Listening exercise: Camping at Pawtuckaway

Above photo: The edge of the lake at camping site #7 at Pawtuckaway State Park in New Hamphire by Cody Carlson – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4229439

Listen to the audio file and answer the questions below:

Vocabulary:

• State Park
• southern
• log => billot, bois rond, buche
• wooded
• oval
• tent
• put up => monter, ériger
• promised
• ocean
• ice-cold => glacial
• quiet
• roasted
• shooting stars => étoiles filantes
• noise
• racoon => raton laveur
• double
• woods
• canoes

Questions

Answer in English, using complete sentences

1. Where is Pawtuckaway State Park?
2. How did we get a cabin?
3. What is the first thing that we did when we got there?
4. Where did the children sleep?
5. How far is Hampton Beach? Why weren’t there any people swimming at Hampton Beach?
6. Why did the children come to sleep in our bed during the second night?
7. How long was our stay in Pawtuckaway State Park?