MOTHERING DAY

Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated around Europe. It is also called Mother’s Day in UK and usually that day is celebrated on Sunday.
That day is always celebrated the fourth Sunday of Lent in UK. (In Spain as we know it is celebrated the first Sunday of May). So every year Mothering Sunday is celebrated in different dates, sometimes also it is celebrated in different months.
Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in the UK since at least the 16th century. There is a story behind Mothering Sunday.
That day was also known as ‘Refreshment Sunday’, ‘Mid-Lent Sunday’ and ‘Pudding Pie Sunday’. In that day which is in Lent the fasting rules were relaxed in honour of the ‘Feeding of the Five Thousand’, a story in the Christian Bible.
No one knows absolutely certain how the name of the Mothering Sunday began. However on theory is that the celebration could have been adopted from a Roman Spring festival, Mother Goddes.
Mothering Sunday became a celebration of motherhood although in countries other than UK and Ireland that other holiday has other origins.
In that day children give their mothers a gift and a lovely card. Is mother’s day so their children pay respect to their respective mothers.
Many churches give the children a little bunch of spring flowers to give to their mothers as a thank you for all they love, care and in fact for all the things they do for them.








Alba Jiménez Alcalde & Ana Díaz Escriche

DISCUSSION ESSAY ON LANGUAGE TEACHING

Nowadays the language teaching is necessary in all schools, because students need to learn the language to integrate into society.
Of course, these children must learn other kind of language, like English, which is the most important language in the world. It has millions of speakers around the world and in all schools there is a subject of English.
It’s necessary teaching different languages, it’s important that the students improve progressively their language skills because nowadays knowing different languages is a career. Especially in Ibiza that tourism is very high and we live by it.
For this, is very important schools teach languages and it becomes for all schools in Spain and in the world.
Many adult people don’t know anything about languages and for them it’s very difficult to find a good job, because, actually, in many jobs require language skill to work there.
Therefore, our young people have to learn a lot of different languages to have a good future. If they learn these skills of the languages correctly they will have a good future in their life.
There are many opponents of this idea too. These people (some parents especially) think their children don’t need learn languages because they think Spanish is enough for them. For this, they think that if their children learn Spanish culture they will be a good future.
But, in my opinion, these parents are totally mistaken because languages are the basis of our students’ future and without them nobody will go far.
So finally, our schools must teach languages to improve our education, which needs being better.



Alba Jiménez Alcalde