5e - 3. Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving

What are the roots of Thanksgiving and how is it celebrated?

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Objectives

Final Project: Write a letter about Thanksgiving

Culture: History of Thanksgiving, New York on Thanksgiving Day, the Native Americans

Grammar: present simple, preterit with regular and irregular verbs

Vocabulary: food, travel and exploration, celebration, Thanksgiving

Writing: how to write a letter

Vocabulary

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 1

Born in the USA

Objective : discover key vocabulary on Thanksgiving

Description

Who wants to be a millionaire?

One host (= présentateur)Read the questionRead the answers (A…, B…, C…, D…)

One candidate Find the correct answer

Thanksgiving

Who?

When?

What?

Where?

Why?

Vocabulary Learn 3 new words per day minimum

Macy's Parade

Objective : listen and discover Macy's Parade

Description

Description

Grammar: find the subjects, verbs and time references

RECAP: Macy's Parade

New York City

Thanksgiving

the Minions

Spiderman

Felix the cat

was

was

were

weren't

were

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The story of Thanksgiving

Objective : listen and understand what is the story behind Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for...

Objective : explain what you are thankful for

Correction

wasn't at the parade

Was

at the parade

was

were at the parade

weren't at the parade

was at the parade

Was

at the parade

weren't at the parade

Were

at the parade

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were at the parade

Were

at the parade

weren't at the parade

were at the parade

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at the parade

Correction

weren't

were

were

was

was

were

wasn't

There were 10 giant balloons

There wasn't a giant balloon of Snoopy

There weren't tigers and elephants

There was a giant balloon of Mickey

PE : Practice

Write a postcard about your Thanksgiving in New York: where were you? what was there?

Dear mum and dad...

Description

What are you thankful for?

Description

Prepare your thankful tree

In the past

Objective : be able to talk in the past

Irregular verbs list

Highlight

Put the verbs in the past

PE : Practice

Explain the story of the first Thanksgiving in your own words

Living in the New World

Objective : be able to understand a text about the New World in group and explain it to the class

PE : Practice

Explain the story of the first Thanksgiving in your own words

Reading Read the text. Focus only on the words you know.

GW Read the text in groups and answer the questions

Call the teacher when you're finished

No thanks, no giving

Objective : understand the point of view of the Native Americans

Description

Listen to get the general meaning

Reading So what really happened?

RECAP: The real Thanksgiving

Feelings: resentful or thankful?

PE : Practice

Imagine one day in the life of a Pilgrim: his daily activities, his meeting with the Pilgrim Fathers...