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3rd conditional – Tim's Free English Lesson Plans

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Lindsey : Thanksgiving, a family tradition

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Résultats de la recherche - Audio Lingua - mp3 en anglais, allemand, arabe, catalan, corse, espagnol, italien, russe, occitan, portugais, chinois et français

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Angela : my typical Thanksgiving Podcast

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Angela : my typical Thanksgiving Podcast

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Sing along Task

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What's the Project? This Thanksgiving Bingo game is the perfect way to entertain the kids while the turkey cooks or it's great for a Thanksgiving party!
There's something special about Thanksgiving morning isn't there? The warm, wonderful smell of turkey cooking, the parade on the TV and the anticipation of all that lies ahead, from the dinner to the holiday season beyond.

The whole Thanksgiving weekend is one of my favorite times of the year and I love the idea of having my family gathered around doing fun things together like playing games or doing puzzles. This free printable Thanksgiving Bingo game is also a tradition in our family. Fun to play while the turkey cooks or at a Thanksgiving party!

I've got Bingo games for all of the holidays, so while you are at it, grab your Christmas Bingo or the ever popular Halloween Bingo game.

Free Printable Thanksgiving Bingo Cards:

I've made this as simple for you as I could. All you need to do is print a PDF and cut out the little drawing cards and you will be all ready to play!

Print the Cards Here: Free Printable Thanksgiving Bingo Boards

Turkeys, Pilgrims, corn, and scarecrows. It's all kinds of Thanksgiving fun on these Thanksgiving Bingo cards for the kids.

Here's what the cards look like. There are 8 different cards available.

All you need to do is open this PDF file: Free Printable Thanksgiving Bingo Boards and print it either at home or at a copy store. The first page has the cards you can draw from and then the other pages have the boards.

If you don't know how to play, here's a quick rundown.

Cut out the cards on the last page. Place them all in a bowl. One person draws the cards one at a time and shows each card to the players. Players put some kind of marker on the picture on their bingo card (something like a marshmallow or chocolate chip works great). When someone gets 5 in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally, they win! Easy!

Have fun playing with the kids. And I hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving! (It's really one of my very favorite days of the year.)
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Free Printable Thanksgiving Bingo Game - Crazy Little Projects

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What's the Project? This Thanksgiving Bingo game is the perfect way to entertain the kids while the turkey cooks or it's great for a Thanksgiving party! There's something special about Thanksgiving morning isn't there? The warm, wonderful smell of turkey cooking, the parade on the TV and the anticipation of all that lies ahead, from the dinner to the holiday season beyond.

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Thanksgiving is a holiday where families and friends come together to share a meal. Sometimes others are invited to the meal as well, including military service persons and international students. Invite your class to a faux meal in the classroom with this simple activity.

Ask students to share with the class their perfect meal. It can be any kind of food either from their home culture or host culture or neither. They will create their perfect plate by writing the names of the foods and ingredients on an actual paper plate.

If you can, bring several food magazines into class so students can cut pictures from them and paste them on to a paper plate. If you don’t have any magazines they can use, just have students draw pictures on the plate. Or both! Then have students share with the class what foods they put on their plate and why.

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What are you thankful for?
1. What Are You Thankful for?

Thanksgiving, as the name implies, is a time to give thanks for the things and people in our lives we appreciate. Many families take a moment to share what they’re thankful for around the table on the actual holiday.

You can give your students a chance to talk about the things they’re thankful for with one or more classmates in a free discussion.

After students have talked, invite any volunteers to share their thoughts with the class. You could go around the classroom one by one, since we’ll often go around the dinner table this way at Thanksgiving and give everyone the opportunity to share with the whole family. You might also have students write a paragraph or draw a picture about the people or things for which they are thankful.

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Turkeys

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A look at America's fourth most popular meat. Transcript of radio broadcast:

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

American turkey producers will raise close to two hundred seventy million of the big birds this year. That is the estimate of the National Turkey Federation, an industry group. Tens of millions will be the traditional star of Thanksgiving holiday meals this Thursday and next month at Christmas.

Americans eat more turkey throughout the year, and more of it in general, than in the past. The federation says people ate an average of seven and one-half kilograms of turkey last year. But they ate three times as much pork, four times as much beef and five times as much chicken.

Lamb was a distant fifth in popularity behind turkey.

Turkeys produced more than three thousand million dollars in farm earnings last year. The five top producing states were Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia and Missouri. The top five export markets for turkey meat from the United States were Mexico, China, Canada, Russia and Taiwan.

Turkey is sold many ways -- frozen, fresh, whole, cut into parts, ground up like hamburger, thinly sliced, roasted, fried, smoked. People eat it in sandwiches, in soups, in salads, in sausages and more. But at Thanksgiving people generally buy a whole bird -- in some cases, all prepared and ready to serve.

Modern turkeys are designed for industrial production and for a market where white meat is more popular than dark. The federation says a turkey usually has about seventy percent white meat.

Turkey hens lay eighty to one hundred eggs in a season. Producers use artificial insemination to fertilize the eggs. The turkeys grow quickly. In fourteen weeks, a hen weighs seven kilograms and is ready for market. Males take eighteen weeks to reach fourteen kilograms.

Most turkeys are raised what is known as the conventional way. But some higher-priced birds are raised outdoors, without antibiotic drugs and with a diet of feed grown without chemicals.

Some small farms raise what are called heritage turkeys. These native birds are smaller and take longer to grow. But they mate naturally and have more of a balance of dark and white meat. Heritage turkeys have a stronger taste that some people like.

But turkeys are sold by weight, and people often buy big ones for the holidays. So price may be the biggest consideration of all.

And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. You can learn more about Thanksgiving at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Shep O'Neal.

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At Thanksgiving, Turkeys Fly Out of Stores

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A look at America's fourth most popular meat. Transcript of radio broadcast: This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American turkey producers will raise close to two hundred seventy million of the big birds this year. That is the estimate of the National Turkey Federation, an industry group.

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What not to do during the Thanksgiving dinner

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Have you ever wondered why Americans gather around the table each year and prepare to eat food regarded as traditional, but rarely assembled as a meal the rest of the year? Turkey, gravy, corn, stuffing, cranberries and pies take center stage on Thanksgiving.

But Thanksgiving also stands out from other American holidays in the sense that it isn't tied to any specific religion, and you can pretty much celebrate it however you want. The only essential traditions are to enjoy a meal with friends or family and to give thanks for what you have. In the pantheon of holidays, Thanksgiving is about as simple as it gets.

The holiday also honors American history, of course. In countless Thanksgiving plays, American children have told the story of the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrims and the American Indians celebrated the autumn harvest in cooperation and acceptance.

Have you ever wondered where the particulars of this story and the other details of Thanksgiving actually come from? In this article, we'll look at the origins, traditions and history of Thanksgiving, as well as how turkeys came to symbolize the holiday. We'll also examine how other cultures celebrate Thanksgiving.

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­Have you ever wondered why Americans gather around the table each year and prepare to eat food regarded as traditional, but rarely assembled as a meal the rest of the year? Turkey, gravy, corn, stuffing, cranberries and pies take center stage on Thanksgiving.

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Freedom from want by Norman Rockwell
Describe what you see

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The traditional Thanksgiving menu in the United States generally consists of a few staple items and then variations of dishes, depending on the family traditions that are observed. You can usually count on turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce and couple of vegetable casseroles of some kind. Desserts are also a part of the meal, with pumpkin pie making its rounds on many dinner tables. You'd think that a traditional meal with all the trimmings would be one of the more expensive home-cooked meals, but you'd be surprised at how little a Thanksgiving meal can cost per person.

Ingredient Costs

The turkey is always the biggest expense of a Thanksgiving meal. The price of the turkey depends on the overall economy because of fluctuating costs like feed and fuel. When gas is up and the economy is down, you'll pay a bit more for your bird. In 2007, a 16-pound (7.2-kilogram) turkey averaged $17.63, but jumped to $19.09 in 2008 [source: Sherman]. That's about $1.20 per pound on average for 2008. If you're feeding a large group and you want some leftovers for soup and sandwiches, you may end up spending as much as $35 for your turkey alone. The good news is that the other staples are pretty inexpensive. Potatoes for mashing and vegetables for your casseroles are all very inexpensive, and casseroles are a great way to feed a lot of people for little money. The same goes for cranberry sauce.

Savings

Save some money by buying some of your items frozen, like cranberries or green beans. Turkeys are also cheaper frozen than fresh. You should also keep an eye out for ingredients that are on sale. Most grocery stores have a section dedicated to Thanksgiving with many of the items you need at a reduced price. Like with any food, look for store brands to replace the more expensive brand name counterparts. Many times these are the exact same item from the same company, but in different packaging.

Average

Each year after Thanksgiving, there are companies that conduct surveys in the United States to determine the costs of the average meal. They generally figure the costs for a meal that feeds 10 people, and the menu includes turkey and the trimmings -- peas, potatoes, pumpkin pie, stuffing, cranberries, rolls, and staple items like butter and milk. They also don't factor in any leftover food. The American Farm Bureau Association found that the average cost of a Thanksgiving meal in 2008 for 10 people was $44.61, about $4.50 per person [source: Sherman]. Of course, this is an average, so spending on fresh ingredients, organics, extra food for leftovers and additional items like alcohol can make your meal significantly more expensive. It all depends on your tastes and traditions.

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What's the average cost of a Thanksgiving meal?

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The traditional Thanksgiving menu in the United States generally consists of a few staple items and then variations of dishes, depending on the family traditions that are observed. You can usually count on turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce and couple of vegetable casseroles of some kind.

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Some facts about turkeys

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The most significant symbols of Thanksgiving are the foods Americans eat for Thanksgiving dinner. On a broad level, these foods celebrate traditional agriculture life. Most of the traditional Thanksgiving dishes are fairly simple foods that are native to North America.

Most Americans associate Thanksgiving with turkey. This connection goes back to the prevalence of wild turkey in the New World. At the time of the first Thanksgiving, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford commented on "the great store of wild turkeys" -- even though it's thought that venison and fish were the center of the celebration [source: Bergland]. Turkey is such an important part of Thanksgiving that more than 90 percent of Americans eat it on Thanksgiving [source: Scripps Howard News Service].

After turkey, the most significant dish on the table is corn. This abundant crop was an important staple to the Pilgrims, and, with the help of the American Indians, was cultivated to help ensure that there would be enough food for the winter.

Cranberries were probably on the first Thanksgiving table. The American Indians taught the Pilgrims to make a cranberry sauce called "ibimi," which means "bitter berry." When the colonists saw the berry, they renamed it "crane-berry," because its flowers resembled the long-necked bird called the crane [source: U.S. Department of State].

In the next section, we'll look at modern traditions like parades, pardons and football.

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­The m­ost significant symbols of Thanksgiving are the foods Americans eat for Thanksgiving dinner. On a broad level, these foods celebrate traditional agriculture life. Most of the traditional Thanksgiving dishes are fairly simple foods that are native to North America. ­Most Americans associate Thanksgiving with turkey.