感恩节英文课件.ppt

what is thanksgiving day? Thanksgiving Day is a very important traditional holiday in America. On the fourth Thursday of each November, families and friends gather together for the occasion to celebrate with a traditional turkey dinner, usually in the mid-afternoon. Thanksgiving Day originated as a celebration of the years harvest and is similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival in China. They worked on the land with much difficulty and were beset by a devastating plague in which half of the Pilgrim died in the long winter of 1620. In the spring of 1621，an Indian brave named Squanto and her Wampanoag tribe came to their help.The tribe taught the Pilgrims how to work the earth and plant corn，beans，pumpkins，squash and other crops. Gather around the TV and watch football food After Thanksgiving dinner, people sometimes do traditional games, such as pumpkin is a race to match up with a teaspoon of pumpkin run, the rules can not be touched by hand pumpkin, who won the first end. Spoon race with the smaller, more interesting game Say thanks to your teachers! Say thanks to the strangers! Say thanks to your family! Say thanks to your teachers! Say thanks to your friends! Say thanks to the strangers! Say thanks to everyone! and…… Say thanks to your family! Say thanks to your friends! 感恩节是一个很重要的美国传统节日。每年11月的第四个星期四，人们都会与家人、朋友欢聚一堂，下午3时左右吃传统的火鸡大餐。该节日最初主要是为了庆祝一年的丰收，与中国的中秋节有些相似。 Origin Of Thanksgiving Day On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower ship set sail from Plymouth, Devon, England, taking all the English Pilgrims to the New World. The English Pilgrims numbered about a hundred people, and left England to escape religious persecution. Mayflower [mei,flau?] 五月花号 → （英国清教徒首次去北美殖民地所乘之船名） 1620年9月6日，一批不堪忍受国内宗教迫害的英国清教徒乘坐“五月花”号从英格兰德文郡普利茅斯出发，开始了到美洲新大陆的航行。这批清教徒大约有100人。 The Pilgrims sailed sixty-six days, arrived in the New World in November of the same year. They first settled in a cornfield abandoned by Native Indians and named it Pl