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Thanksgiving Day

History of Thanksgiving

In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires. They found they had enough food to put away for the winter.
The Pilgrims had beaten the odds. They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.
The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued through the years. During the American Revolution (late 1770's) a day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom. By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.

Thankgiving Turkey

Of all the Thanksgiving symbols the Turkey has become the most well known. The wild turkey is native to northern Mexico and the eastern United States.
The turkey was originally domesticated in Mexico, and was brought into Europe early in the 16th century. Since that time, turkeys have been extensively raised because of the excellent quality of their meat and eggs. Some of the common breeds of turkey in the United States are the Bronze, Narragansett, White Holland, and Bourbon Red.

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History of Thanksgiving	1
The Thankgiving Turkey	1
Literature-something interesting to read.	2
Tower Bridge	2
Thanksgiving vocabulary	3
Thanksgiving recipes	3
Entertaiment	4

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Christmas

Literature-something interesting to read.

Daniel Defoe `Robinson Crusoe`.
Have you ever been alone for a long time?Could you live alone on an island for many years? Could you build yourself a house, learn to grow corn and make bread, learn to make your own clothes from animals skins?
Robinson Crusoe is bored with his quiet life at home in England. He decides to be a sailor, and to travel the seas of the world. He has many exciting adventures, and in 1659 he is in a ship sailing from Brazil to Africa . One day there is a terrible storm. The ship begins to break up, and soon Crusoe and his friends are fighting for their lives in an angry sea. All his friends die, but Crusoe lives and reaches land. He finds himself in a strange , wild country—alive, but alone on a small island, with no food , no boat, no way of escape.
He will be there for next twenty-seven years……….

Tower Bridge

It is a bridge in London, England.

Description

Tower Bridge is a bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It is occasionally incorrectly referred to as London Bridge, which is in fact the next bridge upstream. Although each bascule weighs over 1,000 tons, they are counterbalanced to minimise the force and time required to raise them, and they can be raised in under one minute. The original hydraulic raising mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in six accumulators. Water was pumped into the accumulators by steam engines. Although the bridge is raised today electrically, the original steam engines are preserved as a visitor attraction.

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Thanksgiving vocabulary

Flavors and tastes (smak i przyprawy)

General appearance and quality (wygląd i jakość)
This chips are terribly greasy, oily (tłusty). / This meat is over-cooked/overdone / (przegotowane)/ underdone (niedogotowane). / British cooking can be very stodgy / (ciężkostrawny). / These nuts are terribly / more-ish (apetyczny).

Why turkey?

The turkey tradition was really pushed by Benjamin Franklin, who wanted to make it the United States national symbol because it is a quick runner, wary, with sharp eyesight, and exhibited a regal stance, at least to Franklin. While the bald eagle nudged out the wild turkey for our official national symbol, Norman Rockwell has probably made the image of the family Thanksgiving turkey even more famous, and certainly more mouth watering.

Thankgiving recipes:

Ingredients:
4 turkey cutlets pepper, salt 1 teaspoon butter 1 big onion 0.1 l dry white wine 150 g gorgonzola cheese 100 g Cream fraiche 3 tablespoons green pepper 1 tablespoons parsley, fine chopped
Direction: Season steaks with pepper and salt and fry them very short on both sides. Put them in a heat resistant form. Chop onion in rings und fry them in butter until it is pale brown. Add small pieces of gorgonzola cheese. When is cheese is melted, add the other ingredients (without parsley). Cook all toward a creamy sauce. Spoon the sauce over the turkey steaks and bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes at 225 C.

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Test Your Knowledge of

Our team:
Daria, Auguścińska,
Natalia Lipska,
Monika Gut
Monika Gręźlik
Estera Gospodarczyk,
Andzelika Kopaczewska

Our teacher:
A.Wójcik

Have a good time with English!

English Explorers

1. What year did the Pilgrims have their first Thanksgiving Feast? 1619 1620 1621 1935
2. What food was probably NOT on the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving menu? Potatoes Corn Fish Dried Fruit
3. What president didn't like the idea of having a national Thanksgiving Day? Washington Nixon Truman Jefferson
4. Which president first established the date of Thanksgiving as a national celebration? Jefferson Adams Lincoln Wilson

A Little bit of humor!

Turkey Riddle
What did the turkey say before it was roasted?
Boy! I'm stuffed!
What's the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
The turKEY
Why did they let the turkey join the band?
Because he had the drumsticks
What happened to the Pilgrim who was shot at by an Indian?
He had an arrow escape
Why do turkeys always go, "gobble, gobble"?
Because they never learned good table manners!

sweet / bitter / sour / spicy	słodki / gorzki / kwaśny / pikantny	mild / salty / savoury / tasty	łagodny / słony / pikantny / smaczny