Mummy essay in English



Lesson 20 


My Mother Essay in English 

My mother is a homemaker. Although she doesn't wear the pants in the family, she takes care of everything at home. She is a symbol of love and affection for us. She is our guide, teacher and instructor. 

She sacrifices her comfort, wishes and expectations for our happiness. 

My mother is a role model for us. We look up to her, get inspired and learn from her.

The best qualities of my mother are that she never uses hurtful words towards us and forgives us when we make mistakes, she deals with problems with serenity and peace, and that, because she is an experienced, well-mannered, kind-hearted, courteous, enlightened mother, her words always act as a lighthouse for us in achieving our goals of life. 

My mother is always ready to go through fire and water to make our dreams come true. She really has the potentials that we can expect from a good and role model mother. 

The statement is very true that a mother is the first teacher, guide and philosopher of her child, because she is the one who teaches how to communicate; makes her child walk on its feet; puts her thoughts into her child's mind.

To conclude, my mother is really a gift granted to us in our life. Life is out of question in her absence, and Impossible is to live without her care. Blessed are those whose parents are still breathing.


Words to Learn (Learn more words here)

1. Homemaker→A woman who manages the household of her family

Synonym→ Housewife

2. Although→In spite of the fact.... (Conjunction)

3. Symbol→Sign or mark

4. Affection→Feeling of fondness 

Synonym→Liking 

Antonym→Hate 

5. Guide→A person who shows someone or guides to some place or gives advice (Here, the second meaning is referred to.) 

Synonym→Adviser or mentor

6. Instructor→A person who instructs or teaches 

Synonym→Teacher 

Antonym→Pupil 

7. To sacrifice→To slaughter some animal or give up something special for the sake of something else (Here, the second meaning is referred to.) 

8. Comfort→ Physical ease 

Synonym→ Relief

Antonym→ Grief, pain or exertion

9. Expectation→ A belief that something is going to happen 

Synonym→ Expectancy

Antonym→Fact or reality

10. Happiness→ Pleasure

Synonym→ Cheerfulness

Antonym→ Sadness, grief or unhappiness

11. Hurtful→ Something that hurts 

Synonym→Painful 

Antonym→Pleasant 

12. To forgive→To stop being angry with someone 

Synonym→ To pardon

Antonym→ To convict 

13. Serenity→Calmness 

Synonym→ Tranquility

Antonym→Agitation 

14. Experienced→ Someone who has the skill of doing something properly 

Synonym→ Skillful 

Antonym→ Inexperienced

15. Well-mannered→ Someone who has good manners

Synonym→ Good-natured

Antonym→ Bad-mannered 

16. Kind-hearted→ Someone who is of kind nature

Synonym→ Soft-hearted 

Antonym→ Hard-hearted 

17. Courteous→ Someone who is respectful to others

18. Enlightened→ A Learned or educated person

Synonym→ Knowledgeable 

Antonym→ Illiterate

19. To achieve→To get some goal 

Synonym→To attain

Antonym→Ignore 

20. Goal→ Purpose

21. Potential→ Ability to do something

Synonym→Ability 

Antonym→Inability 

22. Statement→A sentence that conveys a message or an idea 

23. Philosopher→A person who loves wisdom, a thinker 

24. To conclude→To end something 

Synonym→ To finish

Antonym→To start 

25. To grant →To provide someone with what they have requested for 

Synonym→To give or allow

Antonym→To refuse or disallow

26. Absence→ Non-existence

Antonym→Presence

27. Impossible→ Something that is not possible

28. Care→ Love, liking, affinity

29. Blessed→ Lucky 

Synonym→ Fortunate

Antonym→Unlucky

30. To breathe→To take air in and out 

Synonym→ Respire 


Idioms and Phrases to Learn

1. To wear the pants in the family→To have the authority of making decisions in the family

2. To take care of→To look after someone 

3. To be a symbol of→To  be something that represents something else 

4. To be a role model for someone→To be an example for someone 

5. To look up to someone→To give respect to someone

6. To get inspired→To be filled with confidence and desire to do something

7. To deal with problems with serenity and peace→To handle or cope with problems while maintaining peace, and not getting worried about it 

8. To act as a lighthouse for→To guide someone as a lighthouse guides ships at sea

9. To go through fire and water→To face any difficulty and hardship to achieve some goal 

10. To make some dream come true→To make or cause some dream to be realised

11. To make a child walk on its feet→To teach how to walk by taking hands and balancing the child

12. To be out of question→(Something) To be impossible 

13. Blessed are those whose parents are still breathing→Those whose parents are alive are lucky.


Exercise 1 

Can you recall the synonyms and antonyms of the following words? 

1. Enlightened

2. Kind-hearted

3. Experienced 

4. Well-mannered

5. Serenity

6. To forgive

7. Hurtful

8. Expectation 

9. To conclude

10. To grant 


Answer keys 1:- 

(Synonyms) 

1. Knowledgeable

2. Soft-hearted

3. Skillful

4. Good-natured

5. Calmness

6. To pardon 

7. Painful

8. Expectancy

9. To finish

10. To give 


Answer keys 2:- 

(Antonyms)

1. Illiterate

2. Hard-hearted

3. Inexperienced

4. Bad-mannered

5. Agitation

6. To convict

7. Pleasant

8. Reality or fact 

9. To start

10. To refuse or disallow


Exercise 2

Do you understand the following idioms and phrases? 

1. To be out of question

2. To go through fire and water

3. To act as a lighthouse for

4. To look up to someone

5. To wear the pants in the family


Answer keys:- 

1. To be impossible

2. To face any difficulty 

3. To guide someone as a lighthouse guides ships at sea

4. To respect someone

5. To have the authority of making decisions in the family