🌱 Springtime Vocabulary 🌼
This colourful arch appears in the sky after spring rain. 🌈
In France, people give this flower as a symbol of luck and spring on 1st May. 🌸
Lily of the valley
To be a Spring Chicken means...?
To be young, or feeling young!
This composer wrote The Four Seasons, including a famous piece for spring. 🎻
Vivaldi
This famous tennis tournament is held in Paris during late spring. 🎾🇫🇷
French Open or Roland Garros tournament
Sudden, brief rainfall in spring is called this. ☔
A shower
This Christian holiday is celebrated in spring and often involves painting eggs. 🥚🐣
Easter
To turn over a new leaf means...?
To start something new, or make a new beginning
In this Disney film, a rabbit named Thumper appears during a springtime scene. 🐰🌿
Bambi
People often do this outdoor activity in parks during spring, using a blanket and food. 🧺🍓
Picnic
This is the term for the first day of spring, when day and night are equal in length. 🌍☀️
Spring/Vernal Equinox
This French public holiday on 8th May commemorates the end of World War II in Europe. 🕊️
Victory in Europe Day / VE Day
If you have a spring in your step you are feeling:
a) Drunk
b) Energetic
c) Silly
b) Energetic
This prestigious French film festival, held in spring, awards the Palme d’Or. 🎥🏆
Cannes Film Festival
This annual cycling race in France is known as ‘The Hell of the North’ and takes place in spring. 🚴♂️💨
Paris-Roubaix
This adjective describes the weather when it’s neither too hot nor too cold, typical of spring. 🌤️
Mild
In Japan, people gather under these trees to celebrate their blooming in spring. 🌸🌳
Cherry Trees/Cherry Blossom
If you ‘come out of your shell’, you are becoming this. 🐢💬
More sociable/confident/outgoing
This British singer’s 2020 album Future Nostalgia includes the spring-themed track Levitating. 🎶✨
Dua Lipa
This traditional British springtime sport involves hitting a small ball through hoops on a lawn. 🏞️🎯
Croquet
This word describes the process of flowers opening up in spring.
Blooming or Blossoming
v to bloom or to blossom
During this Indian festival, people throw coloured powder at each other to celebrate spring. 🎨
Holi
This idiom describes someone who is very happy, like the season of spring. 🌞
To be full of the joys of Spring!
This 2018 Netflix series follows students navigating life and love during spring in Spain. 🌍📺
Elite
This outdoor adventure activity, popular in spring, involves navigating trails using a map and compass. 🗺️🌲
Orienteering