A Taste of Summer

Listen to the podcast.

Where do Julio and Carmen go to get their strawberries?

to a strawberry farm
to a supermarket
to a fruit market

Listen to the podcast again.

How many times do you hear the word strawberry or strawberries?

17 times

True or False

1 True Julio and Carmen got up early.
2 False The sign read 'Buy Your Own'.
3 False Strawberries were plentiful last week.
4 True You can only get local strawberries for a few weeks in June.
5 True They picked strawberries from the eighth row.
6 False Carmen ate some strawberries as she picked.
7 False Strawberries will ripen even after they've been picked.
8 True Carmen wanted the berries for strawberry jam.
9 False They stopped to pick up some coffee and ice cream on the way home.
10 True Julio likes to eat sliced strawberries on peanut butter.
11 False They were going to have strawberry pie for dessert.
12 True Raspberry season is after strawberry season.

Choose the best answer.

1 Marie went to the garage sale very late. She didn't see anything she liked and there wasn't much left. She said there were really slim pickings.

2 Strawberries grow very low to the ground so they had to squat down to pick them.

3 Don works in quality control at the factory. It's his job to make sure the
cameras are perfect before they are shipped out.

4 We try to eat our fill of lobster when we are on the East Coast.

5 Wide-brimmed hats are good for keeping the hot sun off your face and neck.

6 Sometimes people add a little pectin so that their jam will not be runny.