9th form "On Holidays" Vocabulary

1. The whole point of a holiday is that it should be a ____.

2. Most people like a change of _____; if they live upcountry, they like to go to a big town and spend their time looking at shops and visiting cinemas and art galleries, having gay evenings at hotels and dances.

3. If they are city dwellers, they like a quiet holiday in the hills or by the sea, with nothing to do but _____ and bathe and lie in the sun.

4. But such changes of scene are usually expensive, and many people, from ____ of money, are obliged to spend their holidays in the same surroundings as their working days.

5. What can these do to make their period of rest a ____ holiday?

6. The best thing is to choose some form of occupation _____ different from their daily avocation.

7. The whole virtue of holidays which bring a change of scene and occupation is that it is only _____.

8. Sooner or later it will come to the end, and the holidaymaker goes back to his ____ life.

9. If he has used his holidays well, he ought not to feel a very deep ____ that it is over.

10. However much he has enjoyed it, for it ought to have refreshed him and ____ him with vigour for the true work of his life to which he is now returning.