Short Stories · Section 5
Summer
Yahoo! School is over! We are free for the summer.
Level: A2 · 35 sentences
Transcript
- Yahoo! School is over!
- We are free for the summer.
- My friends and I run out on the last day of school into the bright summer sun.
- We sing a song about "no more pencils, no more books."
- We can hardly wait to do all the summer things that we like to do.
- We go swimming, we play baseball, we ride our bikes and we go to the beach.
- We go on vacations, or some of us go to summer camp.
- It is just nice to run barefoot through the grass or lie on your back and look up at the clouds.
- Summer days are lazy days.
- We don't have to do school work.
- We listen to the buzzing of the bees.
- We watch the birds as they fly from tree to tree.
- We go down to the pond and toss rocks into the water.
- We eat ice cream, and we have barbecues.
- Some of my friend's parents have boats, so we go for rides in their boats.
- Some of my friends go to their cottages.
- They have cottages on lakes.
- Some of my friends even have summer jobs.
- My best friend works at the supermarket.
- My father pays me to do jobs for him.
- I cut the grass, take out the garbage and wash the car.
- I like to be outside in the sunshine.
- On Sundays, my mother will pack a picnic lunch, and we go down to the park.
- Sometimes we play baseball.
- There is also a tennis court at the park.
- I am a very good tennis player.
- My sister just likes to swing on the swings and slide down the slide.
- We eat our sandwiches and watch out for the ants that always seem to be at picnics.
- After we have our lunch, my sister and I run off to play with the other children.
- My Dad has a nap, and my Mother reads her book.
- My skin gets brown from the sun in the summer.
- Summer is my favorite season.
- I like the sounds, smells and feelings that come with the summer sun.
- Summer is a lot of fun.
- I wish summer could go on forever.