ThDayElemTn, English
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FESTIVAL WORKSHEETS
Thanksgiving Day
Elementary+
Teacher’s Notes
Tasks
:
to choose words describing the pictures
to complete a text about Thanksgiving Day
to find which picture is not related to the holiday
You will find many facts about
Thanksgiving Day and other American
issues in this book:
to match definitions with words
Preparation:
make copies of
Worksheets A
and
Worksheets B
for your
students (for each pair you need a set of worksheets A+B)
Skills:
speaking, reading
Language
:
vocabulary (words which similar pronunciation/meaning)
questions and question words
simple dictionary definitions
Sources
:
M. Broukal and P. Murphy,
All about the USA.
M. Broukal and P. Murphy:
All about the USA
[Task
adapted from pages 17-18]
Task 1 – lead-in (vocabulary, speaking)
■ Introduce the topic of the lesson Î Thanksgiving Day Î and find out what your Ss know about it. DonÓt expect too
many facts or do not reveal too much at this stage. You may let your Ss express some facts in Polish, as they may
have heard something about Thanksgiving on TV.
■ Give your Ss copies of the worksheet (make sure that you have an equal number of Students A and Students B).
■ Explain that most of the pictures on the left are related to the holiday. Ask them to look at the pairs of words under
each picture and choose the ones which describe them. Check the answers with the group.
■ There is an extension task in the
Notes & Comments
section on the next page.
Key
!
Key
Correct words [in the order as they appear on the worksheets]:
■ turkey
■ ship
■ corn
■ bells
■ cranberries
■ pumpkin
■ deer
Task 2 – information gap activity (speaking, reading)
■ Ask your Ss to look at Task
. Explain that some parts of the text are missing and their task will be to complete it.
Ask them to read the text first. Then, each S has to write three questions, using the questions words in the boxes on
the right. When Ss have completed the questions, ask each S to work with a partner with the
same
worksheet (i.e.
A+A, B+B) in order to compare the questions. Solve any problems your Ss may have with forming correct
questions. You should help individual pairs rather than check the answers with all your Ss, otherwise this activity
will become pointless.
■ Then, ask Ss to work with new partners, this time with a student who has a
different
worksheet (i.e. A+B). Explain
that to complete the text they need to ask and answer the questions they have just written down. Give them some
time to complete the task. Finally, let them compare the worksheets. Solve any vocabulary questions and ask some
comprehension questions if necessary.
StudentÓs A questions
StudentÓs B questions
a) What do almost all families eat for this meal?
b) What do almost all families have for dessert?
Key
!
Key
c) When did the Pilgrims make a difficult trip across
the ocean from England?
d) How much food did the Pilgrim have?
e) Why did they have a feast?
f) When did President Lincoln declare Thanksgiving a
holiday?
Answers to these questions are given on the worksheets.
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Task 3 (reading)
■ Ask the Ss to read the text again in order to find some words and/or phrases which are related to the pictures on the
left. Ss should be able to find phrases related to
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pictures, as one of them is not related to Thanksgiving Day.
■ Give them a few minutes to complete the task. You may ask them to work on their own and then compare their
answers with a partner, or ask them to start working in pairs and then, compare their answers in groups of four.
■ Finally, check the answers with your group.
UNNECESSARY PICTURE:
BELLS
(
this symbols is usually used for Christmas
)
Key
!
Key
Words and phrases (paragraphs given in the brackets):
■ turkeyÎ
almost all families eat turkey
(1)
■ shipÎ
made a difficult trip across the ocean from England
(2)
■ cornÎ
Native Americans of Massachusetts taught the Pilgrims to plant corn
(3)
■ cranberriesÎ
almost all families eat […] cranberry sauce
(1)
■ pumpkinÎ
almost all families […] have pumpkin pie for dessert
(1)
■ deerÎ
historians think that the Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey
(5)
Task 4 (vocabulary, reading)
■ In this task, your Ss have to have a closer look at the text again in order to find words which match the definitions
on the handout.
■ Give them a few minutes to complete the task and check the answers.
Key
!
Key
a. Thursday
b. dessert
c. difficult
d. NewWorld
e. winter
f. disease
g. fish
h. president
i. historians
j. deer
Notes & Comments
■ If you have plenty of time, you can have an extension activity to Task
. You can either:
ask the Ss to write some simple sentences using the words which do not describe the pictures, e.g.
Omar is from
Turkey
or
I have never been to
Turkey
, according to your SsÓ abilities and level. Or:
prepare a set of 7 sentences on your own. You can write the sentences on the board or photocopy them for each
student. Use gaps instead of the key-words. Ask your Ss to complete the sentences.
■ InTask
, before you ask the Ss to study the text again, you may encourage your Ss to guess the words. Once you
have checked the answers together, ask them how many words they have managed to guess.
Homework
■ [VOCABULARY] Adapt the extension activity in the
Notes & Comments
section for homework. You may
encourage Ss to think of other pairs of words which sound-a-like and write pairs of sentences with them. Even
elementary students should know some, e.g.
bird
and
beard
,
swing
and
wing
,
wing
and
wind
,
write
and
right
,
doll
and
ball
.
■ [WRITING] Ask your Ss to write a short text (5-8 sentences) about Thanksgiving Day. For example,
On the Fourth Thursday in November, American families celebrate Thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving
took place in 1621. The Pilgrim Fathers celebrated it because they were thankful. They celebrated it with
Native Americans. Nowadays, people usually eat a traditional meal on Thanksgiving Day. They eat
turkey and cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie for dessert.
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