9 Cool Vacations!

Unit 9 VOCABULARY 1 Do you like vacations with lots of people and noise? Or places that are quiet with no people nearby? Let’s find out about some cool vacations! The whole family can enjoy camping together. Bring a tent and sleep in the fresh air. If you hike up a very big mountain, you have to take a guide to help you. Do you like animals and plants? Go on a photo safari and take pictures of wildlife. Stay safe in a truck when there are dangerous wild animals. Do you like history? Go see the ruins of an old city. If you like the modern world, take a tour of a city! But if you like to learn how to protect the natural world, then an ecotour is for you! A resort is a good place to relax and have fun on your vacation. Stay the night at a big hotel. Go to the beach to sit in the sun and swim. Put on sunscreen so that your skin doesn’t burn! Theme parks are full of people having fun! Buy a ticket for an exciting ride, and hear people scream. If the theme park is also a water park, get ready to get wet! 2 Listen and repeat. camping When we go camping, we sleep outside. a tent We set up the tent before it started to rain. hike Let’s hike up the trail to the mountain. a guide Take a guide with you so you don’t get lost. a photo safari You take pictures of animals on a photo safari. wildlife Animals in the forest are wildlife. ruins I went to see the amazing ruins of the old city. a tour On a tour, they take you from place to place. relax My parents like to sit and relax on vacation. a hotel We will stay at a hotel until tomorrow morning. a beach Let’s go to the beach and swim in the ocean. a theme park They are opening a theme park next summer! a ticket You buy a ticket to ride on a train. a water park The water park is fun on hot days.

SONG 1 Listen, read, and sing. If I Went on Vacation Let’s go on vacation! Let’s go on a trip! If we went on vacation, we would take a big ship across the ocean, far, far away. If I had my way, I would go today! Camping and hiking! The beach and the sun! If we went on vacation, it would be so much fun! If we went on a tour, we would see wildlife. I would take lots of photos. Wouldn’t that be so nice? If I had my way, I would go today! I would like to stay at a hotel. You’d like to relax. Camping and hiking! The beach and the sun! If we went on vacation, it would be so much fun! If I weren’t afraid of heights, we could climb a mountain. But I am! So let’s go to the water park and take pictures by the fountain. If I had my way, I would go today!

GRAMMAR 1 Second conditional If we went on a photo safari, I would take pictures of lions. I’d go mountain climbing if I weren’t afraid of heights. He wouldn’t spend all of his time in museums if he didn’t like art. If you had a lot of money, where would you go on vacation?

VOCABULARY 2 1 Listen and repeat. a suitcase I must pack my suitcase with clothes for my trip. sunglasses The sun is really bright. I need my sunglasses. a passport Mom and Dad left my passport at the hotel. a souvenir When I visit a place, I always buy souvenirs. an airport The plane is landing at the airport. 2 Listen and stick. Do you think they had a good vacation? Why? That was a great vacation! Yes! We had so much fun. I don’t want to go home yet. We have to. Our plane leaves today. What time do we have to be at the airport? By noon. And it takes a half-hour to get to the airport. OK. We don’t have much time. I should pack my suitcase soon. What are you putting in your suitcase? My clothes. And some cool stuff I bought. You bought souvenirs? Yes. I bought some souvenirs. What about you? I didn’t buy souvenirs. But I did buy sunglasses. Yeah! I like your sunglasses. They are cool! Thanks. The sun at the beach hurt my eyes. OK. I guess we should get ready. Don’t forget your passport. My passport? Oh, the hotel has that. That’s right. We need to get our passports back when we leave. What a cool vacation this was! Yeah! It was sweet! GRAMMAR 2 Would rather I would rather go on an ecotour than go to a theme park. We’d rather go on a tour than stay at the hotel. He’d rather not eat at that restaurant.

READING 1 Listen and read. Tree House Vacation Are you ready for a great eco-adventure? Have your vacation in a tree house! You can find them all over the world. Tree house vacations are in places such as Peru, Kenya, Belize, and India. There’s a lot to do in nature! In India, there are tree house bedrooms from 10 to 25 meters (35–80 feet) up a tree. There’s a bamboo elevator to carry you up. It’s powered by water! The electricity you use comes from the sun. And there are trails to hike and natural swimming pools to swim in. You can visit your neighbor by walking on a bridge made of rope! You can stay in comfort at a tree house in Kenya. It has two floors, and the rooms have big beds. The windows have colored glass, and the bathrooms have showers. There’s a small kitchen, too. The hotel serves food in your room! And if you get tired of living in nature, the city of Nairobi is about 30 minutes away. In Belize, you can live with parrots under a Guanacaste tree that is about 30 meters (100 feet) tall. The parrots make good neighbors because they eat the insects! There are other birds, too. It’s a great place for bird-watching. A river runs around the tree house on three sides. The clear water is good for swimming! In Peru, you can stay in a bungalow, or a lodge, near the Yarapa River in the Amazon rain forest. The main lodge connects to the other 10 bungalows by passageways and steel cable bridges. One of the bungalows has a view of the Yarapa River. You can watch people fish in the river and you might even see a river dolphin. Sometimes you can see monkeys pass by your room as they look for food!