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методическая разработка по английскому языку (6 класс) на тему

FOUR SEASONS

The year is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In spring nature awakens from her winter sleep. The trees are filled with new life, and the weather goes gradually milder. The fields and the meadows are covered with green fresh grass. The woods and forests are filled with the songs of the birds. The sky is blue and cloudless. At night millions of stars shine in the darkness.

        When summer comes, the weather gets warmer still and sometimes it is very hot. It is the farmer’s busy season – he works in fields from morning till night. The grass must be cut. Sometimes the skies are overcast with heavy clouds. There are storms with thunder, lightning and hail.

        Autumn brings with it the harvest-time when crops are gathered and the fruit is picked in orchards. The days get shorter and the nights longer. The woods turn yellow and brown, the leaves begin to fall from the trees and the ground is covered with them. The skies are grey, and very often it rains.

        When winter comes we are obliged to spend more time indoors because outdoors it is cold. We may get fog, sleet and frost. Ponds, lakes, rivers and streams are frozen, and the roads are sometimes covered with ice or deep snow. The trees are bare.

to awaken – пробуждаться                warm  (adjective) – to warm (verb) – нагревать

mild – теплый (о погоде) мягкий (о климате)                                  meadows – луга, fields – поля

woods and forests – рощи и леса

the sky, the moon, the sun – существительные, обозначающие единственные в своем роде предметы и явления, употребляются с определенным артиклем.

the weather gets milder                                        теплее

to rain – идти (о дожде)

it rains – идет дождь                        it drizzles - моросит

it snows – идет снег                         it thunders – гремит гром

it blows – дует ветер                         it lightens – сверкает молния

overcast – пасмурный покрытый тучами

a cloud – облако, cloudy – облачный, cloudless – безоблачный

a storm – буря, a thunderstorm – гроза, a snowstorm – вьюга, метель

harvest –  жатва; уборка хлеба; сбор (яблок, мёда и т.п.)

to harvest – убирать урожай                         crop – урожай, хлеб на корню

to pick – рвать, собирать, e.g.: to pick flowers, to pick fruits

indoors – дома                 out-of-doors (outdoors) – на воздухе, на улице.

fog – туман                 sleet – дождь со снегом, мокрый снег. it is sleeting – идет дождь со снегом.

ponds – пруды            streams – ручьи                    

Word Study

1.        Write out of the text all the words connected with the topic “Seasons”.Transcribe them and learn.

2.  Give adjectives corresponding to the following nouns. Mind the spelling rules:

 e.g: cloud-cloudy 

Sun, fog, star, wind, snow, rain, chill, mud, dirt, ice, dust, storm, gloom, mist, noise, health, smoke

3.        Give nouns corresponding to the following verbs:

e.g: to rain-rain.

To hail, to sleet, to snow, to thunder, to lighten, to freeze, to harvest, to drizzle.

4. _        Give the 3 forms of the following verbs:

to awaken, to warm, to shine, to get, to bring, to fall, to come, to spend, to freeze, to feel.