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ThanksgivingDay

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“Give thanks as if you are living just to appreciate life. Live as if your life depends on love, kindness, gratitude, and thanksgiving.”

Thanksgiving Day

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1. What does 'Thanksgiving' mean?
2. What do you know about the holiday? Where is it celebrated?
3. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in your country? If not, is there any similar special day?
4. What food do people traditionally eat on Thanksgiving?
5. If you were at a Thanksgiving meal, what would you say you were thankful for?
6. Do you know anything about the origins of Thanksgiving?
7. What is the day after Thanksgiving called? What happens?
8. The first Thanksgiving was said to have happened in 1621 when Pilgrims who had arrived in the American colony shared a feast with Native Americans who had helped the Pilgrims through a difficult winter by giving them food. Do you think the European settlers and Native Americans really were friendly with each other in the American colonies?

thanksgiving discussion

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Verbs/Adjectives

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• thankful* (adjective) – describes a feeling of being pleased and relieved for something.
• grateful* (adjective) – describes a feeling of appreciation that one shows for something.
• blessed (adjective) – describes a feeling of fortune or good luck for something.

• to take [someone/something] for granted (verb) –to fail to appreciate the value of something.

• harvest – the process of collecting crops; the crops collected.
• gratitude – a display of thankfulness.
• parade – a public procession in honor of an event, person or to celebrate something:
• pilgrims – the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts (1620).

thanksgiving vocabulary

• grateful/thankful
• takes me for granted
• harvest
• blessed
• grateful/thankful
• gratitude

KEY ANSWER

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2. c
3. b
4. a
5. religious
6. autumn
7. 1777
8. civil war
9. 1863
10. A Thanksgiving Day game
11. 1924
12. Family

answer key

1. Student A reads texts A and B. Student B reads texts C and D. Try to memorize the details. 2. Tell your partner what you learned without looking back at the text. 3. Read your partner's texts. Did they miss any important information? 4. Look at the underlined words and phrases, and discuss their meaning in pairs.

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10. liquor11. venison12. float13. thus14.blessings15. bounty16. declare17. federal18. stuffing

1. pardon
2. say grace
3. charge with
4. centrepiece
5. cheer on
6. peel
7. televise
8. abundance
9. gratitude

EXTRA VOCABULARY KEY ANSWER

1. Which people do you think are thankful for you?
2. What are some things you take for granted?
3. Do you think people take you for granted? Who do you take for granted?
4. Do you always say thank you? Do people always thank you for what you have done for them? How does this make you feel?
5. Are there any well-known people you are grateful to?
6. Which lessons in life are you most thankful to have received?
7. What were you thankful for this week?
8. Why should we show gratitude for things?

questions for reflection

Try to be creative giving thanks for everything

I Am Thankful For... By Nancie J. Carmody

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Thank you!