Презентация "Thanksgiving Day"
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- Thanksgiving Day
- This presentation is made by
- Svetlana Berdianova
- an English teacher
- Spassk secondary school №2
- 1620 one hundred Pilgrims came to America from England.
- They came on board the ship “Mayflower”.
- The Native Americans helped the Pilgrims.
- They taught them to plant corn,
- to build houses,
- to fish and to hunt.
- In the autumn of 1621 the Pilgrims had their first harvest. They decided to have a special dinner.
- The Pilgrims invited the Native Americans
- to their dinner.
- It lasted three days.
- Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday.
- The families come together for a special dinner.
- The traditional food on Thanksgiving Day is
- turkey, corn bread,
- mashed potatoes,
- pumpkin pies, beans, nuts
- and sauce made from cranberries.
- Football is the most popular game on the day.
- After dinner people relax,
- talk and watch a football game
- on TV.
- Shops, classrooms and homes
- are decorated
- with turkeys, Pilgrims, Indians, flowers and vegetables.
- Every Thanksgiving Day there is a very big parade
- in New York City.
- One of the traditions of this festival is to send greeting cards.
