I. Read the text.
The United States is a young country. It is more than two
hundred years old. Americans like new ideas. (1) _____. They like to be modern:
to live in modern cities, in new houses, to have new cars.
At the same time, Americans love old things. They like to
visit historic houses and museums, they rebuild old places (2) ____. They are
interested in old traditions, but they are good at making new traditions too.
The people of the United States come from many different places in the world.
In one city you can find people whose parents or great-grandparents came from
Africa, Asia, South America, and every European country. (3) _______.
Americans have a lot of festivals of the Old World, but
there are new American festivals and traditions as well. For example,
Thanksgiving1 is an American holiday.
The tradition goes back to the year 1621 (4) ______. They
wanted to thank God2 for many things.
It was a difficult year, but the people still had food to
eat. They also wanted to thank the American Indians who helped them.
Today Americans have Thanksgiving dinner on the fourth
Thursday of November. They usually eat turkey and sweet potatoes. (5) ______.
_______________
1 Thanksgiving [ˈθæŋksɡɪvɪŋ] — День Благодарения (праздник в США)
2 God [[ɡɒd]] — Бог
I. Пользуясь текстом, переведите фразы на английский язык
1.
любят новые идеи
2.
в то же время
3.
родом из / приехали из
4.
Старый Свет
5.
берет начало
6.
четвертый четверг ноября
7.
едят индейку
II. Read the sentences / parts of sentences and put them into
the correct place in the text.
A. Thanksgiving is the day when families get
together.
B. and remember the early days of their country.
C. when they decided to have a thanksgiving dinner for all the
people.
D. They built the first skyscrapers and they put the first man on the
Moon.
E. These different people brought to their new land
their traditions and their lifestyle.
II
The United States is a young country. It is more than two
hundred years old. Americans like new ideas. (1)They built the first
skyscrapers and they put the first man on the Moon. They like to be modern:
to live in modern cities, in new houses, to have new cars.
At the same time, Americans love old things. They like to
visit historic houses and museums, they rebuild old places (2) and remember
the early days of their country. They are interested in old traditions, but
they are good at making new traditions too. The people of the United States
come from many different places in the world. In one city you can find people
whose parents or great-grandparents came from Africa, Asia, South America, and
every European country. (3) These different people brought to their new land
their traditions and their lifestyle.
Americans have a lot of festivals of the Old World, but
there are new American festivals and traditions as well. For example,
Thanksgiving1 is an American holiday.
The tradition goes back to the year 1621 (4) when they
decided to have a thanksgiving dinner for all the people. They wanted to
thank God2 for many things.
It was a difficult year, but the people still had food to
eat. They also wanted to thank the American Indians who helped them.
Today Americans have Thanksgiving dinner on the fourth
Thursday of November. They usually eat turkey and sweet potatoes. (5) Thanksgiving
is the day when families get together.
_______________
1 Thanksgiving [ˈθæŋksɡɪvɪŋ] — День Благодарения (праздник в
США)
2
God [[ɡɒd]] — Бог
III. Read the sentences and write T (True), F (False), NS (Not
stated):
1)
The USA is not an old
country. ____
2)
Americans like new things
and hate everything old. _____
3)
Black Americans come from
the African continent. _______
4)
The tradition of
thanksgiving comes from Europe. _______
5)
The first thanksgiving
dinner took three days. ________
6)
Thanksgiving is the most
popular holiday in the USA. _______
7) On Thanksgiving Day parents, grandparents,
children and grandchildren meet.______
IV. Расскажите о празднике День
Благодарения, используя разные приемы.
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