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O Mothers Day is a moving date, that is, the day to be celebrated depends on the year, but in Brazil it is always on the second sunday of may. In several countries it is celebrated on other dates, ranging from March to December.
Mother's Day is a day to celebrate and thank all mothers for the dedication, love and affection they give their children on a daily basis. It is common on Mother's Day for children to surprise their mothers, giving gifts or organizing activities that show all the admiration they feel for her.
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The celebration of Mother's Day originated in the United States. A young American woman, Ana Jarvis, had lost her mother and was deeply sad. Some of her friends decided to pay tribute to Ana's mother. And on the second Sunday in May in 1907, they celebrated the first Mother's Day. The following year, the celebration was already a public ceremony!
Such a beautiful date could not fail to attract the attention of the rest of the world! Today, virtually every country celebrates Mother's Day. The dates can vary from country to country, but the important thing is that everyone celebrates peace, love, affection, protection, beauty and everything else that mothers represent!
In Brazil, the date was commemorated for the first time in 1918, in Porto Alegre, by the Associação Cristã de Moços.
Mother's day around the world:
1) Answer:
2) Draw a beautiful picture of your mother.
3) Cut out pictures of mothers with their children from magazines and paste them in your notebook.
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We always celebrate Mother's Day, but we don't usually ask ourselves how it all started. Read the text below and find out a little more about this date:
The history of Mother's Day is centuries old and takes us back to ancient Greece, which held parties in honor of Rhea, the mother of all gods – which were not few at the time.
The first Christians celebrated Mother's Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent, in honor of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Interestingly, a religious order later extended the date to include all mothers and called it Mother's Sunday.
English settlers settled in America and did not carry on with this Sunday's tradition, perhaps for lack of time.
In 1872, Julia Ward Howe organized a day in honor of mothers who dedicated to peace. It was a milestone in Mother's Day history.
In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948), a Philadelphia teacher, started a movement that would take this day on a national scale, in honor of her mother Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She enlisted the help of hundreds of lawmakers and business owners to create a special day for mothers.
The first official celebration of this day took place in a church and was in honor of Anna's mother, who she placed her mother's favorite flowers, white carnations, which represented purity, patience and sweetness. Anna's hard work was finally rewarded in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson decided that the second Sunday in May would be a national date in honor of mothers.
Slowly and gradually, Mother's Day became very popular and the custom of giving gifts or souvenirs on this date increased. The commercialization of the date infuriated Anna, who believed that this should be a date with feeling and not a day dedicated to gluttony and profit.
Despite Jarvis' concerns, Mother's Day has become very popular in the United States.
Currently, the second Sunday in May is considered the most popular day of the year. Anna may no longer be with us, but Mother's Day is alive and has spread to many countries around the world, including Brazil.
Not all countries celebrate the date on the second Sunday in May, but in addition to Brazil and the United States, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium also pay tribute on the second Sunday of May.
1 – Honoring mothers is an old custom, although a date was made official recently. Since when do people usually honor their mother and why did they do it at this time?
2 – Answer V for true and F for false, according to the information contained in the text:
3 – President Wilson made Mother's Day official in the year 1914. How many years has this date been celebrated then?
4 – Do you think this is really an important date? Because?
5 – If you celebrate Mother's Day, explain how you usually do this celebration in your family:
Mother scared of gecko:
Once upon a time there was a mother who was afraid of lizards. Otherwise, she was brave: she was alone, she sang in the dark, she drank hot soup.
She was really brave: she faced cockroaches, argued with her boss, got shots all over the place.
She liked both a feather animal and a fur animal. Her child could have a dog, cat, rabbit, parakeet, bullfinch, canary, guinea pig. Even if it was all at the same time, she didn't mind, she even cheered her up, but even invented it.
Fish and tortoises, she also left them as no one else. And she had a round aquarium with red fish and a red balcony with a round tortoise. If the children discovered a winged monkey, she was able to leave it at home.
If a cow found a place, she wouldn't be the one to get in the way.
But frog? Worm? Frog? Chameleon? She didn't even want to know. She disguised and went into hiding. The children explained:
__ Mom, what's wrong? Such a nice animal, it doesn't do anything, look!
She looked. But she didn't like it.
And those little lizards on the sunset rocks?
__ A little animal for nothing, mother was no longer silly!
But then she was silly. So silly that, on the way to the beach, through the woods, she was stomping and talking loudly, making noise just to scare the little lizards - who ran away, scared to death of a woman so big and noisy.
But the biggest fear was what the mother had of the gecko.
Ana Maria Machado
1) What is the title of the text? ______________
And the author? ________________
2) What was the mother's biggest fear? R: _________ And is your mother afraid?
3) Which animals appear in the text? R: _____
4) Are you afraid of something? From what? R: ______
5) Write what your mother is like:
6) The text speaks…
(A) of the lizard (B) of the mother's fear (C) of the animals
7) “The mother was only afraid of lizards”.
The above statement is:
( ) True False.
8) Complete the sentences with the words below:
mothers – present – kisses – card – beautiful
9) Mark affirmative sentences with an X.
a) Ana Paula likes to read. ( ) b) Sandra did not do the task. ( )
c) Carla did her homework. ( ) d) Julia didn't make a mess today. ( )
e) Isabela likes to jump rope. ( ) f) I don't like television. ( )
10) Write C for consonant cluster and V for vowel cluster:
( ) son-in-law ( ) knight ( ) grateful
( ) ball ( ) prince ( ) judge
( ) thief ( ) bedpan ( ) comb
( ) bow ( ) plane ( ) box
11) Separate the syllables from the words and rank them according to the number of syllables:
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