What season is it?

What season is it?
What winter months do you know?
December
January
February

What season is it?
What spring months do you know?
March
April
May

What season is it?
What summer months do you know?
June
July
August

What season is it?
What autumn months do you know?
September
October
November

What is your favourite season?
What is your favourite month?

What are the people doing in each picture?
picking flowers?
playing in the snow?
going swimming?
raking leaves?
Present Continuous

Match the sentences to the pictures.

Present Continuous
Read the proverb and listen to the music. What images come to mind?
A wind from the south has rain in its mouth.
The wind is blowing.
The sea is rough.
It’s starting to rain.
The family are sitting near the fireplace.
some ideas
additional information

Choose a picture and make true/false statements about it. Your partner corrects the false ones.
In this picture there are two children.
False. There are three children.
They are swimming.
True.
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2
3
Present Continuous

to be fed up with
almost every day
to hate
to freeze
anyway
to rain heavily
сильный дождь
быть сытым ч-л
почти каждый день
ненавидеть
мерзнуть
в любом случае
How many people are online?
Where are they?

Read the text and answer the questions.
What is the weather like in Scotland now?
What is Gus doing in Scotland?
Where is it snowing?
What season is it in Australia now?

Give the synonyms to the following words:
to be fed up with
almost every day
to hate
to freeze
anyway
to rain heavily
сильный дождь
быть сытым ч-л
почти каждый день
ненавидеть
мерзнуть
в любом случае

Find phrases/idioms which mean:
I am tired of
It doesn’t suit me.
How are you doing?

it’s hot, very hot
it’s freezing, snowing
in winter, it rains all the time, it’s grey almost every day
What’s the weather like in Scotland, Switzerland, Australia? Make notes, then tell the class.
Scotland
Switzerland
Australia
how to make notes

It’s hot.
It’s snowing.
It’s raining.
It’s windy.
It’s freezing/cold.

It’s cold.
It’s awful!
It’s a lovely/beautiful day!
It’s very hot.
It’s freezing!
It’s terrible!
It’s warm!
It’s fabulous!

Krasnodar
Novosibirsk
Krasnoyarsk
Yekaterinburg
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Anadyr
Dixon
Magadan
Choose a city and act out a short telephone conversation.