The Seasons of the Year
The nature awakens, grass turns green, the trees blossom. The first flowers appear: white snowdrops, yellow primroses and dandelions, colourful crocuses. Birds start singing and some of them return from the south. The first spring birds are larks, swallows and cuckoos, while sparrows you can hear during the whole year.
In the spring we celebrate Easter.
Summer begins on June 21. Children have two months holiday. The sun shines hot, the temperature rises. On hot summer days, there are often storms: the sky clouds over and it gets dark, the wind gets faster. Then you can hear the thunder and see the lightning. It starts to pour and it may even hail. Some people are afraid of a thunderstorm. When the storm is over, sometimes you can see the rainbow in the sky.
Farmers have their harvest time. People pick fruits and vegetables, go mushrooming in the woods or pick strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries.
Lots of people are fond of barbecues in their gardens or at their cottages.
Autumn comes on September 23. The sun rises later and sets earlier. At the beginning of autumn, the weather may be fine and sunny (we call it „Indian Summer“). Autumn is popular because of its colours. The leaves change their colour (they turn red, orange, yellow, finally brown, and then they fall off). Some birds leave for the south. Days become colder and colder. It often rains or drizzles and the mornings are foggy. People often catch flu, they have a cold because of unpleasant weather. It is cloudy and overcast. Some people may even suffer from depression.
Winter begins on December 21. It freezes and snows. The landscape is covered with snow. Ice and slush make the transport difficult. Children love winter because they like playing with the snow: throwing snowballs and building snowmen. Wintersports are very popular: skiing (downhill or crosscountry skiing), snowboarding, ice skating, sledging and bob sledging. Sometimes there is no snow in winter.
We celebrate Christmas (in the Czech Republic also St. Nicholas Day before Christmas), New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
