Фрагмент к видеоуроку по английскому языку День Благодарения для 8 — 10 классов 
Фрагмент к видеоуроку                      THANKSGIVING   HISTORY
https://yandex.ru/video/search?filmId=VmeTUP-WUXI&text=учебное видео 
1. Pre – Watching:
  1. Read the list of the words. Do you know any English words or expressions with the same or similar meaning?
      a fall                                       a colonist            to land
      a cargo ship                            a separatist
      a portion                                  harsh
   2. Try to explain the meaning of the words written with the capital letters 
       the Pilgrims                                       the Wampanoag people
       the Church of England                      Plymouth
       the Mayflower                                    the Congress
    3. Read, translate, copy and learn the new words
       much farther north                                                to survive
       these unfortunate circumstances                          to collect harvest  
       a particularly harsh winter                                   geese
       to approach                                                          fowl
       to grow crops on sandy lands                              squash
       to make for                                                           feast
       a mighty chief                                                       to donate
       a deer – deer                                            to use fish as fertilizer
2. While watching:
      Episode 1 :          Who were the passengers of the ship?
                                   Why did they leave their native country?
      Episode 2         What happened to the Pilgrims during the first winter in the          New World? Why?
    
  Episode 3         Why did the luck of Plymouth colony begin to change?
  
   Episode 4           How did the colonists survive?  Who helped them?
  
   Episodе 5          What happened in the years  1920?  1924?  1941?  
3. After Watching:
      Use the verbs in the right form:
   1. Some of these people were separatists, people who (separate) themselves
from the Church of England.
    2. The Mayflower arrived in the New World in December 1620, weeks later than they originally (hope).
     3. They landed much farther north than they (plan).
     4. It was a common festival like they (have) in England.
4.Answer the questions:
       1. What new things have your learnt from the film?
        2. What other things about the history and traditions  of the USA  would you like to learn?
            How can you learn them?
5. State one of the problems touched in the film. Develop it. Draw the fish bone. Find the   reasons for some events in the text and their consequences.
 - One of the problems is how the tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving Day was brought to America.
6. Write a cinquain for the holiday of Thanksgiving
         1. Thanksgiving
         2. entertaining, tasty
         3. get together, pray, eat
         4. American people like it
         5. tradition