kate had more bug bites next morning ,than the day before.
________
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Ponueni odgovori: FALSE, TRUE

When Kate`s family got off the plane they ate dinner with a
friend in his cabin. ________
It was quite a lovely, cloudless sky when they arrived.
________
When they arrived to St.John island they tried to rent a
cabin. ________
The cabin was locked when they arrived. ________
The mother was the only one who wasn`t so tired. ________
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1. Stabilii care propoziie este corect. Kate`s brother was

sleeping:
b
in the sand by their front porch:
They were sleeping
c
the island to rent cabin :
When they came to
b
4. Gsii rspunsul corect.
St.John?
Why did they take a taxi to
c
telling her to shut up because:
Kate`s brother was
c
drifting off :
Kate was firstly
c
They left their stuff:
c
arrived:
As soon as they
a
Caribbean by:
They arrived to the
b
FALSE, , FALSE, , FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, , FALSE, TRUE
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FALSE, , FALSE, , FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE,
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TheWorstVacationEver
1. Completai propoziiile cu cuvintele corespunztoare.
Ponueni odgovori: pile , lining up, cussing, pitch-dark
When I entered his bathroom I could only see a ________
of dirty clothes. ________
Dozens of people were ________
to get the tickets. ________
I am a little bit afraid.This is a moonless ________
night. ________
My mom is always ________
at me because she isn`t handling her stress very well.
________
Ponueni odgovori: jet lag, drifting off, flipped out, tiny
I couldn`t help ________
in the middle of that lecture - it was so boring! ________
Every time I fly to Australia I get really bad ________
That baby is so ________
,look at her!She is so cute! ________
Her boyfriend was late again!This time she really ________
3. Legai cuvintele.
a) line
b) flip
c) pitch
d) lawn
a) out
b) dark
c) chair
d) up
4. Legai cuvintele.
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a) track
b) pile
c) jet
d) drift
a) of clothes
b) someone
c) lag
d) off
5. Completai propoziia cu cuvntul potrivit.

Ponueni odgovori: drifted off, got off, flipped out, broke
down
When she
________
the plane, everybody was watching!She was so beautiful!

________
Ponueni odgovori: dragging, lining, cussing, snoring
Michael was ________
his luggage all the way from the airport by himself.He didn`t
feel well when he came into the hotel room. ________
Ponueni odgovori: breaks down, snores, lines up, break
down
If she works long hours she always ________
because she`s exhausted. Everybody in the office is trying
to calm her down. ________
Ponueni odgovori: dragged, cussed, tracked, snored
My local website ________
someone in China! ________
Ponueni odgovori: drifted off, jet-lagged, tiny, exhausted
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I am always ________
when I talk to much, but it`s my job and I like it. ________
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pile , lining up, pile , cussing, pile , , pile , pitch-dark
jet lag, flipped out, jet lag, drifting off, jet lag, , jet lag, tiny
3. Legai cuvintele.
ad, ba, cb, dc
4. Legai cuvintele.
ab, ba, cc, dd
drifted off, flipped out
dragging, lining
breaks down, snores
dragged, snored
drifted off,
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Adjectives and adverbs

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They were sleeping

a) because the cabin was awful

When they came to

a) there was a man in the registration building

Why did they take a taxi to

a) because they were tired

Kate`s brother was

a) she was cussing

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a) in the lawn chair

They left their stuff:

a) on the picnic table

They arrived to the

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Ponueni odgovori: FALSE, TRUE

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1. Stabilii care propoziie este corect. Kate`s brother was

They were sleeping

When they came to

Why did they take a taxi to

Kate`s brother was

Kate was firstly

They left their stuff:

They arrived to the

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FALSE, , FALSE, , FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE,

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5. Completai propoziia cu cuvntul potrivit.

the plane, everybody was watching!She was so beautiful!

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1. Completai propoziiile cu cuvintele corespunztoare.

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