Back to school (2)

Many students attend summer school for two sessions, each for three weeks. It usually runs five days a week for four hours a day, plus homework and exams. Most high schools provide intensive courses in summer. Students can take a course and move to the next level when the school year officially starts. The perfect place to say goodbye to summer vacation is the annual county fair. All kinds of carnival rides attract entire families. Traditional American food is served everywhere - hot dogs, pretzels, cotton candy, barbeque... Be sure to go when you're hungry!

The fair is also a place for displays of farm produce. Many farmers also attend the farm-animal competitions. Kids love the horse shows and goat-milking contest. Fun contests like watermelon-seed spitting and tricycle races interest the younger children. Women and girls go to exhibitions of quilts and flowers.

Soon the fairground will be quiet. Instead, kids will gather at the school-bus stop. Summer vacation is over.

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exhibit/exhibition

Let's talk about the difference between exhibition and exhibit.

Now, you must be thinking simple. Exhibition is a noun, and exhibit is a verb.

Very true, but the word "exhibit" can also be a noun. Exhibit can be defined as something that is displayed or shown to the public.

So, what's the difference? The answer is scale. An exhibit is a public showing of an object, usually a work of art or an object meant to educate, or a small collection of objects.

An exhibition, on the other hand, is a public showing of a large selection of such items, often united by a theme. For example, a dinosaur skeleton in the lobby of a museum is an exhibit. And a collection of dinosaur skeletons in a wing of the museum might be called an exhibition.

Other times, an exhibition is regarded as an event with limited duration and a separate admission fee.

Language Lab
intensive adj.
involving a lot of activity, effort, or careful attention in a short period of time
- The players underwent intensive training before the football season began.
intense adj.
having a very strong effect or felt very strongly
- The poem shows the author's intense feelings toward his first love.

officially adv.
publicly or formally
- The couple officially announced their wedding date.
official adj.
approved of or done by someone in authority, especially the government
- The press is still waiting for the police's official statement regarding this case.

competition  n.
- The fierce competition among the contestants on the game show attracted a large audience.
compete v.
- Boys love to compete with each other while playing.

quilt n.
/ˈkwɪlt/
a bed cover with stitched designs that is made of two layers of cloth filled with wool, cotton, or soft feathers
- Pamela's grandma made a quilt for her wedding gift.
- The design on the quilt is a beautiful butterfly.

fairground n.
an open space on which a fair takes place


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