Seasons
Seasons
SEASONS
1)
Everybody knows that there are
four seasons in a year and every season is good on its own way with its own
charm.
2)
Consider autumn for example.
3)
In September and November it is
still warm and the sun shines brightly in the blue cloudless sky.
4)
But November brings cool winds,
nasty and gloomy days.
5)
And how nasty cold autumn rain is!
Sometimes it rains for hours!
6)
Nature is falling slowly asleep.
7)
But there are people who like autumn,
they say, it is the time of harvest, golden leaves, it’s the time when the
nature is very attractive.
8)
Poets of all nations have sung
autumn as the most beautiful time of the year.
9)
“Golden autumn,” they call it.
Golden, indeed. Yet autumn does not appeal to me very much.
10) I like winter much better
with its frost and snow.
11) But I should say winter
is not very cold in our place without awful snowstorms and deep snowdrifts, it
is becoming milder due to the greenhouse effect.
12) Although the average t
is -5 C, it sometimes freezes up to -20 C.
13)We enjoy skating, skiing
or tobogganing when there is much snow, but snowless winters are also possible
in Belarus.
14) Then we have the New Year
Eve with a lot of presents.
15) It’s my favourite holiday
and I like it very much.
16) Snow covers the ground
from December to March and it seems that winter will never end.
17) But March brings us hopes
and nature wakes up after a long sleep, birds come back from warm countries and
everything around us promises something new and exiting.
18) I think nobody is sorry
when winter is over with its long black nights and the wind howling outside.
19) We suddenly start feeling
the new air; we can see the real beauty around us.
20) Trees burst into leaves,
fresh and lovely, the air smells of young grass and first flowers.
Everything is filled with
life pleasures.
21) To my mind, spring is the
most marvelous season of the year and we often go to the country in order to
get in touch with nature and enjoy its beauty.
22) While time goes on spring
turns to summer.
23) The great Russian poet A.
Pushkin wrote: “Oh, summer fine! I’d love you but for the heat, the mosquitoes
and flies!”
24) I share his opinion, but
it wouldn’t be fair not to consider the brighter side of the picture.
25) Being on a hot day in a
cool river, picking berries and mushrooms, lying in the sun on the beach…
26) We enjoy every minute of
the weather, but the main thing is certainly having a three-month holiday.
27) In summer we have new
meetings, new impressions, merry time.
28) But summer is over and
autumn comes and everything starts from the very beginning.
29) So to cut the long story
short, I must admit that I couldn’t say what my favourite season is.
30) I like and admire them
all because each of them is beautiful in its own way.
31) Summer is for rest,
autumn is romantic anв a bit
sad, but it is a good time to think over our life anв ourselves, winter is for work and study, spring is the
time to fill in with a new life.
32) I’d like to finish my
topic with these lines:
“Man is a
fool
When it’s
hot, he wants it cool,
When
it’s cool, he wants it hot.
He
always wants what he has not got.”
33) So everything is good in
its season.
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