[General] ..about your most memorable event on/during last summer vacation.

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wotcha

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1. Write a short essay about your most memorable event during last summer vacation.

2. Write a short essay about your most memorable event on last summer vacation.


Which one sounds better to native speakers?
 

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... in the/your summer holidays (BrE) / vacation.
 

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"During your summer vacation" - if you mean during the period of time that the student was out of school. (We end school in early June and resume in late August here.)

"On your summer vacation" - if you mean while they went on some sort of trip or excursion. During my daughter's summer vacation, we went on a vacation to the beach.
 
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