Seasons and Weather.

I. Phonetic Drills:

ea, ee – [ɪ:] sea, mean, clean, stream, steam, eat, meat, keen,see, tree, steel, street, fleet,deem

ear, eer – [ɪə] dear, near, rear, fear, sear, hear, ear, tear, deer, leer, engineer, pioneer, seer

II. Names of months & seasons:

months	transcription	months	transcription
1.January	['ʤænjuərɪ]	7.July	[ʤu'laɪ]
2.February	['februərɪ]	8.August	['ɔːgəst]
3.March	[mɑʧ]	9.September	[sep'tembə]
4.April	['eɪpr(ə)l]	10.October	[ɔk'təubə]
5.May	[meɪ]	11.November	[nəu'vembə]
6.June	[ʤuːn]	12.December	[dɪ'sembə]

days of week	transcription	days of week	transcription	seasons	transcription
1.Sunday	['sʌndeɪ][dɪ]	5.Thursday	['θɜːzdeɪ]	winter	['wɪntə]
2.Monday	['mʌndeɪ]	6.Friday	['fraɪdeɪ]	spring	[sprɪŋ]
3.Tuesday	['tjuːzdeɪ]	7.Saturday	['sætədeɪ]	summer	['sʌmə]
4.Wednesday	['wenzdeɪ]			autumn (fall)	['ɔːtəm]

Saturday & Sunday are days off (a weekend). Mon. Tue. Wed. Thurs. Fr. are week days.

Exercise1. Read & translate the short dialogues. Dramatize them.

• What days do you study at college?

• We study on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

• What days have you got days off?

• We’ve got days off on Saturday and Sunday.

• And what about Wednesday?

• Oh, on Wednesday we’ve got our teacher practice at school.

• What month were you born in?

• I was born in August.

• Were you? It is a summer month, isn’t it?

• Sure, it is.

III. Learn the new words:

1. opinion	думка	10. till the soil	орати землю	19. cornflower	волошка
2. attractive	привабливий	11. sow seeds	сіяти зерна	20. poppy	мак
3. pleasant	приємний	12. nightingale	соловей	21. rise	підніматись
4. awaken	прокидатися	13. migrant	перелітний	22. set	сідати
5. buds	бруньки	14. nest	гніздо	23. cloud	хмара
6. shoot out	розпускати	15. lay	класти	24. lie in the sun	засмагати
7. leaves	листя	16. hatch	висиджувати	25. swim	плавати
8. meadow	луг	17. merry	веселий	26. ripen	визрівати
9. bloom	квітнути	18. cornfield	засіяне поле	27. harvest	врожай

Exercise2. Match the words:

1. cloud	думка	7. pleasant	врожай
2. opinion	привабливий	8. nightingale	ластівка
3. migrant	приємний	9. lie in the sun	перелітний
4. poppy	веселий	10.swallow	хмара
5. harvest	плавати	11. attractive	засмагати
6. merry	мак	12. swim	соловей

There are four seasons in the year. They are spring, summer, autumn & winter.

Englishmen say, “There is no bad weather, there are bad clothes”. It means that they like all the seasons and all kinds of weather. Every season is good in its own way. In my opinion every season is beautiful and attractive.

Spring. Many people think that the most pleasant season is spring. In spring nature awakens from its long winter sleep. The days get longer & the nights shorter. It grows warmer. The trees open their buds & shoot out

new leaves. The meadows grow green, flowers begin to bloom. Farmers till the soil & sow seeds. Nightingales, swallows & other migrant birds come back from the south. They build their nests, lay & hatch their eggs & sing their merry songs. The cornfields are bright with blue cornflowers & red poppies. March & April are spring months in GB.

Summer is the warmest season. The sun rises earlier & earlier & sets later & later. In June we have the longest days & the shortest nights. The weather is fine, the sky is blue & cloudless. It is hot in summer. We can lie in the sun, swim in the river & sea. Pupils & students have their long summer holidays. The sun ripens the corn, vegetables & fruit & the farmers get ready for the harvest.