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10 Things to Do in the Summer in the United States.
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to travel abroad
To travel abroad, to travel abroad…
Abroad means “outside of your country.”
So, meaning to travel to a place not the United States, in my case.
Please don’t forget “to” in this expression.
So many of my students will say, “This summer I’m going Europe.”
You need to use “to” before the place.
You do not however, need to use “to” before “there.”
So, like, students sometimes will say,
“I want to go to there.”
You can’t do that.
You have to use “to” before the specific name of a place.
“There” is not a specific place, so you don’t need to use “to.”
Keep that one in mind.
to relax at the beach
To relax at the beach.
Ah that sounds fantastic right now.
To relax at the beach.
You go to the beach, and you just relax there.
You lay in the sun, you go swimming…
Maybe you drink a beer, you get a tan…
If you would like to do that, of course, some people don’t.
You put on sunscreen.
Whatever it is that you like to do at the
beach.
You just do that, and enjoy.
In a sentence,
“I would rather relax at the beach than have a really active vacation.”
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So I guess if you are very ambitious this summer,
good for you.
You can learn English by doing what you’re doing now.
Or I think you can visit, I presume you can visit, the website for more content there, too.
“I’m going to put my time to good use and
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to have a barbeque
Oh yeah, the next one is one of my favorite
things ever to do in summer,
wherever I am.
It’s “to have a barbeque.”
Or “to have a BBQ” is also ok.
But “barbeque,” usually.
“BBQ” is in, like, writing.
I love having barbeques with my friends in
the summer.
“Every 4th of July, my family has a big barbeque.”
to party all night
The next expression is “to party all night.”
To party all night, you don’t, it doesn’t
have to be summer or in the United States
to party all night.
Just sayin'.
Anyway, “to party all night” means
to do something you enjoy, presumably with
your friends or not, I guess.
I’ve partied, like, all night at home.
I tweeted “Pajamas are the best,” and then
I tweeted a picture of myself really excited
about a cookie
and was very embarrassed about that the next day,
so I deleted it in the morning.
“Since I won’t have school in the morning,
I’m going to party all night!”
In a different sentence,
“I don’t like partying all night, I get tired.”
I always hit a wall at, like, 3am.
I’m like, “yay,” and then 3am, I’m like “I’m ready to sleep.”
to get a tan
To get a tan.
To get a tan in some cultures, this is a good thing.
In some cultures, this is not a good thing.
It means to sit in the sun or lay in the sun
and let the sun change the color of your skin.
Be careful, there are two expressions in English
There is one, “to get a tan,” and another
is “to get a sunburn.”
So, in US culture anyway, getting a tan means,
like, your skin turns, like, a darker, brown color.
But when it turns red, it’s bad.
That means you burned your skin.
So tan, good.
Burn, bad.
So, we have two separate words to describe that.
In a sentence,
“You’ll find me poolside, getting a tan.”
to go hiking
The next expression is “to go hiking.”
So hiking means walking or trekking, usually
in a mountain or in a nature setting.
So, in a sentence,
“I used to go hiking with my family every summer.”
That’s roughly true.
In this sentence,
“I’m going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.”
to work a part-time job
The next expression is to work a part-time job.
To work a part-time job is very common if
you’re a student, especially.
So, when you have your summer vacation,
it’s a chance for you to earn a little bit
of money by working at a part-time job.
In a sentence,
“Unfortunately, she can’t go because she has
to work at her part-time job.”
Wow, when I was a teenager, I had a part-time
job at a golf course.
Yeah, because I was on the golf team at school.
Very convenient, lovely experiences.
A+ everybody.
to have fun with friends
To have fun with friends.
Also something that you do not need to only
do in summer, but which you can do anytime.
We’re having fun now, aren’t we?
Yay!
So “to have fun with friends” is to just enjoy
time with your friends.
It’s great.
In a sentence,
“I love having fun with my friends whenever I can.”
“He has fun with friends, but he doesn’t do
much else.”
to attend summer school
The next one is “to attend summer school.”
To attend summer school usually has kind of
a bad image in, I feel, in the US, anyway.
Because it sounds like maybe you missed something
in regular school.
But for some people, maybe there’s a special
course they want to attend,
or like a special internship program, or just
something special, extra that they would like to study.
In a sentence,
“I hated going to summer school when I was a kid.”
“Since I failed the class, I’ll have to attend summer school.”
So those are 10 things that you can do in
the summer in the US.
Or in many other countries, I think.
If there’s something that you like to do in
the summer in your country, or in any country
for that matter,
let us know in the comments.
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