感恩节介绍Thanksgiving Day.ppt

Famliy get-together On thanksgiving people will have 2 days off and they will have a family get-together to celebrate thanksgiving with a delicious dinner. It is much like Chinese spring festival. Food roast turkey pumpkin pie cranberry sauce corn bread sweet potato apples grapes Black Friday Black friday is the day after thanksgiving.There are annual big sales in most shops. People get up very early to buy things at lower prices. Christmas shopping season begins on Black Friday, people begin to buy goods for Christmas. Inspiration * * * 山东旅游职业学院 旅游外语系：李海涛 Thanksgiving Day 1. Origin 2. Food 3. Celebrations Thanksgiving falls on the last Thursday of November. It became a holiday almost 400 years ago, in 1621. The holiday originated in Massachusetts when the pilgrims（朝圣者） arrived in May Flower and settled there in 1620. For the first winter half of the pilgrims died of hunger and cold. It was the local Indians who helped them by giving them food, teaching them how to hunt, fish and grow corns and pumpkins. The following autumn, the pilgrims had a good harvest. To celebrate the harvest and thank God, they held a feast and invited the local Indians for their help. Origin American president will forgive a turkey in the white house before Thanksgiving. 在感恩节前，美国总统将在白宫前赦免火鸡。 Thanksgiving parade 感恩节游行 Celebrations We shoud thank our parents, friends, teachers and everyone around us. Thank you for your company! Happy Thanksgiving * *