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Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.
Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season.
Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since 1863. Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day. American Indian Heritage Day is also observed at this time of the year.
There are claims that the first Thanksgiving Day was held in the city of El Paso, Texas in 1598. Another early event was held in 1619 in the Virginia Colony. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration that the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast.
Здесь можно посмотреть интересные видео фрагменты об истории этого праздника: http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving
I'm Thankful - a Thanksgiving song for children
I'm Thankful - a Thanksgiving song for children
THANKSGIVING DAY KITCHEN PRAYER
THANKSGIVING DAY KITCHEN PRAYER
Lord, we thank You
for our food;
You’ve given boundless wealth.
You’ve blessed us
with our daily bread
And all that gives good health.
Welcome to
our humble home
And may each day we live
Be a celebration of
The blessing that You give.
Многие символы Дня благодарения пришли из того далекого года.
В те времена водилось много дичи, например, дикие индюшки (Turkey), которые и стали традиционным праздничным блюдом.
Индейцы научили переселенцев выращивать кукурузу, которая стала для них одним из основных продуктов.
Различные сорта тыквы (pumpkins, gourds) росли повсюду в изобилии.
Рог изобилия (cornucopia) – сосуд в форме рога или конуса, который наполняют овощами или фруктами.
На открытках, салфетках, скатертях можно встретить шляпы первых переселенцев (Pilgrim hats) и головные уборы индейцев (Indian headdresses).
“Mayflower” - это название корабля, на котором первые переселенцы пересекли Атлантический океан и прибыли в Америку.
Все эти символы можно использовать для украшения помещения, праздничного стола и приглашения для гостей. Например, украшение из кукурузы на столе или входной двери символизируют урожай и осень.
Американские дети в преддверии праздника со своими бабушками и дедушками поют традиционную песню, написанную в 1860 году Линдой Марией Чайлд.
Over the river, and through the woods,
To grandmothers’ house we go;
The horse knows the way,
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow.
Over the river, and through the woods -
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.
Предлагаю поиграть в игры, связанные с Днем благодарения:
CORNUCOPIA. The old "Fruit Basket" game with a Thanksgiving name.
CORNUCOPIA. The old "Fruit Basket" game with a Thanksgiving name.
The players sit on chairs forming a circle.
There should be one more player than there are chairs.
The player without a chair is the leader.
The leader points to each of the other players and gives them a name, such as "Squash," "Corn," "Apple," "Turkey," anything related to Thanksgiving.
After everyone is named, the leader calls out two of the names, "Corn and Apple".
Those two players must quickly switch places.
The leader continues calling like this (keeping up a brisk pace) until suddenly she says "The cornucopia has tipped over!"
Everyone, including the leader, then scrambles for a new place.
The one who ends up without a seat is the new leader.
The leader may give the same name to more than one person.
This makes the switching of places a little more confusing and a lot more exciting.
MENU MIX-UP
MENU MIX-UP
Каждому игроку или команде игроков дают список традиционных праздничных блюд, только все буквы в словах перемешаны, например, krutye (turkey). Задание – “расшифровать” эти слова за определенное время.
Примерное меню:Turkey - индейкаStuffing – начинка, которой обычно фаршируют индейкуCranberry sauce – клюквенный соус, который подают к индейкеGravy – подлива, соус, который подают к индейкеPotatoes - картофельCarrots - морковьSquash – вид тыквы или кабачок
Pumpkin pie – тыквенный пирог
Вы можете поздравить своих друзей в Америке
Вы можете поздравить своих друзей в Америке
At Thanksgiving,
the ties that bind reach across the miles and keep us close
How wonderful it is
to be able to feel close to you
even though you’re far away…
How wonderful it is
to have you here in thought,
in heart, and memory
at Thanksgiving
FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS on THANKSGIVING
THANKSGIVING is a special day –
It comes just once a year –
For thinking of God’s blessings
That bring us so much cheer.
And when we count our blessings
And the goodness that God sends,
We always think about you,
Our very special friends.
GOD’S BLESSINGS BE YOURS THIS THANKSGIVING
Игры с лексикой по теме: День благодарения:
Игры с лексикой по теме: День благодарения:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/online/search/thanks.htm
Russia’s Day of Knowledge 2015
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Learning is the light, ignorance the darkness
September 1st, is a truly celebration day in Russia, as it is the beginning the school year. We call it "Knowledge Day".
In towns and villages, well-dressed students arrive at school with a bunch of flowers. The celebration begins with solemn lines, in which children stand by classes. They are welcomed by the director of the school and the teachers. Senior students read poetry and perform songs and the first bell rings for the new comers. Older pupils drives younger ones by the hand to class, nicely encouraging them.
Live and learn
The roots of learning are bitter, but the fruit is sweet
In colleges, institutes and universities this day important too. Of course, nobody stands in rows, but a general meeting is arranged for the first-year students and they are given their student card. They are welcomed by teachers and students of older years.
Knowledge is a force
Who wishes to know a lot, then he needs to sleep little
Without torture there would be no sciences = adversity is a good teacher)
Repetition is the mother of learning
We wish you all good luck for your study!
Halloween games 2015
Halloween or Hallowe'en (/ˌhæləˈwiːn, -oʊˈiːn, ˌhɑːl-/; a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening") also known as All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It initiates the triduum of Hallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.
According to many academic scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain. Other academic scholars maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.
Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related "guising"), attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted house attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although in other locations, these solemn customs are less pronounced in favour of a more secularized celebration. Because many Western Christian denominations encourage, although no longer require, abstinence from meat on All Hallows' Eve, the tradition of eating certain vegetarian foods for this vigil daydeveloped, including the consumption of apples, colcannon, cider, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.
Haunted House
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/ru/node/1215
Ghost Hunt
Ghost Hunt
http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/halloween/games/ghosthunt/index2.php
Раскраска к Хеллоуину
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/ru/word-games/paint-it/magic-spell
Christmas games
Break-Out Christmas Greeting Game: Use the paddle to keep the ball bouncing until it breaks all the brick and reveals your Christmas greeting. You may lose the ball 5 times. (Java applet)
Christmas Stocking Memory Match Game : Find the matching stockings to reveal your Christmas card. (Java applet)
Christmas Gift Hunt: The puppy ran off with your Christmas present and buried it in the back yard! He also buried 10 ornaments with it. You have to dig and find your present without breaking any ornaments. (Java applet)
Christmas Sledding: Collect as many green trees as you can. Stay away from the red ones.
Christmas Greeting
From A Fairy To A Child
by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll author of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" and many other delightful stories wrote this poem about Christmas time:
Lady, dear, if Fairies may
For a moment lay aside
Cunning tricks and elfish play,
'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.
We have heard the children say -
Gentle children, whom we love -
Long ago on Christmas Day,
Came a message from above,
Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
They remember it again -
Echo still the joyful sound
"Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Yet the hearts must childlike be
Where such heavenly guests abide;
Unto children, in their glee,
All the year is Christmas-tide!
Thus, forgetting tricks and play
For a moment, Lady dear,
We would wish you, if we may,
Merry Christmas, Glad New Year!
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