Names of months in English: transcription, translation, exercises

Each of us is looking forward to some event: a birthday, a wedding, the onset of summer vacations. Have you ever counted months or weeks before an important day? About how the names of months in English, the seasons and the days of the week will sound, will be told in the material of the article.

Seasons

Dates, seasons and months are usually studied in the very first lessons of English. This is necessary, because dates and figures often appear in oral speech and on pages of documents.

Before you learn the names of months in English, you need to figure out the seasons. Their names are not consonant with the Russian version:

1. Spring - sounds like [sprint]. In translation means "spring".
2. Summer. Transcription [sage] - summer.
3. But autumn has several options for sound, depending on what country you are in. For Britain, it sounds like autumn. In American, autumn is written and sounds like Fall [foul]. The vowel in this case is pronounced lingeringly.
4. Winter. The transcription looks like this: [uinte]. The first two vowels are pronounced quickly, so that the sound was similar to Russian [c], but softer.

Months in English

Now that the seasons are sorted out, you can move on to the months. Below are the names of the months in English with the pronunciation in Russian:

1. Junuary [дженьё: ри] - January.
2. February [februari] - February.
3. March [ma: h] - March.
4. April [April] - April.
5. May [May] is May.
6. June [jung] - June.
7. July [julai] - July.
8. August [August] - August.
9. September [Septembe] - September.
10. October [Octobey] - October.
11. November [novembe] - November.
12. December [desembes] - December.

Note the names of the months in English with transcription: the colon in it means by the rules the length of the spoken sound. The letter r at the end is not read.

Rules relating to months and seasons in English

The use in the speech and letter of the names of the months in English passes according to certain rules that are easy to remember:

1. Month names in English are always written with a capital letter.
2. The number of the month is separated by a comma from a year. For example, so: It happend in August, 1982. It happened in August 1982.
3. If you need to draw up a date in writing, use the abbreviation: Dec 17, Nov 22. Note, first the month name comes with a capital letter, followed by the number.

The use of articles and prepositions

Artikli and prepositions often cause difficulties in the process of learning English. What pretexts are used with the names of the months, we will analyze further.

With the word month, the following prepositions are used:

1. By in the meaning of "every month".
2. For a , when you need to say that the action takes place throughout the month.
3. In a, if you want to say that some action will happen in a month.
4. If there is a temporary circumstance in the sentence, for example, when it is necessary to say that something happened in May, the preposition in : My son was born in May. - My son was born in May . When you want to name a specific date, the preposition is changed to on: My son was born on 13 of May. - My son was born on May 13 .

When the article and prepositions are not used

Prepositions are not used if there are such words as:

• This is these.
• Every - everyone.
• All is all.
• Any - any.
• Next - Next
• Each - which.

And also when using the seasons together with these particles: I'l study English next week. "I'll be learning English next week."

How to remember the seasons and the days of the week for the child?

How to help a child remember the names of months of the year in English? The best way to remember, of course, is in the form of a game. You will be helped by beautiful pictures with the names of months, similar to those given here, coloring and writing with your favorite characters, songs and poems, as well as simple but effective exercises. Each child has a favorite toy. Invite your child to tell the soft friend the words he has learned, or retell an excerpt of the text with new words.

Examples of exercises in English

With the help of the proposed exercises, you can not only learn the names of months in English with transcription, but also fix any lexical material without the usual memorization. Their significant plus is that not only is sound memorized, but also the spelling of learned words.

Exercise 1

Correlate the names of the months in English with transcription and translation:

Exercise 2

Translate the sentence into Russian, find the correct statements:

It's raining in Junuary.

The weather is fine on May.

September is the first month of the year.

The weather is still cold in April.

Exercise 3

It can be used for any words that you are going to fix. Its essence is that letters are rearranged in places by letter, and you need to return them to the correct sequence. For greater efficiency, it is recommended to perform it in pairs or in a small group.

Poems for memorizing the months in English

Short memory verses help you quickly and easily learn the names of months in English with a translation:

• January comes to us, hello, Christmas tree, New Year.
• Blizzards rush through the earth - February in the yard.
• Do you hear icicles crying? Comes to us soon March.
• April begins, the streams run along the roads.
• Outside the window today, May is a vacation at the door.
• The sea of light and heat - June - summer time.
• On the July calendar - run, jump, tan.
• August in the yard - harvest on the table.
• The trees will wear a bright outfit, September at the school will bring the guys together.
• Leaves fall from the trees to the ground, October - hello, leaf fall.
• Birds flew to the place where it's warm, then, November knocks on the window.
• On houses and trams, December will leave patterns.

Interesting fact

If you are going to visit, for example, London, then for you will be useful information: winter in England lasts from November to February. Spring comes in March and lasts only until April. May is considered a summer month. And autumn lasts from September to October. In the United States everything is just as customary as our traditional calendar.

Learn and memorize the names of months in English easily and interestingly. This will be another step towards free conversation with native speakers. Themed video will help you learn the language faster.