articles - When Should I use 'the' with months, seasons?

Should I say:

There are four seasons of (the) year?

Today we will talk about names of (the) months.

Answer

Those two sentences would be more likely to occur as

There are four seasons in the year.

and

Today we're going to talk about the names of the months.

Year and month are preceded by the because both are definite. In other contexts they might not be.