To my students
LET'S TALK
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
THERE IS ANOTHER HOLIDAY COMING... LET'S LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT IT:
Text from the book Seasons and Celebrations - Jackie Maguire - OXFORD
Text from the book Seasons and Celebrations - Jackie Maguire - OXFORD
Thanksgiving
Most fruit and vegetables grow through the summer
and are ready to bring in when autumn comes. This time is called the harvest.
After the harvest, many people want to say thank you to God for all the food. There
are church services called Harvest Festivals or Thanksgiving Services. There
are lots of fruit, vegetables, flowers and loaves of bread in the church, and
people sing special songs of thanks. These services started hundreds of years
ago.
In September 1620, a group of English people
called the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth, England across the Atlantic
Ocean, in a ship called The Mayflower, to Cape Cod in North America. They went
away from England because of their religion and because they wanted land for
their families. They wanted to grow food for themselves – not for other people.
The Pilgrims sailed – for sixty-six dangerous
days – across the Atlantic Ocean. When they arrived, they called their new home
New England, but they were not the first people to live there. The Indians were
there first. Sometimes the Pilgrims fought with the Indians but they also
learned a lot from them. The Indians showed them how to live from their new
land, for example, and how to grow and cook new kinds of fruit and vegetables.
The first winter was difficult. Many of the Pilgrims
died because it was very cold and they had little food. In the spring they
started to grow food, helped by some friendly Indians, and in the autumn of 1621 they celebrated their first harvest.
The Pilgrims wanted to give thanks, not only
for the harvest, but for their new home, new life and new friends.
The date of Thanksgiving Day in the USA has
changed three times, but it’s now the fourth Thursday in November. Most
American and Canadian families still have a Thanksgiving Day dinner with their
family. They have turkey and autumn vegetables, and then pumpkin pie.
In the USA, there are a lot of big football
matches on that day, so many people go to the games or watch them on
television.
Canada is north of the USA, so the winter is
longer and the harvest is earlier there. The date of Thanksgiving Day has
changed more than once, but is now the second Monday in October. In Canada
there is a Thanksgiving Day holiday and the traditional dinner is turkey and
pumpkin pie – like in the USA.
Friday, November 02, 2012
HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES
Hello Guys,
Well... this week we could celebrate Halloween (Oct 31st) with delicious cupcakes. Some people are asking me to tell them who prepared those amazing pieces of chocolate cake, so I'd like to post the person's contact here. He prepares different and personalized kinds of food!
His name is LeƓnidas, a great friend I have the pleasure of having as a student too!
e-mail: contatodocerei@gmail.com
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