spring_is_coming.doc
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1. Read the text and choose True (T) or False (F) statements: Hi! My name is Helen and I’d like to tell you about my favourite season. It is spring, of course. Three spring months are very different. March is often cool and windy. April is the shortest of the three months and it is rainy sometimes. May is the warmest of all the three months and the most beautiful. The days are longer now and the nights are shorter. Look through the window. What do you see? The sky is blue. The sun shines brightly and everything is bright and colourful. Snow melts and the birds return from the south countries. The first grass appears. We can see the spring flowers everywhere: tender snowdrops, yellow daffodils, tulips of different colours. The first green leaves appear from the buds. They are tiny at first and they glitter in the sun. All the spring colours are very bright. Spring is also the favourite season for gardeners. They prepare the land for planting the seeds of vegetables and flowers. They water the trees, the bushes and the plants. Spring is also the season when we all celebrate the greatest holiday – Easter. True or False : 1. Spring is Helen’s favourite season. 2. Spring months are February, March and April. 3. It is usually cold in spring. 4. There are no flowers in spring. 5. The gardeners have a lot of work to do in spring. 2. Learn the poem: Spring Spring, spring is coming soon, Grass is green and flowers bloom, Birds returning from the south, Bees are buzzing all about, Leaves are budding everywhere, Spring, spring is finally here! (www.CanTeach.ca) 3. Quiz: 1. What spring months have thirty – one days? 2. What is the shortest spring month? 3. What is the third spring month? 4. What spring month is the warmest? 5. What spring month is the coldest? 6. Can you name spring flowers? 7. What is the first spring flower? 8. What do children build for birds? 5. Choose the best quotation: *"Spring would not be spring without bird songs." - Francis M. Chapman *"When spring comes the grass grows by itself. "- Tao Te Ching *"Spring is when life's alive in everything." - Christina Ros- setti *"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "- Gustav Mahler *"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in 4. Read and describe spring months: March March is an in between month, When wintry winds are high. But milder days remind us all, Spring's coming by and by. April April is a rainbow month, Of sudden springtime showers. Bright with golden daffodils and lots of pretty flowers. May May's a month of happy sounds, The hum of buzzing bees, The chirp of little baby birds And the song of a gentle
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1. Read the text and choose True (T) or False (F) statements:
Hi! My name is Helen and Id like to tell you about my favourite season. It is spring, of course. Three spring months are very different. March is often cool and windy. April is the shortest of the three months and it is rainy sometimes. May is the warmest of all the three months and the most beautiful. The days are longer now and the nights are shorter.
Look through the window. What do you see? The sky is blue. The sun shines brightly and everything is bright and colourful. Snow melts and the birds return from the south countries. The first grass appears. We can see the spring flowers everywhere: tender snowdrops, yellow daffodils, tulips of different colours. The first green leaves appear from the buds. They are tiny at first and they glitter in the sun. All the spring colours are very bright.
Spring is also the favourite season for gardeners. They prepare the land for planting the seeds of vegetables and flowers. They water the trees, the bushes and the plants.
Spring is also the season when we all celebrate the
greatest holiday Easter.
True or False: 1. Spring is Helens favourite season.
2. Spring months are February, March and April.
3. It is usually cold in spring.
4. There are no flowers in spring.
5. The gardeners have a lot of work to do in spring.
2. Learn the poem:
Spring
Spring, spring is
coming soon,Grass is green and
flowers bloom,Birds returning from
the south,Bees are buzzing
all about,Leaves are budding
everywhere,Spring, spring is
finally here!
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3. Quiz:
1. What spring months have thirty one days?
2. What is the shortest spring month?
3. What is the third spring month?
4. What spring month is the warmest?
5. What spring month is the coldest?
6. Can you name spring flowers?
7. What is the first spring flower?
8. What do children build for birds?
5. Choose the best quotation:
*"Spring would not be spring without bird songs." - Francis M. Chapman
*"When spring comes the grass grows by itself. "- Tao Te
Ching
*"Spring is when life's alive in everything." - Christina Ros-
setti
*"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "- Gustav Mahler
*"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May." - Edwin Way
Teale
*"Spring An experience in immortality. " - Henry David
Thoreau
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4. Read and describe spring months:
March
March is an in between month,When wintry winds are high.But milder days remind us all,Spring's coming by and by.
April
April is a rainbow month,Of sudden springtime showers.Bright with golden daffodilsand lots of pretty flowers.
May
May's a month of happy sounds,The hum of buzzing bees,The chirp of little baby birdsAnd the song of a gentle breeze.
( HYPERLINK "http://www.canteach.ca" www.CanTeach.ca)
