Annie Berke

SUMMER STORIES
STUDENT #1: I'm glad to                               (verb) school again — summer totally stresses me out!

STUDENT #2: Stresses you out? But summer is the most                               (adjective) season! No school, and the weather is                               (adjective) all the time & I spent my whole summer by the                               (noun), reading trashy magazines like US Weekly and                               (magazine).

STUDENT #1: Well, while you were reading about                               (celebrity)'s secret rendezvous in                               (geographical location), I felt                               (adjective) reading about the situation in the Middle East in the New York Times.

STUDENT #2: You should have visited the beach nothing is more                               (adjective) than the sound of the                               (plural noun) lapping up on the shore. I went to the beach                               (adverb) and came away with this killer tan!

STUDENT #1: Sure you did, but did you ever                               (verb) to think about why it has become so scorchingly                               (adjective)? Or do you not want to consider that inconvenient truth?

STUDENT #2: I actually didn't have a chance to see that movie.

STUDENT #1: I saw it                               (number) times.

STUDENT #2: Wow.

STUDENT #1: Yeah.

STUDENT #2: Did you do anything fun on your summer vacation? My best friend from high school went on a (noun) trip: they drove around and visited                               (number) states!

STUDENT #1: I would have loved that, but only in an electric                               (noun). Of course, those were all killed.

STUDENT #2: But by who? STUDENT #1: By the                               (noun) companies.

STUDENT #2: Oh. Well, now I am                               ing (verb) to see why you                               (verb) summer so much.

STUDENT #1: You do?

STUDENT #2: Absolutely.

STUDENT #1: You're welcome!