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7) For a rainy day (to save, to put by, to lay up).
8) Every cloud has a silver lining.
Exercise 4. Study the following texts and say what in your opinion the advan-
tages and disadvantages of each season are. (The phrases given below will help
you to express an opinion of your own or ask for somebody else’s opinion).
Asking for an opinion Expressing your own opinion
Well? What do you think? I think that ...
Do / Don’t you agree? In my opinion ...
What’s your view (then)? In my view ...
How do you see it (then)? I feel that ...
Let’s have your opinion. What’s your opinion of ... ?
A - In my opinion the most pleasant season is (the) spring. In May the weather is
finest and all nature is loveliest. The trees put forth little buds and new leaves; the
meadows grow green again; the flowers begin to bloom. The nightingale, swallow,
cuckoo and other birds come back from Italy or Africa and build their nests, all the
while singing their merry songs. Meanwhile the new crop is shooting up, and if
there are no sharp frosts during the night, nature looks full of promise, and the
corn-fields are made bright by blue cornflowers and red poppies.
Spring flowers! The lilacs unfold their pale hearts. There shines the wild
daffodil - soft, slim, yellow; there is the starry narcissus, the hiacinth almost lost
in the herbs; among them stand tulips - the red bubbles of dark wine; the yellow,
more cup-like; the large party-coloured gold and red, noble and sombre.
B - I, for one, like summer, in fact, I prefer it to any other season. By the end of
June, when the days become considerably warmer, summer has come. If the heat
gets too oppressive, we can go and bathe in running water. And many people enjoy
a game of tennis in summer. In the summer the hot sun ripens the corn and fruit,
and the farmer gets ready for the harvest. There are plenty of strawberries, cherries,
currants, gooseberries, raspberries, apricots, peaches, plums and blackberries,
which are ripe and afford a treat for the old and the young. And what pleasure can
compare with that of watching the glorious sunrise and sunset? Clouds? Rain?
Well, well, it isn’t always cloudy, and there is no such thing as perpetual rain.
C - Strange as it might seem, I like (the) autumn. There are some drawbacks, I
admit, - the shorter days and longer nights, for instance. The weather also leaves
much to be desired. But is there anything more beautiful than an Indian summer
- when we have one! We miss the songs of the birds, you say. Well, I can and do
enjoy the sparrow, bluebird, crossbill and the few others that remain with us. Oh,
I know what you want to say. The November fogs, and mist, and sleet are not
pleasant things. But what should we do without apples, pears, walnuts, grapes,
which get ripe in September and October and may be picked. I, for one, could
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