English Rewind - Weekender: Mothering Sunday 💐💐💐

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📻 Where does Mother's day come from - and why is it celebrated on different days in different countries? Find out while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Weekender. When is Mother's day celebrated in your country - and what do people do? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇
Useful vocabulary:
✔️ Lent - the six-week period before the Christian period of Easter
✔️ to be in service - to live and work as a servant in the house of a wealthy person
✔️ clergy - religious leaders
✔️ diocese - in the Christian church an area for which the religious post of Bishop has responsibility
✔️ apprentices - people who were learning a trade or profession
✔️ revival - the making something popular that had been popular in the past
✔️ devotion to - strong love for
✔️ to be well connected - to have friends who are important in business or politics
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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of Weekender was first published on the BBC Learning English website in March 2006.
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Пікірлер: 38

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

What positive adjectives would you use to describe your mum? 🥰 Tell us in the comments! 💖 For example: 'loving', 'strong', 'caring'...

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

@@serkan...3Lovely! Can you think of any more? 😄

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

@@serkan...3 'sweet' is a good adjective to use for a mum who is 'kind and pleasant'. ❤

@ceciliamoresco2555 3 ай бұрын

What beautifull tradition,aditional you can give one gift.

@user-by9yd3yc2b 3 ай бұрын

My Mum is very sociable 😘

@beninalanbari3922 3 ай бұрын

I study English in Baghdad university and I enjoy when i listen to BBC everyday

@user-zw9mo9yj5o 3 ай бұрын

مابدك تهاجر؟

@beninalanbari3922 3 ай бұрын

@@user-zw9mo9yj5o ليش اهاجر دادرس بجامعة محترمة ويم اهلي وناسي واصدقائي

@minegarden 2 ай бұрын

I had no idea about where mothering Sunday come from, but now I know that is an old tradition related to servants allowed to visit their mothers during Lent or Easter period, and also Miss Jarvis job in USA

@ceciliamoresco2555 3 ай бұрын

Thank bbc for show us one traditional day,and show too,how eeuu have similar tradition .you put in the end how do you can describe your mother:sweet,smart,heavy in his job,cool,excelent when cooking the food ect,my mother is..my dream ....

@random-yt-user 3 ай бұрын

BBC learning English ❤❤❤❤

@user-qp8hh2bv6r 3 ай бұрын

It's an amazing story. I used to describe my mother as a strong and strict person and probably she was one, but now, many years after I understand that she really loved me.

@user-by9yd3yc2b 3 ай бұрын

❤

@xumoramannopova4974 3 ай бұрын

Hi from Uzbekistan

@M_otwo 2 ай бұрын

I also from Uzbekistan

@ximuoidethuong 3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot

@i_2o01 3 ай бұрын

I am from Iraq and my dream is to come to London❤

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

Hopefully your dream will come true one day! 🥰

@ademargrau9318 3 ай бұрын

In Argentina, Mother's Day is celebrated on October 20, because it is the day of the Motherhood of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.

@niteshgupta07 3 ай бұрын

👍👍

@dhg6sds 3 ай бұрын

I am from China, I wish to go to the US for the sake of earning more money.💰

@MuhammadRamzan-iz1sl 3 ай бұрын

Its the of giving presents to your mothers obviously its the day of special celebrations by your mum's ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂

@JaHIDHASA4 3 ай бұрын

I am from Bangladesh and my dream is to some to South Korea 💖

@hassanjaffer3534 3 ай бұрын

Easy come,quickly go

@user-by9yd3yc2b 3 ай бұрын

What do you mean? Is it the topic?

@user-sv2hi6ku8c 3 ай бұрын

Hello how are you lm from san in the Puerto plata 🇩🇴 dominicana República

@user-mf1ek9qy7 3 ай бұрын

We as Muslims , our profit told " the havin in the foot of mothers" so we love our mother 365 days and give them gifts all the year days :)

@ayam6850 3 ай бұрын

prophet not profit

@user-lf6lu8rc2r 3 ай бұрын

Iam from somalia and my dreams is to go American

@caseyryare4298 3 ай бұрын

Waad adeysa sxb dadaal

@user-lf6lu8rc2r 3 ай бұрын

Thanks dude

@hamsatarek1007 3 ай бұрын

Please I want the link of the app

@user-hu7pd5cf1i 3 ай бұрын

City

@obohbrightsr8750 3 ай бұрын

What about fathering Sunday..... don't forget the male child

@user-gx7sh7oc9w 3 ай бұрын

Is there fathering day😂

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

😊 Yes, we also have Father's Day, which is 16th June!

@user-su6uq5xh7h 3 ай бұрын

@learningenglish9106 3 ай бұрын

Iam from egypt and my dream is playing at manchister united