Thanksgiving!

What does Thanksgiving Day celebrate?

Thanksgiving was originally a holiday to give thanks to God for the harvest. Today it is an

opportunity to give thanks for all the good things God has given us. It is also a day to celebrate family.

When is Thanksgiving celebrated?

In the United States Thanksgiving is observed on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada it occurs on the second Monday of October.

Who celebrates this day?

The day is widely celebrated throughout the United States and Canada.

What do people do to celebrate?

The day is a national federal holiday in the United States. Most people have the day off as well as the Friday following, making a long weekend for travel and holiday.

The way most people celebrate this day is by getting together with family and having a large meal. Many people travel all over the country for large family gatherings on this day.

Many cities have large parades on Thanksgiving Day. Perhaps the largest and most famous parade is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. It is widely televised and has been running since 1924. Other cities with big parades on this day include Detroit, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Another popular way to spend the day is watching NFL football. There are generally a number of football games on even though it is Thursday. The Detroit Lions are a traditional team that plays a game nearly every Thanksgiving.

Traditional Food

The traditional food for the Thanksgiving meal includes a turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, vegetables, and pumpkin pie.

History of Thanksgiving

Fun Facts About Thanksgiving

• Each year a live turkey is presented to the President of the United States who then "pardons" the turkey and it gets to live out its life on a farm.
• Around 46 million turkeys were eaten in the US on Thanksgiving in 2010. That's around one fifth of all the turkeys eaten for the entire year.
• Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird instead of the bald eagle.
• Around 88 percent of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
• The Pilgrims sailed to America from Great Britain on a ship called the Mayflower.
• The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday. It is the biggest shopping day of the year.

Unit 3: Seeing the world. Grammar!

Comparison of Adjectives

In this unit, we have seen the comparison of adjectives. Here you have a brief English lesson explaining what comparatives and superlatives of adjectives are, and how to use them:

And a brief summary in this photo!

And here you have some exercises to practise it!

Begginers: Set 1, Set 2

Intermediate: Set 1, Set 2

Advanced: Set 1, Set 2

Expression of sufficiency

In this unit we have seen the uses of (not) as ... as, too ... and (not) ... enough:

And here you have some exercises to practise it:

Begginers: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3 

Intermediate: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3 

Advanced: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Unit 1: They're famous! Topic vocabulary

Here you can find a fun way to review vocabulary: flashcards! Just click on the links to do them. You have four different sets for each type. Have fun! ☺️

Adjectives of description 

Adjectives of personality

Unit 3: It's a thrill. Grammar!

In this unit, we are learning how to express future events in English. First of all, it is very important to understand the difference between time and tense. Time is an universal concept, a human perception that is divided (generally) in past, present and future. Tense, on the other hand, is a linguistic concept that is seen as a reflection of time in speaking. Nevertheless, these two concepts are not always equivalent. For example, if I say:

"My train leaves at 9.00 am tomorrow."

I am talking about tomorrow, that is, future, but using a present tense. In this case, time and tense are not equivalent.

It is important to understand this, and to learn in which ways time and tense differ in the languages we speak - since Spanish and English are not always perfect translations of each other. For example, we have an Spanish equivalent to the English be going to ("voy a"), but we do not have any equivalent to the use of present continuous with future value.

Knowing this, we can dive into the verbal tenses we'll need to pass the exam with flying colors!

Will vs. be going to

The rules are pretty simple:

uWe use will + the base form of the verb to form the Future Simple.

uWe use am, is or are + going to + the base form of the verb to form be going to.

And there you have some exercises to practice it!

Begginer: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Intermediate: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Advanced: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Future continuous vs. Future perfect simple

The rules are simple too:

uWe use will + be + verb + -ing to form the Future Continuous.

uWe use will + have + the past participle to form the Future Perfect Simple.

And here you have some exercises to practice it!

Begginers: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Intermediate: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Advanced: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3

Unit 3: It's a thrill. Topic vocabulary!

Here you have the flascards for the vocabulary of unit 3. Have fun! 😉

Nouns & Verbs

Adjetives

Expressions

Unit 1: At School. Topic Vocabulary!

Here you can find a fun way to review vocabulary: flashcards! Just click on the links to do them. You have four different sets for each type. Have fun!

School

Activities

Unit 3: Teens today. Topic vocabulary!

Here you can find a fun way to review vocabulary: flashcards! Just click on the links to do them. You have four different sets for each type. Have fun!😀

Activities

Routines