Thanksgiving+topic

In this unit you will learn: ** Lesson 1: Thanksgiving ** Use the following link to find out the origins of Thanksgiving and how it started. [] (a) The whole class will __Read__ the Thanksgiving story on PowerPoint. Then we will watch and __listen__ to the story once more. After they listen to the story they are required to answer a worksheet and fill in the gaps. (b) Discuss __vocabulary__, elicit from students: [] , Discuss the vocabulary with the students and illustrate any questions they may have. Then I will give them a word search worksheet to find and circle the words they have been taught. The reason I have decided to do this is because, the longer they are exposed to the words, the greater the chance to be stored in their long term memory. [] (c) Pair __speaking__ task: After the students have read the story and became familiar with the specific vocabulary they are suppose to visit the following page []. Students are going to get into two groups and the group that will score the most points will be the winner. Homework: (d) Grammar Hunt activity Since, I personally don’t like to bore students in class with grammar; I have decided to    give them a grammar activity for home. The students have to go through the PowerPoint and begin looking for an example of each element in the chart; such as common nouns, adjectives and so on. Then they have to write each example in its appropriate box. Furthermore, grammatical functions that we have not covered yet will be omitted.
 * Thanksgiving **
 * Aims **
 * 1)  About the history of the Thanksgiving Holiday
 * 2)  The differences between the initial Thanksgiving and the contemporary one.
 * 3)  You will learn from whom and where is it celebrated
 * 4)  You will learn the most common words used for the period of the Thanksgiving feast.