hello everyone i'm teacher sarah today we are going to learn english about
mother's day let's get started let's look at some mother's day vocabulary
today let's look at the five words gratitude appreciate cherish generous and
tenacious the first word is gratitude gratitude is a noun which means the quality of being
thankful most often we hear it used in the word grateful which is the adjective form of
gratitude so instead of saying thank you i might say i'm grateful for you or i'm grateful to you
so let's take a look at how we might use the words gratitude or grateful when talking about our
mother's or mother's day i have so much gratitude for my mother this means i have so much of a
feeling of being of thankfulness for my mother i am grateful to her i have gratitude for her
i am so grateful for her love and care notice that when we use the word grateful we often say
i'm grateful for something i'm grateful for her love and care i'm grateful for
uh the way that she raised me right so
here are first words gratitude and grateful just a different way to express thankfulness
next is the word appreciate appreciate means to recognize the full worth of something or someone
or to value or respect something or someone so today we'll look at appreciate of course in the
context of a person who do you appreciate in your life who do you value and respect
so in the context of mother's day i might say i appreciate my mother so much
or i appreciate all that she has given me our third word today is cherish
cherish means to protect and care for someone lovingly and often we use cherish to mean that we
adore or love something very dearly so of course this is a word that we might use with our mothers
so i might say something like i cherish my mother or i cherish the time that we spend together
this means i love and adore and uh really really hold close to my heart
my mother and the time that we spend together so cherish
the next two words are adjectives which means we might use them to describe someone the first word
is generous this is an adjective which means you are very giving it means you might give something
more of something than is necessary or expected so this could be you give a lot of your time
you give a lot of your love or you even give a lot of material things generous means very giving so
on mother's day i might say something like i am grateful that my mother is so generous or
she is generous with her love and time this means she gives a lot of her love and a lot of her time
the last word we'll look at today is tenacious tenacious is a wonderful adjective that means
to have persistent determination this means to work hard and never give up or stop trying
many parents out there are very tenacious when it comes to raising their children
and trying to make sure that they have a good life and become good people so on mother's day i might
say something like even when life was difficult her mother was always tenacious she never gave up
this means that she never stopped trying and she always worked hard
let's review our words for today so the first three words gratitude appreciate and cherish
are all words we might use to show our thankfulness and how much we care
uh you might tell your mother that you are grateful for her that you appreciate what she
has done for you and that you cherish your relationship with her if you're explaining
to her why you love her so much you might say it's because she is so generous and tenacious
these are all great words to use and great things to express to your mother on mother's day