This PPT gives useful ESL vocabulary for summer holidays, including words like tan, sunburn, sun cream, and so on. It features examples and two short tests.

1. Summer
Vocabulary
Let’s talk about summer holidays

2. Discuss
Talk with a small group.
• What did you do during the summer holiday?

3. Expanding Vocabulary
In English, don’t repeat the same word too often.
Use synonyms.
Holiday = vacation, break
Examples:
• What did you do during the summer holiday?
• I went to France during the summer break.
• We had a great summer vacation.

4. Sunny Days
Many people go to the beach
on holiday. They like to be in
the sunshine.
Look at the photos. What can
you see?

5. Sunbathe
(verb)
- sit or lie in the
sun

6. Sunbathe
Examples:
“My sister is so boring. Whenever we go to the beach,
she just sunbathes! I want to go play in the sea!”
“I love sunbathing in the garden during the afternoon.”
“It’s hard to find a place to sunbathe when the beach is
so busy.”

7. Before
After
Tan
(verb, noun,
adjective)
- relating to the
sun making
your skin
darker

8. Tan
Examples
“Look at Fred. He has an amazing tan.” (noun)
“I’m so jealous of Suzie. She tans so easily.” (verb)
“You look so tanned now. Where did you go on
holiday?” (adj.)

9. Note
In English, we don’t say someone becomes “black”. We
don’t often say someone gets “dark”.
Instead, use “tan”.
“Wow, you’ve gotten really black.”
“Wow, you’ve gotten really tanned.”
“I don’t see why people want to get dark.”
“I don’t see why people want to get tanned.”

10. Sun cream
Sun screen
Sun lotion
(noun)
- products to
protect skin from
the sun

11. Sun cream/ screen/ lotion
Examples:
“You should put on sun cream before
going to the beach.”
“Remember to re-apply sun screen after
swimming.”

12. Sunburn
(noun/verb/
adjective)
- redness or
blistering of the
skin caused by the
sun

13. Sunburn
Examples:
“Avoid being outside from 11am to 2pm or else you
may get sunburn.” (verb)
“He had a bright red sunburned face.” (adj.)
“I had awful sunburn last summer.” (noun)

14. Note
When using the verb, you can simply say “burn”.
“I got burned really badly at the beach last week.”

15. Tan line
(noun)
- marks where the
sun didn’t tan your
skin

16. Tan lines
Examples
“Oh no, I have really
bad tan lines from
cycling yesterday!”

17. tanned
?
Pale
(adjective)
- light skin
colour

18. Pale
Examples:
“Some people really don’t want to get tanned. They
prefer pale skin.”
“My skin just goes from really pale to completely
burned – it’s so annoying!”
“Why do people want to be pale? Tan lines are sexy.”

19. Note
In English, we don’t say “white” very often.
“She had really white skin.”
“She had really pale skin.”
“He’s tanned now but usually he’s very white.”
“He’s tanned now but usually he’s very pale.”

20. Test
You now have a few minutes to
look at the text on the following
page. Try to fill in the blanks with
words you have learned today.
Change the tense or form
accordingly.

21. During the summer holidays I went to Spain with my
family. It’s always rainy in England so we love
____1____ whenever we go abroad. My sister
____2____ really well but I don’t; if I don’t put on
enough ____3____, I get ____4____ after about an
hour! This year, my dad fell asleep when reading a book
and got some really funny ____5____! We all laughed
at him, but you do need to be careful. If you get
____6____ too often, you may get skin cancer when
you’re older.

22. During the summer holidays I went to Spain with my
family. It’s always rainy in England so we love
sunbathing whenever we go abroad. My sister tans
really well but I don’t; if I don’t put on enough sun
cream, I get burned after about an hour! This year, my
dad fell asleep when reading a book and got some
really funny tan lines! We all laughed at him, but you do
need to be careful. If you get burned too often, you
may get skin cancer when you’re older.

23. Test
Now look at the following
passage. There are some mistakes.
Find them and correct them.

24. In July, it gets pretty hot where I live. I like to go
play football with my friends, but my skin is
really white so I get burned easily. My mum tells
me to put on sun cream but I don’t mind getting
black. I think it looks really cool. Sometimes I
turn red, though, and I feel pretty stupid.

25. In July, it gets pretty hot where I live. I like to go
play football with my friends, but my skin is
really pale so I get burned easily. My mum tells
me to put on sun cream but I don’t mind getting
tanned. I think it looks really cool. Sometimes I
get sunburned, though, and I feel pretty stupid.

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