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AMERICAN

HOLIDAYS

Thanksgiving Day

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Many thousands of people from different parts of the United States and from many others countries in the world come to New Plymouth and they always go to see the Rock which reaches the sea. They take off their hats, stand there and think about the brave men and women who, more then three hundred years ago, were they had come to begin a new life .

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History

Mayflower

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The story started in1620. A group of people decided to leave England and go to leave in America.They wanted to be free to practise their religion.They wanted a new and better life.On the 16 th of September they left Plymouth, a port on the south coast of England.Their ship was called « Mayflower » .Their were about a hundred of them.

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• It took them about a month or two to cross the Atlantic Ocean. At last they saw America on the 9 th November.

Sixteen men left « the Mayflower» and went ashore. In the evening they came back to the ship and brought some maize with them. Thеy found the maize in the sand on the beach where the Indians had left it. Nobody in Europe had seen maize then, but when the people on board « the Mayflower» tried it they liked it very much .

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During the next five weeks the men from the Mayflower left the ship every day. There were looking for a good place to live. The weather was very cold, more and more men fell ill. The people began to build a village there.

By January, 1621, there were already two streets in this village, and they called it ‘New Plymouth’.

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One day the people of the village suddenly saw a tall Indian who was walking along the street. They were frightened very much, but this Indian came up to them, smiled and said. « Hallo, Yankee! Hallo,Yankee!»

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All Indians who came to the village of New Plymouth called the Englishmen ‘Yankee’, and since that time ‘Yankee’ has been the name of a white man in America .

At last spring came. The people of New Plymouth began to plant corn, and the Indians showed them how to plant maze.

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In autumn the crops were very good and the people of New Plymouth wanted to make a holiday dinner. They asked the Indians to this dinner, and the Indians brought some wild turkeys as a present.

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The turkey was an American bird. Very few people in Europe had ever heard about it, but when they ate it at this dinner they liked it very much.

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Thanksgiving is a day when people send loving messages and warm wishes to their relatives, friends, near and dear ones. It is a day of conveying their feelings through Thanksgiving cards.

Thanksgiving Traditions :

Attending or watching parades

Other Thanksgiving Traditions

Watching and playing American football

Throughout the United States, football on Thanksgiving Day is as big a part of the celebration as turkey and pumpkin pie.

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TEST your knowledge of

• When is Thanksgiving Day celebrated ?

• Who were the Pilgrims ?

• What town did the Pilgrims build in America ?

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• How did the people live during the first winter in «New Plymouth»
• How did Indian call all Englishmen?

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• How many people went on « the Mayflower» from England to America?

• Why did the people of New Plymouth decide to make a holiday dinner the next autumn?

• Why did the people call their holiday ‘ Thanksgiving Day ’?

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