The four seasons in Britain are very different. Read about what Daniel and Fiona think about winter, spring, summer and autumn.
Daniel
Autumn is very beautiful time of the year. The leaves on the trees go brown, red and yellow and they go down. I love to watch it! We play in the parks a lot but we wear warm clothes, because the days get cold. School starts again in autumn, at the beginning of September. I don’t like school!
Summer is the time for me! School finishes in July and we can play in the parks all the time. Sometimes it is very hot. People are happier and they talk with their friends and go for a walk more. The days are very long. In July, for example, it gets dark only about 10 o’clock. It’s very difficult to go to sleep at night! Fiona
It’s very cold in winter! Sometimes, we have a lot of snow and we can make snowmen. I don’t like winter because we can’t go for a walk very much. We wear thick clothes and in our house it sometimes gets cold. When we come home from school at 4 o’clock, it is already dark. I don’t like it at all! But there is one good thing about winter - Christmas!
After the long winter, spring is great! There are new leaves on the trees and the birds start to sing.
We can go for long walks again and play in the park. The days are longer and it doesn’t get dark until about six o’clock. It’s much warmer but it rains a lot and the days are very windy.
1. A. Daniel likes autumn because the trees are beautiful.
B. Daniel likes autumn because school starts in September.
C. Daniel doesn’t play in the park in autumn because the days are cold.
D. Daniel goes to school with great pleasure.
2. A. School in Britain finishes in May.
B. Daniel doesn’t like to meet his friends in the park in summer.
C. People in Great Britain sometimes have hot summers.
D. In July it is dark at nine.
3. A. Daniel always goes to sleep at eight in summer because the days are shorter than in winter. B. It is always very hot in Britain in summer.
C. Daniel doesn’t like autumn at all!
D. In summer Daniel is happier than in autumn because he doesn’t go to school.
4. A. Fiona makes snowmen every day in winter.
B. Fiona likes to go for a walk with her friends.
C. Fiona doesn’t like winter because it is cold in winter.
D. It never gets cold in Fiona’s house.
5. A. Winters are short in Britain.
B. Fiona comes home in the afternoon.
C. Fiona doesn’t like winter at all!
D. It never snows in Great Britain.
6. A. Fiona likes spring very much. B. Fiona likes dark winter days.
C. It gets dark at 5 in the afternoon in spring.
D. In Great Britain it doesn’t rain much in spring.
V/ Cloze test
Coffee grows on trees (1) …….. tropical countries. The trees are not very tall. They are less (2) ………. four metres high. They have shiny leaves (3) …….. white flowers. Fruit starts to grow when the trees are five years old. Each fruit (4) ……… two seeds in it. We call the seeds coffee beans. Coffee came from Ethiopia in East Africa. People saw animals eating the leaves and fruit of coffee plants. The (5) ……….. stayed awake all night. Then people started eating the fruit, too. People took coffee (6) …….. Ethiopia to the Middle East and then to Europe. They started making a drink from coffee about 700 years (7) ……. . They liked to go to coffee houses to drink (8) ……….and talk.
1. A. on B. among C. within D. in
2. A. then B. over C. than D. above
3. A. with B. having C. without D. have
4. A. has B. have C. there is D. there are
5. A. people B. animals C. beings D. they
6. A. in B. toward C. forward D. from
7. A. then B. later C. ago D. once
8. A. beer B. water C. wines D. coffee
1-d
2-c
3-a
4-a
5-b
6-d
7-c
8-d