700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 8
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 8
After the coldness of the winter months the lovely days of April, May, and June call to us and ask us to go out and see the beautiful countryside. During the long winter of the countryside has been resting and waiting for the warmth of summer to make it colourful once more. Some people feel that the countryside is more beautiful in the cold days of winter than it is in the heat of summer. When the leaves have fallen the view is wider, details show up more clearly, and the rivers are full. These are plain facts, of course, but the truth is that most of us like the countryside of the summer more than that of the winter. We like the warmth more than the cold, and we like to see the fields full of the colour that summer brings. And so we go out. We leave behind our TV and our books, and off we go. We are light of heart and happy, and the open country is before us. Is it possible in these days, however, to get right into the heart of the country not only to see it but to hear it and to und…
