Talk about – rozprávajte o:
– 4 seasons of the year – 4 ročných obdobiach
– Your favourite season – tvoje obľúbené ročné obdobie
– Weather – počasie
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 a flash 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.
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.
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:
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
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.