Thanksgiving history. Extracurricular activity in English "Thanksgiving" Questions in English on the topic Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is a happy holiday on the fourth Thursday of each November. Americans of all religions celebrate this holiday with big dinners and family reunions. It is a time to remember all the good things in life and to be thankful. Turkey is a traditional Thanksgiving Day Food.

This holiday was founded by the Pilgrims. They were a group of English settlers who came to Massachusetts in 1620. The Pilgrims came to America because they wanted religious freedom.

Their first winter was difficult, and many of the Pilgrims died. But the following year, the corn harvest was good. And there was a celebration for three days. That was the first Thanksgiving.

Every Thanksgiving Macy's department store organizes a parade in New York City. In the parade there are balloons of popular cartoon characters, famous television stars, and bands from all over the United States.

Each year, more than 55 million people watch this parade on television. Many other large American cities also have Thanksgiving Day parades.

Watching college football games on television is also a typical Thanksgiving Day activity.

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Thanksgiving is a happy holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Americans of all faiths have big dinners and family reunions on this day. This is a time to remember all the good things in life and give thanks for it. Turkey - a traditional dish on Thanksgiving.

This holiday was founded by pilgrims. They were a group of English settlers who came to Massachusetts in 1620. The Pilgrims came to America because they wanted religious freedom.

The first winter was hard and many pilgrims died. But the next year the grain harvest was good. On this occasion, a three-day celebration was arranged. This was the first celebration dedicated to thanksgiving.

Every Thanksgiving, the Maysin department store organizes a parade in New York City. Balloons in the form of popular cartoon characters float in the parade, and famous television stars and musical groups from all over the United States take part in this celebration.

Every year more than 55 million people watch this parade on TV. Many major US cities also organize Thanksgiving Day parades.

Watching college football games on television is a typical pastime on this day.

Questions:

1. When is Thanksgiving celebrated?
2. What is the meaning of Thanksgiving Day?
3. What is a traditional food for this holiday?
4. Who were the Pilgrims?
5. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
6. What are traditional Thanksgiving activities?

Vocabulary:

reunion - meeting, assembly
turkey - turkey
to found - found
settler - settler
corn -- grain
harvest - harvest
cartoon characters - cartoon characters

Almost in every culture in the world there is a celebration of thanks for rich harvest. The American Thanksgiving began as a feast of thanksgiving almost four hundred years ago.

In 1620, a religious community sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. They settled in what is now known as the state of Massachusetts.

Their first winter in America was difficult. They arrived too late to grow a rich harvest. Moreover, half the colony died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn. Indians showed them also how to grow other crops and how to hunt and fish.

In the autumn of 1621 they got a beautiful harvest of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so they planned a feast. Local Indian chief and ninety Indians were present. The colonists learned from Indians how to cook cranberries and dishes of corn and pumpkins.

In the following years many of the colonists celebrated the harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States gained independence, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole country.

Later, George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then, after the Civil war, Abraham Lincoln suggested the last Thursday in November to be the day of thanksgiving.

On Thanksgiving Day, family members gather at the house of an older relative, even if they live far away. All give thanks for everything good they have. Charitable organizations offer traditional meal to the homeless.

Foods, eaten at the first thanksgiving, have become traditional. The traditional thanksgiving meal consists of roast turkey stuffed with herb-flavoured bread, cranberry jelly, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie. Other dishes may vary as to region: ham, sweet potatoes, creamed corn.

Translation:

Almost every culture in the world has a celebration of gratitude for a rich harvest. American Thanksgiving began as a celebration of gratitude almost four hundred years ago.

In 1620, the religious community crossed the Atlantic to settle in the New World. She settled in what is now Massachusetts.

The first winter in America was full of difficulties for the settlers. They arrived too late to grow a rich harvest. Moreover, half of the colony died from disease. The following spring, the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn. The Indians also showed them how to grow other vegetables and how to hunt and fish.

In the autumn of 1621 they had a bountiful harvest of corn, barley, beans, and gourds. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a celebration was planned. It was attended by the local chief and ninety Indians. The colonists learned from the Indians to cook dishes from cranberries, corn, and pumpkins.

In later years, many colonists celebrated their harvest with a gratitude feast. After the United States gained independence, Congress recommended one day of the year as Thanksgiving for the entire nation.

Later, George Washington suggested that Thanksgiving should be celebrated on November 26th. Then after civil war, Abraham Lincoln proposed to celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November.

On Thanksgiving Day, family members gather at the house of an older relative, even if they live far away. Everyone expresses gratitude for all the good things they have. Charities offer a traditional lunch to the homeless.

The dishes that were at the first Thanksgiving holiday have become traditional. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner consists of roast turkey stuffed with spiced bread, cranberry jelly, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Other dishes may be added depending on the region: ham, sweet potatoes, creamed corn.

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Leading:

Hello children! I'm very glad to see you.

Children:

Leading:

Let's greet each other with a cheerful song.

Song "Hello, how are you"

Leading:

Today we are celebrating Thanksgiving Day. What do you think gratitude is? What are we usually grateful for? (children's answers) Right. We must thank for the help, hospitality, for science. Gratitude is appreciated by all peoples of the world. In America, there is even such a holiday, Thanksgiving Day. It has a very long history.

Almost 400 years ago in England lived people who were called pilgrims. English king drove them out of the country, they boarded a ship with the beautiful name "Mayflower" - "May flower" - and went to America. They sailed for two months and finally landed in a new country. It was not easy for the pilgrims: they suffered from cold and hunger, many were sick. A tribe of Indians came to their aid.

Today we will play pilgrims and Indians.

Children are divided into two teams: pilgrims and Indians.

Song "Ten little Indians"

Leading:

The Indians taught the travelers, whom they called their pale-faced brothers, everything that helped them survive in an unfamiliar land. First of all, they taught them how to fish.

Fishing game

Two "catchers" and 8-10 "fish" are selected from among the children. The catchers hold the "fishing net" - a large headscarf - by the ends and raise their hands up. Fish swim under the net. Everyone rhymes in unison:

Fish is here

At the end of the rhyme, the "catchers" cover with a handkerchief the child who at that moment runs between them. The caught player replaces one of the drivers. The game continues.

Leading:

The Indians also taught the settlers how to grow vegetables and fruits. Let's help them harvest.

Game "Fruit and vegetables"

On the floor are cardboard vegetables and fruits, pierced in the middle with a stapler. Two children are selected, with the help of a magnetic fishing rod, one collects vegetables in a basket, the other - fruits. Then everyone calls the harvest in English.

Game "Collect potatoes"

Children are divided into 2 teams. Task: transfer one potato in a spoon from a hoop (bed-hole) to a bucket. Whose team will harvest faster.

Leading:

The Indians taught travelers to hunt the wild turkey, a bird that the Pilgrims had never seen before because it was not found in England.

Poem "Turkey"

A turkey is a funny bird,

His head goes wobble, wobble.

He knows just one funny word

Gobble, gobble, gobble.

Leading:

Since then, all Thanksgiving traditions have been associated with this bird. Let's try and catch a turkey.

Game "Catch the turkey"

Children form a circle, holding hands raised up. "Turkey" (or several "turkeys") move freely inside the circle, out and back. Everyone says the rhyme:

Thanksgiving Day!

Turkey, turkey, run away!

We are cooking soup today!

At the end of the rhyme, the children lower their hands. "Turkeys" that are in a circle are considered to be caught.

Leading:

How many turkeys have we caught! But they didn't find all of them. We have a few more hiding in the hall.

Turkey hunt game

Pictures depicting a turkey are previously hidden in the hall (the number corresponds to the number of children). Children are divided into two teams and go hunting. Hunting should take place in complete silence so as not to frighten away the birds. The team that finds the most turkeys wins. At the end of the holiday, pictures can be distributed to children as a keepsake.

Musical turkeys game

Make turkey footprints from colored tape and stick them on the floor (6-7 pieces). 6-7 players are selected. To cheerful music, children pretend to be turkeys. As soon as the music stops, each turkey must find its own trail. Then, in each round, remove one trace. Anyone who did not have time to get on the trail is out of the game. Play until a winner is determined.

Leading:

Now let's sing a song about the turkey.

Song "I eat turkey"

I eat turkey (point to self)

Yes, I do (nod head)

Turkey in my tummy (rub tummy)

Yummy, yummy, yummy (rub tummy)

Good for me (point to self)

Good for you (point to self).

Leading:

Many years have passed since that time, but every year on the last Thursday of November, Americans celebrate this holiday and call it Thanksgiving Day. At the table, on which there are dishes of various vegetables and without fail roast turkey, all relatives gather. Before starting dinner, they thank the Lord for allowing them to survive that terrible year.

"Thank you" poem

Thank you God for the world so sweet,

Thank you God for the food we eat,

Thank you God for the birds that sing,

Thank you God for everything!

Leading:

With this, our holiday came to an end. Thank you all and see you soon!

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Extracurricular activity in English

Thanksgiving Day

Smelova Olga Anatolievna,
English teacher
St. Petersburg GBPOU "Academy of the beauty industry "LOKON"

Technology: competition game

Developing:

1. Development of memory and attention, language, intellectual and cognitive abilities of students, their feelings and emotions.

2. Development of readiness for communication based on the proposed language material.

3. Development of creative imagination, initiatives in the implementation of foreign language speech activity.

4. Development of interdisciplinary communication (with history).

Educational:

1. Expansion of erudition, the general outlook of students.

2. Acquaintance with vocabulary on the topic "Thanksgiving".

3. Conducting the practice of speech activity.

Educational:

1. Education in students of a sense of beauty.

2. Creation of conditions for the formation of students' tolerant attitude to the traditions and customs of other peoples.

3. Education of readiness to cooperate in the performance of specific tasks.

4. Raising a sense of collectivism, mutual assistance, responsibility.

1.Introduction:

Today we are going to speak about one of the oldest holidays in the USA - Thanksgiving Day. People of all countries always give thanks at harvest time. In ancient times Romans and Greeks gave thanks to their Gods. They celebrated the holiday holding parades, with dancing and some kind of sport competitions. Some time later the Christians started to thank God at harvest time. In Europe the farmers decorated themselves and their houses with ribbons, flowers and autumn fruit. They sang and danced and had a very nice holiday. Today, at our lesson, we'll learn how and when this holiday appeared in America. We'll know who the Pilgrims were, why they gave thanks, what for and whom they thanked.

2. Division into teams. "INDIANS", "PILIGRIMS".

3. Work at the blackboard (semantization of vocabulary).

Pilgrims, harvest, fish, sauce, chicken, religion, celebration, to hunt, tomato, porridge, brave, to celebrate, pumpkin, potato, struggle, cranberry, God, faith, orange, feast, turkey, to grow, banana, to pray, to praise, holiday, sick, Indians, to survive, corn, apple, pie, beans.

Purpose: To divide into the following groups:

plants
Cooked food
History of the holiday

4. Presentation of the holiday: expressive reading of the text and poem. For two teams.

There is one day a year in America when all people stay home with their family and eat a big dinner. This is Thanksgiving Day. The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in autumn 1621. They sailed to America from Plymouth, England in September, 1620. Their voyage took 3 months. They came to America for religious freedom. The name of their ship was the Mayflower. They landed in December, 1620.

There were people living in America before the Pilgrims arrived. These people were the Native American Indians. They hunted, fished and farmed to survive. The Pilgrims` first winter was very difficult. They had arrived too late to grow any crops. Without fresh food half of the Pilgrims died. The following spring the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to plant, fish, hunt and survive in America, to grow corn, pumpkins and use cranberries.

The crops did well and in the fall of 1621 the Pilgrims had a great harvest. They were thankful and decided to celebrate it with a Thanksgiving feast. They prepared a big dinner of turkey, corn, beans and pumpkins. They invited their Indian friends to share this three days feast. The Indians brought their food to the feast, too.

Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving day in the fall. It is celebrated on the last Thursday of November. Turkey is still the main dish and pumpkin pie and cranberry pie are the most popular desserts.

Thanksgiving Day is associated with certain symbols and food. Turkey is a part of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, as well as pumpkin pie and cranberries. The Horn of Plenty is a familiar Thanksgiving symbol. It reminds us that our food comes from the earth. Indian corn is used as a decoration.

To grandmother's house we go

The horse knows the way

To carry the sleigh

Through white and drifted snow

Over the river and through the wood

Oh how the wind does blow

It strings the nose

And bites the toes

As over the ground we go

Over the river and through the wood

Trot fast my dapple gray

Spring over the ground Like a hunting hound

For this is Thanksgiving day!

Over the river and through the wood

Now grandmother's face I spy!

Hurrah for the fun!

Is the pudding done?

Hurrah for the pumpkin pie

5. Main part (competitions)

1. Using the suggested words, translate the sentences into English.

Severe conditions Pilgrims, to survive, how, in, Turkey, Thanksgiving Day, America, widely celebrated, is, still, a traditional dish, in, is, this holiday, of, taught, Indians.

Thanksgiving is still widely celebrated in America.

Turkey is a traditional dish of this holiday

The Indians taught the Pilgrims how to survive in harsh conditions.

2. Form words.

1. IAGKHTNSAIIVN
2. EUTKYR
3. IPE LPAEP
4. MYAFLI
5.ESDFINR
6. GSIPMRL I
7.EPI KNUPMIP
8. ISNDANI

3. Match the word and its meaning

1.) annual 2.) feast 3.) harvest 4.) stuffing 5.) survive6.) band

a. stay alive

b. happening every year

c. celebration of the holiday

d. putting food inside meat or vegetables

e. the collection of fruits and vegetables

f. a group of musicians

4. Choose the translation option that most fully (literally) reflects the content and internal structure poems.

THANKSGIVING/. O.Eastwick

Thank you for all my hands can hold

apples red and melons gold,

yellow corn both ripe and sweet,

peas and beans so good to eat!

Thank you for all my eyes can see -

lovely sunlight, field and tree,

white cloud-boats in sea-deep sky,

soaring bird and butterfly.

Thank you for all my ears hear-

birds" song echoing far and near,

songs of little stream, big sea,

cricket, bullfrog, duck and bee!

I want to say thank you

For the harvest you land

for red apples,

for beautiful melons

Everything sweet and ripe

In winter, we will put everything into action!

I want to say thank you

For the beauty of your land!

Behind the sun is light, behind the sky is clear,

and for your all-powerful winds.

For the clouds in the distant sky

Soar like birds, flying away

thank you for that

What a lot to hear!

And the sound of the stream and the singing of birds

All I hear and love

Thank you for everything!

Thanks to

For everything I have

What gives our beautiful land:

Apples, melons, peas and beans,

And sweet corn fruit,

Which are so good to eat!

Thanks to

For all that I can see -

and sunlight, and trees, and hay in a haystack.

That clouds-ships float in the deep sky,

And butterflies quietly flutter around the warm earth.

Thanks to

For what I can hear -

The quacking of a duck on the shore,

Birdsong, cricket chirping,

The croaking of a toad, the babbling of a stream,

The moans of the winds that disturb the seas

Thank you for what is on Earth:

Apple trees, melons, peas on the table

There is grain in the field, and there is a nut in the forest

Everything that is useful and tasty for everyone.

Thank you for seeing eyes

The sun and the sea, and there is a dragonfly,

Sky and stars, flowers in hands,

White bird flies in the clouds.

Thanks for listening ducks.

Birdsong, cuckoo chirping,

The croaking of toads and the babbling of the stream

For the fact that I live and rejoice.

Thank you for the fact that I can hug:

Watermelons, melons, kiwi, dried apricots,

Beans, peas and pears,

It would be nice to eat!

Thank you for letting me see:

A ray of sunshine through the window

Fields, trees, clouds in the sky,

Soaring birds, night moth.

Thank you for what I hear

A chorus of frogs, a murmur of a brook.

And trills of birds, sea surf,

Thank you for everything that is given to me by fate!

6. Summing up, rewarding teams.

Thanksgiving is coming up, and for English learners, it's an occasion to read English language about this holiday and test your knowledge by answering the quiz questions.

Today we have prepared for you two stories in English about Thanksgiving, its history and symbols. For each story there is a small quiz that will help you find out how carefully the students read the story. Just in case, a page with the correct answers is attached to each quiz. All texts are without age limit, but are designed for the “Advanced” level of English.

The first Thanksgiving is a classic story about the first Thanksgiving in America.
You can download the archive (text in English + quiz + answers) at the link

Celebrate Thanksgiving Day- a very interesting informative article, from which I learned a lot of new facts. You can download the archive (text in English + quiz + answers) at the link

And if you already know a lot of Thanksgiving facts, we advise you to test your knowledge in a fun online quiz.

This quiz is very helpful., because if you make a mistake, you will immediately be prompted for the correct answer and you will never forget it.

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