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英语作文给妈妈写信(通用19篇)

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介绍妈妈的英语作文Mymother

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我的妈妈,长着一张漂亮的脸蛋,嘴巴小小的,一头乌黑的长发,总是披在肩上,看上去像仙女一般,我喜欢我的妈妈。

My mother, with a pretty face, small mouth, long black hair, always put on the shoulders, looks like a fairy, I love my mother.

妈妈对我很严格。记得有一次,我写了个错字,妈妈说:“再给我写十遍!”我很不高兴地走开了,心想:不就是几个字吗?用得着写这么多?不过最终我写好了这个字,啊!看见自己写的字,真是一种享受啊!多亏妈妈教育了我!

My mother is strict with me. I remember once, I wrote a typo, mother said: "give me write ten times!" I was very unhappy and walked away, I thought: is not a few words? Need to write so much? But in the end Id written the words, ah! See their own handwriting, is really a kind of enjoyment! Thanks to my mom taught me!

妈妈很爱我,只要我爱吃什么,妈妈就尽力地帮我做。每当我生病的时候,妈妈特别着急,她会细心地照料着我。虽然妈妈每天很累,但她还是经常带我去我喜欢的地方玩。

Mother love me very much, as long as I like to eat what, mother will try to help me to do. When I was ill, my mother was anxious, she will be careful to take care of me. Although the mother is very tired every day, but she still often take me to the place I love.

“谁言寸草心,报得三春晖”,有妈妈的爱是幸福的,我爱我的妈妈。

"Who grass inch heart, reported in the apartments", a mothers love is happy, I love my mother.

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篇1:我的妈妈英语作文初3

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I have a kind mother. Here, let me use the "language" camera to take a

picture of her!

She has a pair of big eyes and double-fold eyelid. Tilted slightly under

the nose of asevere mouth, is not tall. Mothers hand is very rough, because dad

on a business trip in the outside, mum do all the chores. Such as cleaning,

washing clothes and so on, her hand how does not become rough? Rough hands it

doesnt matter, however, when her hands gently pat when I fell asleep, will also

bring me warm, let I drifted into sleep.

At ordinary times mom to my learning method is very concerned about. No

matter how busy, she will carefully check my homework, I wont do topic she

would teach me patiently. If the homework careless, she often remind me, want me

to be careful. She comforted me: "you are also pretty good, get rid of this

trouble, would be much good." Listen to the mother, I told myself, must correct

the flaws of this careless. Summer, mom know I study very tired, you take me to

travel, see the world, I have learned many knowledge outside.

Because I love my mom, so I know, mom, mom is of concern to me, so I am

proud of I have a good mother.

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篇2:描写妈妈的英语

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My mother

My mother’s name is nancy. She has long hair, two big eyes My mother likes sports and shopping. Her favourite sports are football and yoga. And her favourite food is ice cream. She also likes dogs and cats.

My mother is a high school techer, she works very hard and does very well in the school.

My mother also concerns my study. She always helps me study and play the piano. She is very glad when I make progress.

My mother loves me very much. And I love my mother too!

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篇3:,初中写我的妈妈英语作文

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My mother is thirty-four years old and does not look old. Melon seeds face a pair of watery eyes, tall tall, the body is not fat nor thin.

Mom loves me more attention to my study. Some time ago Galen English teacher told us there is a national English game, hope we can actively participate in, show yourself. I signed up for an English song contest. Big after that, my mother began to go online to find songs, lock the song after her mother to learn to sing their own, every day humming ah, after the concert began to teach me.

Mothers song for me is the English version of the Girl with Wings Wings. At that time and in the final review stage, immediately to test, my mother did not delay my review of the case every day out of an hour to help me practice singing, correct my pronunciation. I have successfully passed the preliminary round of the stadium, Jinzhou City, the semi-finals, entered the finals of the Liao Dynasty Division, if the Liao in the Division can take on the National Finals, and that I hope for a long time.

Mother is very honorable parents. Once, my grandmother was sick, slightly cerebral thrombosis was admitted to the hospital. This can be anxious mother, and she every day in the hospital care grandmother, wash her face to help her practice walking, busy outside. Grandmother came home after discharge, my mother and take the housework, laundry, cooking, mopping the land ... ... every year when the mother will not forget to give grandparents to buy some gifts. I want my mother as an example, but also a good boy to honor their parents.

Every summer, my mother always said he was fat, eat two meals a day, you know why she did so because she wanted to lose weight, wear fashion clothes, so that they become more beautiful.

This is my mother, sometimes gentle, sometimes severe, sometimes cute, I love my beautiful mom.

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篇4:写信的英语作文100字

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Dear mother:

Hello!

Mom, this is my first time to write to you, very excited, many words do not

know where to start, usually I am more willful, there are a lot of thanks to

you, and do not want to say to you. Today, let me take this opportunity to tell

you a daughters gratitude.

When I was young, you began to have long hair for me. You said girls had

long hair and beautiful hair. But this is a lot of trouble for you, but for your

daughters beauty, I wash my hair once every 32 days and comb a beautiful

hairstyle. Every time I wash my hair, Im afraid Im cold or ironed. You always

adjust the water temperature so well. The children in the community envy me that

I have a good mother.

After I go to primary school, you always get up early every morning and

wake me up after a good meal, but sometimes I still pick and pick, and dont eat

well and make you sad. But you never get angry with me. Instead, you do it for

me on the second day. On the way to school, I saw other children taking the cake

and eating while walking. I wanted to tell you, "Mom, how nice you are!"

Remember last semester, when the math unit test, there was a simple

formula, because of my carelessness made a mistake, you see after very angry,

very hard to criticize me. At that time, I almost cried by your quarrel, but I

knew in my heart that your severity was for my good.

Mom, here I want to say to you, "Mom, I love you!" You are hard! "

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篇5:给地球妈妈的一封信写信作文

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亲爱的地球妈妈

您好!

我们都生活在您温暖的怀抱中,您给了我们美丽的山川,清澈的河流,茂密的森林,让我们生活在一个鸟语花香的世界。春天,我们沐浴着和煦的春风,随柳树跳舞,夏天,我们在清凉的海水中,陪小鱼游戏,秋天,我们在硕果累累的果园里,和农民伯伯一起开心的笑,冬天,我们在银装素裹的雪地里,和小雪人一起成长。在您温暖的怀抱里,我们快乐的学习,开心的游戏,茁壮的成长。

可是,人类却不懂得珍惜您,爱护您,他们随意的砍伐树木,把茂密的森林变成了光秃秃的小山,把绿洲变成了沙漠,把清澈的小溪变成了一个个的污水池,人们任性的损坏,使您变得伤痕累累,无法承受。沙尘暴是您愤怒的吼声吧,海啸是您伤心的眼泪吧,地震是您在痛疼的颤抖吧。

亲爱的地球妈妈,看到伤痕累累,满目痍疮的您,我是那么心疼,是我们的随意破坏,是我们的任意妄为,才造成了您的伤害,以后,我一定会严格的要求自己,不随地乱扔东西,不攀折花草树木,生活中节水节电,我还会呼吁我们少先队员们一起行动起来,用我们自己的力量,自己的方式去保护您,做一个合格的地球小公民。

亲爱的地球妈妈,祝愿您早日健康、开心起来。

[给地球妈妈的一封写信作文

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篇6:妈妈的爱英语作文

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Our mother is the one who gives birth to us, she is patient and kind. When we are making mistakes, our father will be angry and beat us, but mother does the other way, she talks to our father, letting him pace and forgives for what we do. Mother’s love is so tender, we grow up with it. When Mothers’ Day comes, we should show our love to her.

我们的妈妈是赋予我们生命的人,她很有耐心和友好。当我们范错误的时候,爸爸会很生气并且要打我们,但是妈妈的做法相反,她和爸爸交流,让他平静下来,原谅我们所做的。妈妈的爱如此温和,我们伴随着爱长大。当母亲节到来的时候,我们应该向妈妈表达爱。

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篇7:,初中写我的妈妈英语作文

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My mother, thirty years old, medium tall, slim figure, melon face, long with a bright long hair, every day wearing a ponytail, put in the back of the head to go. A pair of thin long eyebrows with a pair of water Lingling big eyes, high nose bridge with a pair of black box glasses, it is very gentle. I like to see my mother laugh, my mother laughed and exposed a white teeth, looks very good. You do not be confused by the appearance of my mother, but at home, but a "king" it.

I remember once, my mother told me to practice calligraphy words, I reluctantly, absent-minded, bent on watching TV, three times under the two write a few words written, then my mother came over and saw my word , Without any explanation, "snapped ... ... snapped ... ...", gave me two slap, pulled me just wrote the word, kneaded into a ball, torn to pieces, thrown into the trash, pointing to me, reprimanded: " With this attitude, but also want to write a good brush.

I clutching my mother had just hit the red face, silent, two drops of tears from the eyes of the flow out, I re-pick up the pen, seriously began to write. I know my mother is good for me, she often educated me: young and strong do not work, the boss was sad. My mom is a bit impatient, but she is very capable and hardworking. Morning, the day is not bright, my mother to get up early to do breakfast, laundry, and so on when we have a sumptuous breakfast to show in my eyes, fragrant.

How, i have a best mother in the world, envy it!

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篇8:小学生描写妈妈的英语作文

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My mother’s name is nancy. She has long hair, two big eyes My mother likes sports and shopping. Her favourite sports are football and yoga. And her favourite food is ice cream. She also likes dogs and cats.

我母亲的名字是南茜。她有长长的头发,两只大眼睛,我的母亲喜欢运动和购物。她最喜欢的运动是足球,瑜伽。她最喜欢的食物是冰激凌。她也喜欢狗和猫。

My mother is a high school techer, she works very hard and does very well in the school.

我的妈妈是一个中学老师,她工作很努力,也很好的学校。

My mother also concerns my study. She always helps me study and play the piano. She is very glad when I make progress.

我妈妈也很关心我的学习。她总是帮助我学习和弹钢琴。她很高兴,当我取得进步。

My mother loves me very much. And I love my mother too!

我非常爱我的母亲。我爱我的母亲!

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篇9:写信介绍家乡英语

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dear eric,

HuangMei is my hometown. It is in the East in HuBei.It is East on the city named AnQing of AnHui.And it is south to the city named JiuJiang of JiangXi. It is a great city in my heart.It has a long history for about 1800 years in China .Example .The temple named SiZu and WuZu were in HuangMei for a long years-old.Today,Every year many visitor come different part to there.As a daughter from Huangmei.I leaved it away for about seven years. But I miss it everyday .Even in a lot of my dream in the night .I belive HuangMei will be richer and richer .The new year 2009 will going .Tonight I hope everything will be well in my new 26 years-old.All my friends will be well.I must work hard in the new year.I will be ain growth as my hometown .

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篇10:人物英语作文:我的爸爸妈妈

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I have a busy father and a kind mother.

有一个忙碌的爸爸和一个慈祥的妈妈

My father is a businessman. He is 42 years old. He is short. He likes reading newspapers after meals. He watches TV in the evening. He goes to work by car. He has got a nice black car. He often plays golf with his friends on the weekend. He does not often eat dinner with us.

爸爸是一位商人。他今年42岁。他不高。他喜欢饭后看报纸。晚上的时候他会看电视。他有一辆黑色的漂亮的车。他开车去上班。他经常和朋友在周末的时候打高尔夫。他不是经常跟我们一起吃晚饭。

My mother is a housewife. She doesn’t work. She stays at home. She is beautiful. She has long hair. She does housework in the morning. She often goes shopping in the afternoon. She is kind, but she is strict with my study. She likes reading. She watches TV at night, too.

妈妈是一个家庭主妇。她没有工作。一般呆在家里。她很漂亮。她有一头长发。她上午的时候做家务。下午的时候去购物。她很和蔼,但是对我的学习要求严格。她喜欢看书。她晚上的时候也看电视。

I love my parents. And they love me too.

爱我的父母。他们也很爱我。

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篇11:妈妈生日英语作文50字

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Today is my mother s birthday. My father and I wanted to give her surprising birthday presents.

In the morning we went to the shop and bought a big cake. Then we went to the market and bought some food that mother liked very much. After getting home, we began to prepare our presents. Father went into the kitchen to prepare a big meal while I went into my room to make a birthday card. I drew three rabbits biggest one was eating grass while the other two were playing happily under a big tree. To tell you the truth, it was my family because all of us were born in the year of rabbit.

It was almost 12 o clock. The delicious food on the table made my mouth water. Everything was ready. We seated ourselves at the table, waiting for my mother. When we heardthe sound of opening the door, we hid behind the door and cheered, Happy Birthday! as soon as mother came in.

Mother was seated at the table and I showed her my present. She looked at it and smiled. Have a taste of the delicious food. It was made by Father himself. I said. Mother looked at my father and me, picking up her chopsticks.

How happy we were!

[妈妈生日英语作文50字

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篇12:B称谓Salutation英语作文写信格式

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称谓写信人对收信人的称谓,如Dear Xiaojun,写在信头的下方和信笺的右边。称谓一样平常用Dear…或My dear…扫尾,称谓后一样平常用逗号。

地点要由小到大。

b.朋侪间的信函无需加上写信人地点和收信人地点。

c.称谓语用Dear+姓(正式),Dear+名(朋侪间)。十分任意的函件可直呼其名。

d.末端语或竣事语可凭据现实环境用:

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Looking forward to seeing you.

(With)best wishes/regards!

All the best!

Good Luck!

Give my best wishes/regards to……!

e.题名也分正式与非正式两种:英语作文写信格式

正式:“Yours sincerely,”、“Yours faithfully, ”或“Sincerely yours,”、“Faithfully yours. ”

非正式,朋侪间等:“Love, ”大概“Yours ever, ”

g.写信工夫可用月、日、年款式或年、月、日款式。

f.署名也视写信人与收信人的干系而定,一样平常与称谓同等。如称谓用名,写信人的署名也用名。

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篇13:,初中写我的妈妈英语作文

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I have a mother, a mother who is very concerned about my mother.

She has a pair of gentle eyes, with a red frame of glasses, a banana nose, a big mouth always love nagging, nagging up I will be annoying. Mother also laugh, funny mouth has wrinkled. Mother said she was old, but I do not let her mother say she is old, I want my mother forever young! Sometimes my mother said she was old when I cry, because I know the old will die.

Once I dream of my mother out of the water, and I quickly ran home to play my mothers cell phone, I think my mother will pick up, but my mother did not answer the phone, has not picked up ... ... I wanted my mother died, I was sad , My mother shouted after the mother shouted to my side, holding my mother and then cry, my mother thought how, when I said: "Mom, I dreamed of your death." When the mother around me Said: "silly boy, dream of mother died is to Mom Tim life." And said: "not my daughter to support adults how can die? Baby cry! Mother will not die! From this dream, I will not let mother say she was old.

I remember when I was on kindergarten. My mother put down the work, ran home for me to cure, because I burn too much, my mother sent me to the clinic, the doctor did not dare to take, my mother gave me to the hospital. I lay on the bed, give me a needle, my mother cried, I cried, I know my mother is distressed I cried. So I burned, my mother went to buy me a book, I do not like, my mother gave me to buy a frame organ, my mother know that I love playing the keyboard, too expensive to buy too expensive.

After a few days, my illness is good, my mother happy, I am more happy!

Now the frame is still in my hut.

I love my piano, love my mom more!

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篇14:介绍我的妈妈英语作文

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My mother is a teacher .She is not tall and a little fat .She has big eyes and long hair .

She loves me very much,but she is very strict to me, she requires me to develop good study habits especially in study .

Once I finished my homework ,but I did not check my homework because I wanted to play .

My mother checked my homework and fond many mistakes .

So she scolded me and let me corrected it . My mother love me very much ,but She is hard to me .I love my mother .

She is the most beautiful and best mother for me.

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篇15:妈妈的英语作文

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My mother is a doctor, she is very beautiful, very gentle. I love her very much.

Her height is not high also not short, long curly hair, neat bang, big eyes double-fold eyelid, twinkle. Nose a little big, cherry small mouth, speak to one, very cute. How her shapely, great body, never sick. Her character lively and outgoing, can with my classmates mother shao half a day; She was a gourmet, often take me to eat a lot of delicious things.

She is also very industrious, sweep the floor mop the floor every day, cooking laundry, cleaning, have to hurry. I said to her: "mother, give yourself a break! Today is the international working womens day, I send you a small gift." Mother touch my head and said: "good boy, do you really understand, when you grow up, what small gifts?" I took out a hand cream on her mothers hand in the heart, said: "mother, your hands are split, very ache! This can make your hand is very smooth. I wish mom happy holidays!" Mother took the hand cream, his eyes filled with tears, held me in her arms, said "thank you, children, as long as you study hard, have a good life, grow up to become a social good and mother satisfied."

In the future I want to listen to your mother, not a bit angry mother, study hard, strive for the greatest advances, repay mothers love for me.

我的妈妈是一名白衣天使,她很漂亮,很温柔。我很爱她。

她的身高不高也不矮,长长的卷发,齐刘海,大大的眼睛双眼皮,炯炯有神。鼻子略微有点大,樱桃小嘴,说起话来一张一张的,很可爱。她身材匀称,身体很棒,从来不怎么生病。她的性格活泼,比较外向,和我同学的妈妈在一起能韶半天;她还是个美食家,经常带我一起去吃很多美味可口的东西。

她也很勤劳,天天扫地拖地,做饭洗衣,整理房间,忙得不停。我对她说:“妈妈,你休息一会儿吧!今天是妇女节,我送你一个小礼物。”妈妈摸摸我头说:“好孩子,你真懂事,你长大了,什么小礼物啊?”我拿出一只护手霜放在妈妈的手心里,说:“妈妈,你的手都有裂口了,很疼吧!这个可以让你的手变得很光滑的。祝妈妈节日快乐!”妈妈接过护手霜,眼睛里充满了泪水,把我抱在怀里,说“谢谢你,孩子,你只要好好学习,好好做人,长大成为社会有用之才,妈妈就满足了。”

我今后一点要听妈妈的话,不惹妈妈生气,刻苦学习,争取最大的进步,报答妈妈对我的爱。

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篇16:,初中写我的妈妈英语作文

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My mother forty years ago, the years of the wind and frost in her face carved a deep road wrinkles. Mother is a national cadre. Brother and sister six, grandfather is not wealthy, she did not go to high school, seventeen years old in the county a factory in the workers. Mother work very well, many times was rated as a model worker.

While working, while learning, she also passed the adult self-examination. Later, my mother was honored to be recruited as an official cadre. Mother from small body weakness, has been sick, life is very hard. At that time, my father in the township when the leadership, work very busy, poor traffic conditions, away from home and far. My mother to take care of her sister to primary school, but also to help grandparents and grandfather care for some housework, their work and can not escape the body.

Mom said to me: "work and life, although a little tired, but the days of the very full." In recent years, my mother finally got rid of the disease plagued, but she lived is not easy. Dads work transferred to the outside county, my sister and I went to school in Taiyuan, the old age of the elderly are big. She returned home to visit the elderly, running Taiyuan to take care of me and my sister, usually in the stone but also cooking fathers life.

I had to leave for the whole family. When I saw my mother running around, hey! My mother is so hard ah! Last year, winter vacation, my mother did not come to me, I really do not know what happened? Later, my father told me, my mother made a Small surgery. My father and I hurried back to the stone, all the way my heart is about to jump out.

When I took the certificate to the mothers bed before the eyes full of tears suddenly burst out, I do not know what to say with my mother! Mom looked at me, tears, put me tightly in my arms , With her hard-working hands stroking me. My mother is kind and kind. I love my mom!

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篇17:我的妈妈英语

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My mother is a hostess. She has a long hair and she is of medium height. I think she is beautiful. My mother loves dogs because she thinks theyre very cute.

My mother is a laborious woman. She works ten hours a day.

My mother is with great concern me. I love my mother!

妈妈是女主人。她有一头长发,她中等身高。我认为她是美丽的。我妈妈喜欢狗,因为她认为它们很可爱。

我的母亲是一个勤劳的女人。她每天工作十个小时。

我的母亲非常关心我。我爱我的母亲!

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篇18:六年级英语作文:给妈妈的一封信

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导语:慈母手中线,游子身上衣,你有没有写过妈妈呢?以下是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语作文,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!

Dear mother,

I have been good at school. I often think of you when I go to bed because we always go for a walk before go to bed at home. So I miss you everyday. Do you miss me? Why don’t you call me? I’ve got a lot of things to tell you. One of the things is about foreign teacher’s daughter. Her name’s Skyler. She lives in Canada. She comes to our class to learn Chinese and English with me in my class. This afternoon, when it was art and craft class, our class were cleaning the gymnasium. And she did it with us too. So I usually talk to her when she doesn’t know what to do? But when the class is over, I always haven’t got enough time to talk to her. And I usually can’t find her. So we don’t have time to introduce to each other. But it is the first time that I have a foreign student. So I’m very happy! Mum, you often tell me, “If you are happy, I’ll be happy, too.” So you have to be happy, because I’m happy! I like you when you are happy!

In the end I wish you everything is just fine!

Yours,

Sophia.

翻译

亲爱的妈妈,

我一直在学校好。我经常在睡觉的时候想起你,因为我们总是在回家前散步。所以我每天都在想你。你想我吗?你为什么不打电话给我?我有很多事情要告诉你。其中一件事是关于外籍教师的女儿。她的名字是斯凯勒。她住在加拿大。她来我班学习汉语和英语与我在我的类。今天下午,当我们上美术课的时候,我们班正在打扫体育馆。她也和我们一起做了。所以当她不知道该怎么做时,我通常和她说话?但是当课结束的时候,我总是没有足够的时间和她说话。我通常找不到她。所以我们没有时间互相介绍。但这是我第一次有一个外国学生。所以我很高兴!妈妈,你经常告诉我,“如果你快乐,我也会快乐”,所以你必须快乐,因为我快乐!当你快乐的时候我喜欢你!

最后我希望你一切都好!

你的,

索菲亚。

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篇19:关于妈妈的英语作文:My mother

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My mother has no idea that her ninetieth birthday is coming up. She has no notion of the time of day, the day of the week. the season of the year, the year of the century. No notion of the approaching millennium. And no idea any longer, who I am. Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. "Does that mean I had you?" she asked. 1 said yes. "Where was I when l had you?" she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. "So much has happened to me in my life." she said "You cant expect me to remember everything."

My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the common dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety, but nothing moves her from her stupor except occasional moments of fear, too deep for medication. This is a room that has no windows, that lets in no light, in which an overlarge TV is constantly blaring, sending images that no one looks at where the floors are beige tiles, the walls cream colored at the bottom, papered halfway up with a pattern of nearly invisible grayish leaves. Many of the residents sit staring, slack-jawed, open mouthed. I find it impossible to imagine what they might be looking at.

When I walk into the dining room on the day of my mothers birthday, I see that she has already been served lunch. The staff has forgotten to hold it back. Though I told them a week ago that I would be providing lunch. She hasn’t touched anything on her tray except a piece of carrot cake, which she holds in her hands. The icing is smeared on her hands and face. I dont want my friends to see her smeared with icing, so I wet a paper towel and wipe her. This fills me with a terrible tenderness, recalling, as it does. a gesture I have performed for my children. As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead. I tell her its her birthday, that shes ninety years old. "How did that happen?" she asks. "I cant understand how that could happen."

l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much. She likes the name. "Snapdragons. It seems like an animal thats going to bite inc. But its not an animal, its a plant. Thats a funny thing,"

I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. I have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.

My friends Nola and Gary come for my mothers birthday. When we are about to leave, I tell my mother that Im going on vacation, mat I wont see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "How will I stand that, how will I stand thats she says, but I know that a minute after I’m gone shell forget I was there.

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