Hello dear readers! Have you ever thought about how often you mention the seasons and talk about the weather? Whether it's communicating with colleagues, e-mails, talking on the phone - we do it all almost every day. We discuss what the weather is like outside today, talk about our favorite time of the year, or say what time of the year our birthday is. seasons

What if you're learning English or chatting on social media with a British or American friend? And if you were asked to write an essay in English on the topic “Seasons” at school or university? As you may have guessed, today we will talk about how to name the seasons in English, or as they are called in English - seasons.

How to name the months, days of the week and seasons in English is one of the most important topics that anyone who has begun to learn English must know. These are the basics that will help you communicate with native speakers when writing letters, messages, or when traveling and traveling abroad. In addition, knowing the seasons of the year in English is useful for general development.

First, let's list the seasons, write their pronunciation and translation:

  • winter ["wɪntə] - winter
  • spring - spring
  • summer ["sʌmə] - summer
  • autumn ["ɔːtəm] (in the UK) or fall in the USA - autumn

As you can see, the Americans refer to "autumn" differently from the British. They prefer to call this season "fall". Do not confuse with the action verb "fall".

If you need to write an essay or just talk about the seasons in English, then this should be done as follows:

First you need to list all the seasons, something like this: the year has four seasons - winter, spring, summer, autumn. Then you can tell which months are in each season. And after that, go on to describe each season: weather phenomena, events in nature or in people's lives.

These translation exercises will help you write essays and memorize the topic.

Grammar

What grammar rules in English do you need to remember in order to use the seasons correctly in speech and writing?

  • You already know that in America they use “in the fall” instead of “in autumn”
  • With the designation of the seasons, the preposition "in" is used: in summer
  • Only in the combination "in the fall" is the article used, in all other cases it is not used with the seasons
  • The article is put only when it is implied or there is a qualifying definition: in the winter of 1953
  • In combinations of the nouns "winter, spring, summer, autumn" with the words "That, all, every, any, one, each, next, last, this", neither the article nor the preposition is used: this spring
  • Finally, only two seasons are used in the possessive case - autumn and spring: This autumn's festival... but The festival this winter...

Only 6 simple rules.

Like a shower

This popular expression characterizing the heavy autumn rain is familiar to us from childhood. In English, too, there are such phraseological units. So they call a downpour with a cold strong wind the phrase “it is raining cats and dogs”, which means “rain from cats and dogs”. Why cats and dogs?

This English idiom comes from the past. Previously, people believed that witches turn into cats and, foreshadowing bad weather, fly under the clouds on broomsticks. And the dogs, according to legend, were the servants of Odin, the god of thunder, and personified the wind. Meeting under the clouds together, cats and dogs, along with rain and wind, fell down.

Another suggestion was made by the famous writer Jonathan Swift, who used this expression in one of his works. Where it was described that the drainage system in the cities of the 17th and 18th centuries could not withstand a heavy downpour, and all the contents of the sewer spilled into the street, including the corpses of cats, dogs and rats.

In the article, the audio material is British and American accents - audio versions:

And here I posted information, as it will be in English

seasons in english

  • Winter - Winter - [ˈwintəɹ]
  • Spring - Spring -
  • Summer - [ˈsʌməɹ]
  • Autumn - Autumn / Brit / - [ˈɔːtəm]
  • Autumn - Fall - /amer/ -

Pronunciation of the Seasons - British Accent

Month pronunciation - British accent

Pronunciation of the names of the months - American accent

It will not be superfluous to listen to how to pronounce the word Months - months. The pronunciation of this word sometimes causes difficulties, because. in the composition of this word there is a hard-to-pronounce sound for Russians, the sound ‘th’.
And also, below, I posted sentences with translation using the months of the year in English.

How to pronounce Months in English

Fasten the material.
Answer the questions in English.

1. What season is now? What season is it now?
2. When is New Year? When is the New Year?
3. When is your birthday? When's your birthday?

Answer examples:

1. It's Summer. It's Spring. Now it's summer, spring.
2. In Winter. New Year in winter.
3. In Fall. My birthday is in the fall.

Offers with months of the year in English with translation

1. I'll see you in January. See you in January.
2. In February it snows a lot. There is a lot of snow in February.
3. In March it seems like it's always raining. It always seems to rain in March.
4. Last April we went to Europe. Last April we went to Europe.
5. My birthday is May 5th. My birthday is May 5th.
6. In June Summer begins. Summer begins in June.
7. In July we celebrate the birthday of America. In July we celebrate the birthday of America.
8. In August it's always so hot. August is always so hot.
9. In September we begin our school year. Our school year starts in September.
10. October is the beginning of Fall. October is the beginning of autumn.
11. November is my favorite month. November is my favorite month.
12. In December we have Christmas. We have Christmas in December.

["ɔːgəst]
September -
October - [ɔk "təubə]
November -
December -

2 Some features of the use of words denoting months and seasons in English

1. Please note that the names of the months of the year are always capitalized.

2. To separate the day and month from the year, a comma is placed in the dates:

Was born June 14, 1940– He was born on June 14, 1940.
It happened in May, 1977 It happened in May 1977.

3. With the names of the seasons, the article is used only in cases where there is or is implied a clarifying definition: in the spring of 1962.

4. When denoting full (indicating the day / month / year) dates, the number is indicated by the ordinal number, and the year by the quantitative one, and the word year not pronounced: on January 17, 1992 = on the seventeenth of June, nineteen ninety-two.


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3 The use of prepositions with the names of months and seasons in English

1. Prepositions with a word month:

by the month- monthly;
for a month- within a month;
in a month- a month later.

2. In combinations of the names of the months with the words all, any, each, every, last, next, one, this prepositions are not put before them: March this March– in March of this year.

3. In the circumstances of time with the name of the month, the preposition is used in: April- in April, early in April- at the beginning of April, but if the date / day in the month is indicated, then the preposition is used on: on the second of April- the second of April, on a bright April day on a bright April day.
If the date is used in an attribute function, then the preposition is used of: a letter of April the second- letter dated April 2 (dated April 2).

4. The preposition is used with the names of the seasons in: in autumn.

5. In combinations of nouns autumn, summer, spring, winter, year, day, week, month with words all, any, each, every, last, next, this, that or one neither prepositions nor articles are used before them: this month- this month, last month- last month month, next month- next month.

You may come any day you like- You can come any day.
Not arrived last week (month, autumn) He arrived last week (last month, last fall).
We go to the country every summer We go to the village every summer.


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4 Songs about the months of the year in English

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5 Song about the seasons in English

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6 Months of the year in English idioms

a month of Sundays- joke. long time, all eternity
not in a month of Sundays / never in a month of Sundays- when the cancer whistles on the mountain; after rain on Thursday, i.e. never
fence month- time of year when hunting is prohibited

January barometer- exchanges. "January barometer" (a method of predicting the situation on the market, according to which market activity increases in those years when the value of the Standard & Poor's 500 index increases in January, and decreases with a decrease in the value of this index in January)

February fill dike- rainy period (usually February); letters. "filling the ditches" (an epithet for February, distinguished (in England) by heavy rains and snowfalls); (Scottish) Aquarius-month
February fair maid– snowdrop

March beer- March beer (seasonal drink, produced mainly by tradition; goes on sale in mid-March and is sold for no more than a month)
the Ideas of March- the Ides of March, the fifteenth of March (the date became famous in history, since on this day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated)

Aprilfish- April Fool's joke
April Fool- Victim of an April Fool's joke
April weather- 1) then rain, then the sun; 2) then laughter, then tears
April Fools Day- "all fools' day", April 1st (prank day)

May- (at Cambridge University) a) = Mays Mays exams; b) (Mays) rowing races (late May or early June)
May and December/January- marriage between a young girl and an old man
may day- The first of May
Mayflower- a flower that blooms in May: maynik, lily of the valley, hawthorn
May-queen- a girl chosen for her beauty as the queen of May (in the May games)


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7 Seasons in English idioms

full of the joys of spring- joke. radiant and cheerful, overflowing with optimism and energy
day spring- dawn, dawn

to summer and winter– 1) spend the whole year; 2) stay true; 3) leave unchanged; 4) long and detailed discussion of smth.
summer and winter, winter and summer– all year round
a woman of some thirty summers a woman in her thirties
Indian (St. Martin's, St. Luke's) summer- Indian summer
summer lightning- lightning
summer time- "daylight saving time" (when the clock is set one hour ahead)
summer sausage– dry smoked sausage, raw smoked sausage

in the autumn of life- in old age

green winter- snowless, mild winter
blackberry/dogwood/redbud winter- razg. spring frosts (coinciding with the flowering of blackberries, dogwood, crimson)
winter cherry– physalis
wintertide- a poet. winter
fall-winter- end of winter
after-winter- the return of winter
Winter War– "Winter War" (war between the USSR and Finland in 1939–40)


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8 Seasons and months of the year in English proverbs and signs

One crow does not make a winter.
One crow does not make winter.

One woodcock doesn't make a winter.
One woodcock does not make winter.

They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
Those who do not want to work in the summer will starve in the winter.

Blossom in spring - fruit in autumn.
Blooms in spring - bears fruit in autumn.

One swallow does not make a summer.
One swallow does not make summer.

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
If you do not sow in the spring, there will be nothing to harvest in the fall.

April is the cruellest month.
April is the most cruel month.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
March comes like a lion and goes like a lamb. (March comes with a storm, and leaves with warmth.)

March grass never did good.
Early grass will not be of any use.

April showers brings May flowers.
Rain in April, flowers in May.

A warm January, a cold May.
Warm January - cold May.

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9 Games, songs and fairy tales in English about the months and seasons (flash)

Origin of the names of the months of the year in English

In many languages, including English and Russian, the names of the months are of Latin origin. In the ancient Roman calendar, the year consisted of ten months, and March was considered the first month. Later, at the turn of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. e., a calendar was borrowed from Etruria, in which the year was divided into 12 months: after December, January and February followed. Months in English and their equivalents from the Roman calendar:
March/Martius - named after the god Mars;
April/Aprilis - named, presumably, from the Latin word aperire - to open (beginning of spring), (according to another version, the month is named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite);
May/Maius - named after the Roman goddess Maya;
June/ Junius - named after the goddess Juno;
July/ Quintilis, later Julius - named after Julius Caesar in 44 BC. (previously the month was called from the word quintus - the fifth, because it was the 5th month of the old Roman calendar, which began in March and consisted of ten months);
august/Sextilis, later Augustus - named after Emperor Augustus in 8 BC. (previously called from the word sextus - sixth);
September/September - from the word septem - seven;
October/October - from the word octo - eight;
October/ November - from the word novem - nine;
December/ December - from the word decem - ten;
January/Januarius - named after the god Janus;
February/ Februarius - month of purifications, from lat. februare - to purify, to make an atoning sacrifice at the end of the year.


According to information " Wikipedia".

Abbreviated names of the months of the year in English

January - January/Jan
February - Feb/Feb
March - March/Mar
April - April/April
May - May/May
June - June/June
July - July/July
August - August/Aug
September - September/Sept/Sep
October - October/Oct
November - November/Nov
December - December/Dec

Coloring pages, riddles and exercises on the topic: seasons and months of the year in English

Children's poems about the seasons and months of the year in English

Thirty days hated September... (1)

Thirty days has September,
April, June and November;
February has twenty-eight alone.

But leap year coming once in four
Gives February one day more.

(hash = has; alone- one; only; all the rest- other; leap year coming once in four a leap year that occurs every four years

Thirty days hated September... (2)

Thirty days hated September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap-year, that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.

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March winds
April showers
Bright forth
May flowers.

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(translated by S. Ya. Marshak)

Windy in March
Rain in April
In May violets and
Wait for the lilies of the valley.

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Cut thistles in May
they grow in a day;
Cut them in June
That is too soon;
Cut them in July
Then they will die.

(to cut- cut, cut thistle- bot. thistle; to die- die, perish

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Spring is showery, flowery, bowery;
Summer - hoppy, croppy, poppy;
Autumn - wheezy, sneezy, freeze;
Winter - slippy, drippy, nippy.

(showery- rainy; flowery- blooming; bowery- shady; hoppy- intoxicating; croppy- round-headed; poppy- poppy; wheezy- wheezing; sneezy- sneezing; freeze- freezing; slippy- sleepy; drippy- stupid; Nippy- frosty)

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A swarm of bees in May
is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.

(a swarm of bees- swarm of bees; is worth- costs; a load of hay- a cart of hay; a silver spoon- silver spoon; fly- fly)

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In Spring I look gay,
Decked in a comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in Winter quite naked appear.

cold and raw the north wind doth blow,
Bleak in the morning early;
All the hills are covered with snow,
And winter "s now come fairly.

The First of May

The fair maid who, the first of May,
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn-tree,
Will ever after handsome be.


What season do Americans like?

36% of Americans say spring is their favorite season spring. 27% prefer autumn/ autumn, 25% – summer/ summer, 11% - winter / winter. It is curious that the love for the seasons depends on age: young Americans are more fond of summer / summer, and the elderly - winter / winter.
The most beloved months of the year by Americans - May / May(chosen by 14% of respondents), October/ October(13%), June/ June and december/ December(12% each). The vast majority of US residents do not like January / January, February/ February and March/ March.

Seasons of a year

Each of four seasons has its own charm and beauty. Spring revives nature, summer breathes with numerous scents and autumn brings grace and nostalgia. Severe winter hardens us in its specific manner. Common weather of seasons determines their mood. Thoughtful watching of changing of showers, snows, bright and dull days makes fill gratitude to the nature.

Seasons (text translation)

Each season is distinguished by its charm and beauty. Spring brings nature to life, summer is filled with many scents, and autumn is full of nostalgia and grace. The harsh winter tempers us in its own way. The weather characteristic of the season also determines its mood. Thoughtful observation of the change of rains, snows, bright and cloudy days causes a feeling of gratitude.

Spring awakening

At spring nature wakes from long winter sleep. Weather becomes warmer from day to day, plants are blooming and all living creatures show their voices. Appearing of snowdrops claims complete authority of spring. Warm sun and short rains closer summer days and first May thunderstorm claims begging of completely warm days.

Spring awakening (text translation)

In spring, nature wakes up from a long winter sleep. It is getting warmer day by day, plants are blooming and all living beings are giving voices. The appearance of snowdrops means the full rights of spring. The warm sun and short rains bring summer closer, and the first thunderstorm in May heralds really warm weather.

summers growth

Summer turns everything around in a bright green. Meadows are cowered with green, upper branches of trees are even greener. Millions of scents are floating in the air and everything lives and breathes. But summer night is the most special time when one can admire starry skies.

Heat of middle summer diluted with short but intense showers bring beautiful rainbows. But blessed summer days eventually come to their end signed by first yellow leaves.

Summer growth (text translation)

Summer dresses everything around in lush green colors. The meadows are covered with greenery, and tree crowns are even greener. Millions of wonderful smells are in the air, and everything lives and breathes. But best of all are warm summer nights with insanely starry skies. And the summer heat, diluted with frisky short showers, gives us beautiful rainbows. But the luxurious summer days are ending, as the first yellow leaves speak.

autumn grace

Autumn is filled with graceful falling of leaves, frequent rains and heavy clouds. It seems to be dull and sad yet nature becomes delightfully beautiful in autumn. Numerous shades of orange, red and brown in whirling and rustling leaves are indescribable. And when all leaves had fall to the ground naked trees are marking coming of winter.

Autumn grace (text translation)

Autumn is filled with elegant swirling leaves, rain and heavy clouds. The season seems dull and boring, but in autumn nature acquires a completely unique beauty. The many shades of red, yellow and brown in the swirling and rustling leaves are indescribable. But when they all fall, the bare trees herald the coming of winter.

winters majesty

Winter is the white queen which covers everything with cold, soft and fluffy blanket of snow. Nature sleeps restoring strength before new coil of year cycle. Days are dark and short and nights are long and cold. Yet sleeping nature is beautiful in its own way. Moon sparkles on snow, all sounds are muted and majesty of winter remains until first warming.

Winter Majesty (text translation)

Winter is a white queen who covers everything with a cold white blanket of snow. Nature is sleeping, restoring strength for a new round of the annual cycle. The days are dark and short, the nights are long and cold. But sleeping nature is beautiful in its own way. The moon shines on a clean blanket of snow, the sounds are muffled and the winter grandeur remains until the first warming.

There are four seasons in a year - winter, spring, summer and autumn. And, I think, every season has a charm of its own.

Winter is the coldest season of the year. Winter months are December, January and February. The weather is very cold. The sun is shining but it's not warm. It gets dark earlier and sunrise is later. The days are short and gloomy and the nights are long. Winter is a very beautiful season and many people like it very much. It usually snows in winter. So, the ground is covered with snow. The trees and the roofs are white with snow, too. The water in the rivers and lakes freezes. People start wearing warm clothes. It is such a pleasure to walk when it is not very cold and it is snowing. Winter is the ideal time for those who go in for winter sports. Many people like winter because they can go skiing, skating, playing hockey and other winter games.

Spring comes straight after long cold winter time and brings three wonderful months - March, April and May. Everybody usually is looking forward to spring because it is a very nice and beautiful season. The weather is getting warmer and warmer, everything is changing, the nature is waking up. The birds return from the hot countries and build their nests. They sing sweetly on the branches of the trees. The trees become greener. The greenery is fresh and young in the streets, in the parks and in the yards. The weather is usually fine and it is warm. Sometimes it rains but usually the sun is shining brightly.

After spring there comes summer. Oh, how people usually wait for summer to come! Spring is the most favorite part of the year for all people. This season makes everyone so happy! Shining sun makes everybody smile and laugh and look at their life positively. Summer months are June, July and August. It is warm. The sky is blue and cloudless. The days are again longer and the nights are shorter. There are many nice flowers around in the parks and squares in summer. The pupils have summer holidays so they don't go to school. People go on vacation or to the countryside. Summer is the best part of the year for the students too. In summer there is the longest day and the shortest night in the year on the 21st-22nd of June. July is the middle month of summer. It is hot and sun shines brightly. August is the last summer month some times it is cold in August, but there are many mushrooms, berries and fruits. All of us enjoy bright flowers, fruits that summer brings.

After summer comes autumn. September, October and November are autumn months. The weather is very changeable in this season. You can see yellow, red, brown leaves everywhere. It is time to gather the harvest. Sometimes autumn weather is bad. There are a lot of rainy days. So, the roads are dirty. Students and pupils begin schooling. The warm days of early autumn art called the “Golden Autumn”. The “Golden Autumn” is really beautiful with its yellow, red and brown trees and golden leaves falling down. Autumn is the season of fruits and vegetables.

Translation of some words:

a season- season, charm- charm, charm, winter- winter, spring- Spring, summer- summer, autumn- autumn, to get dark- darken sunrise- sunrise, gloomy- cloudy a roof- roof, to freeze- freeze to wear- wear, pleasure- pleasure, straight after- right after a branch- branch, a nest- nest, to wake up- wake up cloudless- cloudless vacation- holidays, vacations, a mushroom- mushroom.