Hello 大家周末好！秋末将即，天气慢慢也变冷了，2024 年也迎来了最后的两个月。在这个十一月初的周末就让我们就来讲一下四季来迎接冬天吧。

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 26 of Weekend English Club. The weather is getting colder, the days are getting shorter and the skies are more gray, so that means autumn has arrived. The seasons are changing again and today I will talk a little bit about the different seasons of the year.

Everyone has their own favorite season, and mine is spring. Spring is the season when everything begins again, as plants start growing again and animals become more active after the cold winter months. Although the Western new year starts on the first of January, in Iran the new year starts with the beginning of spring, which also makes sense to me. For farmers this is also the start of their year, because they can start growing food again. For farmers the seasons are very important because they really affect their whole life and everything they do to grow our food. I like spring because it is very comfortable where I live, and not too hot to have fun outside.

Summer is next and depending on where you live, it can be very hot. If you live in a tropical place it can feel like summer almost the whole year and it is hard to do anything without air conditioning. In the north of Europe summer is usually not too bad, but in the south it often gets so hot you really cannot do anything outside and you just spend the day sleeping until it cools down a bit. This is why in the north people usually end their day quite early, but in the south it is warm enough to do a lot of things late at night.

Autumn is a season which can be very cozy and beautiful because of the changing colors of the trees and the falling leaves, so you can sit inside with a book and a blanket and watch the outside world change. Autumn is also known as the harvest season, because it is the time when farmers need to harvest everything they have grown before winter arrives. Then as the months pass, winter begins.

Winter can be very intense in cold regions of the world, but also very beautiful when it starts snowing outside. It is the time of Christmas, thick sweaters and cozy nights at home. A lot of animals will spend the winter sleeping as they wait for spring, and then it all starts over again. I like to go ice skating in the winter and drink hot chocolate, but I do always look forward to the beginning of spring.

• Iran：伊朗
• Make sense：合理的；容易理解的
• Comfortable：舒服的
• Depend on：依赖于；取决于
• Tropical：热带的，热带地区的
• Air conditioning：空调系统
• Cool down：冷却；平静下来
• Blanket：毯子，毛毯
• Harvest：收获
• Intense：强烈的；激烈的
• Sweaters：毛衣（复数）
• Ice skating：冰上滑冰
• Look forward to：期待；期望

主播：Daniel

校对：nan_nan