HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Do you know the origin of this celebration? If you don’t, watch this video and find out more about this topic!

VOCABULARY

TO WONDER = to have an interest in knowing or learning something; to think about something with curiosity.
TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS => This phrase is used as an INFORMAL and often somewhat IMPOLITE way to tell someone to stop watching or asking about something that is private.
BEHOLD! (interjection)= look!; see!
TO BUMP= to collide with; to hit against an object in a sudden and forceful way.
Bump

WHATEVER (slang)
PILGRIM= a person who makes a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons.

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SETTLEMENT= a place where people have come to live and where few or no people lived before.
FARMER= a person who operates a farm or cultivates a land.

farmer

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HARVEST= the season when crops are gathered from the fields or the activity of gathering crops.

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BLESSING= approval that allows or helps you to do something.

Thanksgiving crossword puzzle
(printable or interactive)

SIMPLE PRESENT OR PRESENT PROGRESSIVE?

Simple present or present progressive?

Answers

Taken from Alexander, L. G. (1998), Longman English Grammar Practice for intermediate students, Harlow, Longman