SUMMER FACTS
What is the hottest season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere?
Which food is usually eaten with a cone?
Ice-cream
What do you call the soft material that covers many beaches and gets EVERYWHERE after your holiday?
Sand
Which tiny flying insect loves biting people on summer nights?
A mosquito
What do you call the place where you sleep when you are travelling and paying for a room?
What do you usually put on your skin to protect it from the sun?
Sunscreen / sun cream.
Which fruit is famous for being large, rounded, green on the outside and is especially popular in summer?
Watermelon
What do you wear to protect your eyes from bright sunlight?
Sunglasses / Sunnies
What annoying substance gets all over your body when you go to the beach?
Sand
What do you call the bags you take with you when you travel?
Luggage / Baggage
Which is usually the hottest month in Spain?
What do you call a drink made by mixing fruit, sugar and water?
Lemonade
What do you call the large waves produced by an underwater earthquake that can reach the coast?
A Tsunami
What do you call the unpleasant condition caused by spending too much time in very hot weather?
Heat exhaustion.
If your plane leaves at 10:00 and you arrive at 10:15, what have you done?
You have missed your flight
What is the name of the phenomenon when the days are longer and the nights are shorter around June?
The summer solstice.
Which Spanish cold soup is traditionally made with tomatoes and other vegetables?
Gazpacho
What is the name of the sport in which you stand on a board and ride waves?
Surfing
What is the word for the sticky feeling you get when your body produces liquid because you are hot?
Sweat / sweating
If you suddenly discover that your passport is missing while travelling abroad, what have you probably lost?
Your passport or ID card