Do the seasons change how you feel and what you do — say, your energy in summer compared with winter?

A natural way to answer

Yes, the seasons affect me quite a bit. In the warmer months I'm more active and sociable. When it gets cold and dark, I tend to slow down and stay home more, which is fine for a while.

Key phrases to use

• curl up — to sit or lie comfortably with your body bent in, often somewhere cosy“I love to curl up with a book on a rainy day.”
• get me down — to make me feel sad or low“The grey weather really gets me down.”
• slow down — to become less active or do things at a gentler pace“I slow down a lot in the colder months.”
• go into hibernation mode — to stay home and do very little, like an animal sleeping through winter“Come November, I go into full hibernation mode.”