Seasons and weather (konverzačná téma)

Seasons and weather (konverzačná téma)

Talk about – rozprávajte o:

1. 4 seasons of the year – 4 ročných obdobiach
2. Your favourite season – tvoje obľúbené ročné obdobie
3. Weather – počasie

1. 4 seasons of the year:

The year is divided into 4 seasons:

• Spring  - jar
• Summer - leto
• autumn /fall/ - jeseň
• winter - zima

SPRING – spring is the most beautiful season of the year:

• there is more sunshine and the weather becomes warmer
• the snow melts - sneh sa topí
• nights get shorter and days get longer – noci sa skracujú a dni sa predlžujú
• flowers and trees bloom – kvety a stromy kvitnú /snowdrops – snežienky, dundee-lions – púpavy, daffodils – narcisy/
• birds return from the south – vtáci sa vracajú z juhu
• people start working in the garden
• we have Easter holidays – máme veľkonočné prázdniny

SUMMER – it is the warmest season of the year:

• everything is green – všetko je zelené
• birds sing – vtáci spievajú
• the sky is blue – obloha je modrá
• sometimes there are storms /búrky/ => crash of thunder /hrmí/ and aflash of lightening /blýska sa/.
• We don’t have to go to school in summer => people travel on a holiday in summer and they visit foreign countries – they go to the sea /k moru/, to the mountains /na hory/.

AUTUMN (AmE: FALL) –

• it is the season when the leaves on the trees change their colours – ročné obdobie, kedy lístie na stromoch mení svoju farbu
• at the beginning of autumn the weather is usually still nice and warm – we call this period Indian summer /babie leto/
• the fruit ripens /ovocie dozrieva/ and people pick /zbierať/ it from the trees.
• later days become shorter, weather gets colder, the wind starts blowing – neskôr sa dni skrátia, počasie sa ochladí, vietor začne fúkať
• the trees shed their leaves /opadá lístie/ and it rains a lot /veľa prší/.
• Mornings are foggy /hmlisté/ and there is more frost /mráz/.
• Birds fly to the south.

WINTER – the coldest season of the year:

• It starts snowing and freezing /mrzne/ and the wind is icy /vietor je ľadový/.
• People can do winter sports, such as skiing, snowboarding and ice-skating.
• In December the Christmas time comes and people buy presents to each other – v decembri pride vianočný čas a ľudia si navzájom kupujú darčeky.

1. Your favourite season

My favourite season is summer /winter, spring …/. I like summer because it is the warmest season of the year and because we have a long summer holiday and we don’t have to go to school. I also like summer because I like summer sports, especially playing football, tennis or swimming. In summer we usually go for a holiday with my family – we usually go to Croatia /Chorvátsko/ or we stay in Slovakia and go to Rajec, Podhájska or Senec and we spend a day or two there – we bath and sunbathe. 

I don’t like autumn, because the weather is colder and it rains a lot.

My favourite season is winter because I love winter sports. I am good at skiing and snowboarding and I often go skiing with my friends to Veľká Rača, to Skalité, Makov ... I also like winter because in winter we have Christmas and I like Christmas very much. We have winter holiday at school.

1. Weather

During the year the weather changes a lot. It can be sunny, it can rain, snow, it can be overcast /zamračené/, or it can freeze /mrznúť/. The weather influences many aspects of our lives. It influences:

1. What we wear /čo si obliekame, čo nosíme/ - when the weather is nice and warm, people wear T-shirts, shorts or skirts. On the other hand, in winter, when the weather is cold and when it is freezing, people wear warm clothes – jumpers, coats, gloves, scarves and so on. When it rains, people must take an umbrella or a rain coat.
2. Our mood /našu náladu/ - the weather can influence our mood a lot. When the weather is nice and the sun shines, people feel better – they are happy and they smile more. On the other hand, when the weather is bad, especially in autumn and winter – it rains a lot, it is foggy and cloudy and the days are short, people are melancholic and depressed – statistics say that in autumn and winter there are more suicides /samovraždy/ than in summer.
3. Our health /naše zdravie/ - some people are very sensitive to weather changes. When the weather changes, their health becomes worse or their body hurts – for example their eyes or bones hurt, they have a headache. Especially older people complain about the pain, when the weather changes because their body can’t adapt to the weather changes so quickly.

Vocabulary:

seasons of the year – ročné obdobia

divide - rozdeliť

sunshine – slnečné svetlo

become – stať sa

warm - teplý

everything – všetko

bird – vták

foreign countries – cudzie krajiny

at the beginning – na začiatku

still – ešte stale

call – volať, nazývať

period – obdobie

ice-skating – korčuľovanie

favourite – obľúbený

we don’t have to go to school – nemusíme ísť do školy

also – tiež

like – mať rád

especially – hlavne, najmä

usually – zvyčajne

we stay in Slovakia – zostaneme na Slovensku

we spend a day or two there – strávime tam deň alebo dva

bath – kúpať sa

sunbathe – opaľovať sa

I am good at skiing – som dobrý v lyžovaní

change – zmeniť sa, zmena

a lot – veľa

influence – ovplyvňovať

many aspects of our lives – veľa oblastí v našom živote

shorts – šortky, kraťasy

skirts – sukne

on the other hand – na druhej strane

it is freezing – mrzne

jumpers – sveter

coat – kabát

gloves – rukavice

scarves – šály

an umbrella – dáždnik

a rain coat – pláštenka, pršiplášť

people feel better – ľudia sa cítia lepšie

it is foggy and cloudy – je hmlisto a zamračené

sensitive to – citlivý na niečo

their health becomes worse – ich zdravie sa zhorší

their body hurts – bolí ich telo

bones – kosti

hurt – bolieť

a headache – bolesť hlavy

complain about the pain – sťažovať san a bolesť

their body can’t adapt to the weather changes so quickly – ich telo sa nemôže adaptovať /prispôsobiť sa/ zmenám počasia tak rýchlo.