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Read, watch and answer the questions:
1. What was the name of the ship? 2. Who were the Puritans?3. What did the Pilgrims sail from England for?4. How long did it take them to cross the Atlantic Ocean?5.What did the Native Indians teach the Pilgrims? 6. Why did the Pilgrims invite their Indian friends for the feast? 7. When was the first Thanksgiving Day celebrated?8. When do the people celebrate this holiday nowadays?9. What is the traditional food of Thanksgiving Day?10. Why is the turkey a symbol of Thanksgiving Day?
Even if people live far away from home, the family members gather at the house
of an older relative.
In the year 1620, a ship named the Mayflower brought 102 English men, women
and children to the rocky coast of what is now Massachusetts.
It took them a month or two to cross the ocean as there were no engines on the ship – only sails and the
wind.
The ship's passengers were Puritans—members of a religious sect which was unpopular in Britain
because its members wanted to reform the Church of England.
These Pilgrims came to a place inhabited by the American Indians who began settling
there about 25,000 years ago.
The winter was cold, and about half of the Pilgrims died. In the spring the Indians
taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, hunt, and fish.
They cooked dinner of turkey, corn, beans, and pumpkins and invited their Indians
friends to share their feast.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the USA,
proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.It is still celebrated on the
fourth Thursday of November.
Today, families gather together, usually in a home but sometimes in a restaurant,
for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Stores, classrooms, and homes are decorated with turkeys, pilgrims, Indians, flowers, and
vegetables.
Thanksgiving in America
is not only giving thanks to God,
one’s country and family members and eating too
much,
This is a day on which Charitable organizations and churches provide food or serve dinners for the poor.
They also send baskets of food to the elderly and sick.
There is one more tradition for that day. President pardons a turkey for
Thanksgiving. A lucky turkey is set free and later sent
to a petting zoo.
Answer the questions:
1. What was the name of the ship? 2. Who were the Puritans?3. What did the Pilgrims sail from England for?4. How long did it take them to cross the Atlantic Ocean?5.What did the Native Indians teach the Pilgrims? 6. Why did the Pilgrims invite their Indian friends for the feast? 7. When was the first Thanksgiving Day celebrated?8. When do the people celebrate this holiday nowadays?9. What is the traditional food of Thanksgiving Day?10. Why is the turkey a symbol of Thanksgiving Day?