Thanksgiving Mean solar day, Fourth dimension to Express Your Thank you

 Thanksgiving Day Reading Comprehension       Level A2/B1

Thanksgiving Solar day comes on the 4th Thursday in November.  It is a legal holiday celebrated throughout the United States.  People of all faiths celebrate this solar day.  They thank for the many good things in their lives.

This is a family vacation. Families come together from nearly and far. In some places special religious services are held in the morning. So comes the traditional feast.  Turkey with stuffing is the master dish. It is served with sweet potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.  Apple tree cider is the drink of the day.  Football game is the most popular game on this twenty-four hour period.  For many schools, the Thanksgiving Day game is the about important one of the twelvemonth. Normally there are several football games to sentinel on Television set.

Macy'southward department shop holds its annual Thanksgiving 24-hour interval Parade in New York City.  Celebrities, floats, bands, and balloons shaped like famous story book and drawing characters appear in the parade. Santa Claus arrives at the stop.  His coming marks the beginning of   Christmas flavour.

Stores, classrooms, and homes are busy with turkeys, pilgrims, Indians, wreaths of dried flowers, and vegetables.  Horns of plenty are besides very popular. Charitable organizations serve dinners to needy people.  They also send baskets of nutrient to the elderly and ill.

Background

The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by the Pilgrims on 1621.  They came from England for religious freedom.  They sailed from   Plymouth, England, on September 16, 1620.  Their send was called  the Mayflower.  They landed at Plymouth Rock, in Massachusetts, on December 26, 1620.

The beginning wintertime was a terrible time.  There was much sickness and   starvation.  Native Indians taught the Pilgrims how to found, to   fish, to hunt and how to survive in America.  The crops did well, and in the fall of 1621 the Pilgrims had a great harvest.  They were very thankful and decided to celebrate with a banquet.  The Pilgrims invited their Indian friends to share this Thanksgiving banquet. Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national twenty-four hour period of observance by Congress in 1941.

Fascinating  Facts

Thanksgiving is now celebrated as a legal holiday on the quaternary  Th of November in the United States.  It is time to express  1'due south cheers for good fortune throughout the year.  The beginning Thanksgiving Day in the U.s.a. is idea to have  been held on August 9,1607, by colonists of the Popham Colony,  which is now Phippsburg, Maine.  The first large Thanksgiving  celebration, however, is said to accept taken place in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  The Pilgrims and Indians feasted for  three days to gloat their rich harvest after suffering a severe  winter following the Pilgrims' long, harsh journey to America.

In 1789, George Washington proclaimed November 26 as Thanksgiving  in honor of the adoption of the Us Constitution.  Through the efforts of Sara Josepha Hale, the editor of Ladies' Magazine in Boston, Thanksgiving became a national holiday observed on the same day every year.  She proposed the fourth Thursday of November considering November 26, the solar day George Washington had  originally selected, had been the quaternary Thursday.

In 1941,  President Franklin D.  Roosevelt proclaimed the fourth Th as Thanksgiving 24-hour interval in all u.s.a. and U.Due south.  possessions.

Thanksgiving Twenty-four hours is associated with certain symbols and foods.  Turkey is role of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, since it is believed that the Pilgrims and Native Americans had turkey at their   feast.

Cranberries are also part of Thanksgiving dinner, probably  because the Pilgrims had cranberries, which they establish in bogs  effectually Plymouth.  The "cranberry", every bit it was called, was used for  dye, as well equally for food.

The horn of enough, or the cornucopia, is a familiar Thanksgiving  symbol. It is a symbol of Globe's compensation, and reminds us how much of our food comes from the globe.

Indian corn is used as a ornamentation.  The American Indians taught  the Pilgrims how to plant corn, which the pilgrims used to survive   their first winter.  To go on hostile tribes from knowing how many  Pilgrims had died, the Pilgrims planted corn over graves.

Today, Thanksgiving is the unofficial starting time of the Christmas  season, and in many cities and communities, Thanksgiving marks the inflow of Santa Claus.  Gimbel Brothers started this tradition with a parade of toys in Philadelphia in 1920.  The famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City is office of the traditional celebration.  It is viewed on television by millions of  people each yr.

Thanksgiving Day Reading Comprehension

Match words or phrases with similar significant.

  1. annual
  2. elderly
  3. feast
  4. harvest
  5. observance
  6. faiths
  7. starvation
  8. stuffing
  9. survive
  10. wreath

a. to stay alive

b. a big meal, a banquet

c. religions

d. circular system of flowers

east. hunger

f. happening every year

g. putting nutrient inside meat or vegetables

h. people of old historic period

i. the drove of crops (fruits, vegetables)

j. the celebration of a holiday

Underline the word that does non vest.

  1. flowers      arrangement      wreath      food
  2. hunger      starvation      need      abundance
  3. annual      yearly      weekly      every 12 months
  4. immature      mature      old      elderly
  5. harvest      collection      planting      gathering crops
  6. commemoration      observance      forgetting      ceremony
  7. religions      games      faiths      beliefs
  8. alive      survive      die      be
  9. feast      feast      starvation      meal
  10. stuffing      food      filling      reading

Underline the word that best completes the judgement.

  1. On Thanksgiving some organizations prepare food for the needy and the (stores, faiths, elderly).
  2. It is traditional to brand turkey with (wreaths, feasts, stuffing) on Thanksgiving.
  3. People of all (survive, faiths harvest) gloat this holiday.
  4. The Pilgrims organized a (feast. wreath, religion) to gloat that they were alive.
  5. Thanksgiving is an (annual, observance, elderly) holiday historic by people of all faiths.
  6. After the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to found, they had a good (survival, harvest, wreath).
  7. Congress decided to take a day of (annual, survival, observance) for Thanksgiving in 1941.
  8. The first year that the Pilgrims were in America many died of (starvation, stuffing, harvest).
  9. Thank you to the Indians, the Pilgrims learned to (feast, annual, survive).
  10. It is traditional to decorate stores and homes with turkeys, Pilgrims, and (wreaths, stuffing, elderly) of stale flowers and plants.

Complete each sentence.

  1. The winter in New York can be besides cold for old people. It tin be too common cold for the ____________.
  2. People can dice if they do not eat food for a long time. They can die of ____________.
  3. Some people like to prepare tomatoes with tuna and mayonnaise inside them. They like ____________ in the tomatoes.
  4. The flower store sent a large circle fabricated out of flowers, leaves and a ribbon. They sent a ____________.
  5. The people who got lost in the mountains stayed live for ten days without nutrient. They ____________ for ten days.
  6. Birthdays are celebrated every year. A birthday is an ____________ celebration.
  7. Many people piece of work on farms to collect fruits and vegetables. They come for the ____________.
  8. The quaternary of July is the day to celebrate the independence of the UsaA. The ____________ of Independence is on July fourth.
  9. The family had a big meal to celebrate their reunion. They had a ____________.
  10. You can find people from many different religions in the Usa. The United States has people of many ____________ .

Ask questions about the sentences below.

People of all faiths celebrate Thanksgiving in November.

  1. Who _______________________________________________________________________
  2. When ______________________________________________________________________
  3. What ______________________________________________________________________

The virtually famous Thanksgiving event in New York Urban center is the Thanksgiving Day Parade. At the end of the parade Santa Claus arrives. People watching the parade feel excited and happy.

  1. What______________________________________________________________________
  2. When______________________________________________________________________
  3. Who  ______________________________________________________________________
  4. How  ______________________________________________________________________
  5. Which Thanksgiving event ________________________________________________________

Charitable organizations send food to the needy and elderly.

  1. What kind ___________________________________________________________________
  2. What ______________________________________________________________________
  3. To whom ___________________________________________________________________

Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national day of observance past Congress in 1941.

  1. What______________________________________________________________________
  2. When _____________________________________________________________________
  3. Past whom ___________________________________________________________________
  4. Which holiday _______________________________________________________________

Make full in the blanks with words:

national        celebrated         proclaimed       editor         mag             support           land        centuries       vacation            campaign        governors        parts         articles          Thursday

                Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims (ane)_____________ the start Thanksgiving in 1621.  For over two (ii) _____________ days of Thanksgiving were held at diverse times in different (3) _____________ of the (4) _____________ . In 1827, Sara Josepha Hale, (v) _____________  of a popular ladies' (6) _____________, began a (7) _____________ to have Thanksgiving Mean solar day celebrated equally a national (8) _____________ . For many years, she wrote (9) _____________ for the magazine and sent letters to the President, (10) _____________, and other important people. She finally won the (11) _____________ of President Abraham Lincoln.  In 1863, he (12) _____________ that the last (xiii) _____________ in November should exist observed as a (14) _____________ day of Thanksgiving.