Thursday 24 November 2016

Thanksgiving vocabulary and exercises.

Dear students, 
Here you have an easy and quick exercise related to Thanksgiving vocabulary. Enjoy it : 
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/thanksgiving/beginners/picture-quiz.html

Now, a very easy reading about Thanksgiving :
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/thanksgiving/elementary-thanksgiving-reading.html 


And here you have the cloze test based on that reading :


Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word. There are some extra words :
a         airports           an       big                  Canada          Canadian                   cities       dinner        fourth      holiday     holidays     its        people     say       their          

Thanksgiving is a (1) ________________ and North American harvest festival and a family (2) _______________. In the USA, they celebrate it on the (3) _____________ Thursday in November, but (4) ____________ in Canada celebrate it on the second Monday in October. Thanksgiving is a (5) ________ family celebration and a Christian festival. Many non-Christians also like celebrating Thanksgiving. Roads and (6) _____________ get very busy that weekend. People travel all over the country to be with (7) __________ family on Thanksgiving. Many big ___________ (8) organize parades and other special events.
Christian families often (0) __say__ a prayer (called grace) before eating their Thanksgiving (9) ___________. Traditional Thanksgiving foods include turkey with stuffing and cranberry sauce, sweetcorn and sweet potatoes. (10) _______ incredibly good dessert called pumpkin pie is also eaten.

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