Hi guys, today´s job here at the LACE is to check some sites that would be interesting for your program units. Let´s see the following:
Unit 5. Giving instructions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1212_how_to_instruct/page7.shtml
Unit 6. Planes para el futuro
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtofuture/menu.php
and do the 4 exercises
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtoorwill/menu.php
and do the 5 exercises
Check this site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)
and then, answer with your own words, in the wiki, the following questions:
1. What does Thanksgiving mean?
2. What does the celebration mean?
3. Who were the first one in American to celebrate this day?
4. When is it celebrated?
5. Who were the pilgrims?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
1. What is celebrated in Christmas?
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
If you can´t write in the wiki, write the answers in your blog and upload some picture about those holidays.
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González García Gabriela 508
1. Thanksgiving Day What does it mean?
As its name says, Americans give "thanks" a Jesus Christ so well that maybe I was in the year, even that are alive, or what we can come or who I am.
2. What does the celebration?
it is a very memorial day for the Christian religion in the United States, as the governor of the colony of pilgrims who were making a dinner to thank God for the good harvest they had.
3. Who were the first in America to celebrate this day?
This provided that the first celebration was on 8 Sep 1565 by 600 Spaniards who like their arrival in the New World gave thanks to God for his llegaday as Florida is part of the U.S. as it contemplates that way. but the dinner with the Pilgrims was in 1621.
4. When is?
have changed much since the holidays but the tradition is the last Thursday or the 4th Thursday of November.
5. Who were the Pilgrims?
I think we were the ones who came from England and formed colonies
1. What is celebrated at Christmas?
and supposedly what my grandparents told me that it is the celebration of the birth of Jesus
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
because in my family as if they are a bit devotees to the Catholic religion, because my grandmother since 24 at night is the tradition of leaving from my grandmother's house in procession whole family singing and leading the "Gods children" in canasta or something like that, coming to the church since it was set to sing and the whole colony to lull their muñcosen that time, since coming to the house of Posada calls des'pues dinner and the traditional, but this year will be different, that all The Grandchildren will do the cenade Christmas.
Only 25 are movies and eat the same thing the previous day
Arrocena Salgado Pablo Alberto. 508
Hi teacher here I´m going to answer the questions about thanksgiving and Christmas of curse with my own words.
1-What does Thanksgiving mean?
This day is a ferderal holiday in USA and it´s special because they experess thanks to Jesus for all the harvest in the year.
2. What does the celebration mean?
Thanksgiving was originally a religious day for all the members of the community to give thanks to God for a common purpose. The tradition of giving thanks to God is continued today in various forms. Religious and spiritual organizations offer services and events on Thanksgiving.
This day most of people meet with their families so as to share all god things in the ald yaer and tradition in many families to begin the Thanksgiving dinner by saying thanks.
3. Who were the first one in American to celebrate this day?
The first recorded Thanksgiving ceremony took place on September 8, 1565, when 600 Spanish settlers, under the leadership of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés although the first one´s in get the custums that persist until today were the pilgims.
4. When is it celebrated?
It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season.
5. Who were the pilgrims?
They were a group of seventeenth-century European colonists of North America that came from England.
1. What is celebrated in Christmas?
We celebrate xmas because this day is in wich Jesus of Nazaerth was born, so it mark a new era. In this day many people decorate a tree and put over theirs houses lights.
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
In my case ,this day we have a meeting with my family and we decorate the grandfathers house with a big tree with a lot of lights, chat about god an bad things that we lived in the year and we dence, then at 12 o´clock we have a posada and after that we have a dinner of course we eat turkey.
Gomez salazar sarahi 508
Hello teacher!
Here are my answers and questions.
1._ What does Thanksgiving mean?
Is an annual American Federal holiday to express thanks for one's material and spiritual possessionsparades, spending time with family.
2._ What does the celebration mean?
is considered secular, or at least nonsectarian, and is not based on any specific religious canon or dogma.
3._ Who were the first one in American to celebrate this day?
The Native Americans and english settlers.
4._ When is it celebrated?
on the fourth Thursday in November (on the november 27).
5._ Who were the pilgrims?
English settlers.
CHRISTMAS:
1. What is celebrated in Christmas?
jesus who was born in nasaret.
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
My family does inns, dinner on December 24 and dinner on December 31 to celebrate the new year.
bye teacher!!
jessica rosales rios 508
hi teacher!
1.What significaAcción of Thanks?
The Thanksgiving Day it is a traditional celebration of North America.
2. What it means does think the celebration?
It constitutes regularly a great familiar feast, in which the persons meet his relatives concerning around the table, realizing traditional celebrations.
3. The one who was the first one in the American to celebrate this day?
The first Thanksgiving Day painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930).
4. When is it celebrated?
In the United States it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, though originally it was done last Thursday. In Canada, for your part, it is celebrated on the second Monday of October.
5. The one who was the pilgrims?
The party is intimately related to the first events of the English settling in the New World. In 1620 a group of Christian settlers, who later would be known as pilgrims
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my name is adalberto gonzalez rosas
1.What does Thanksgiving mean?
It is an event that takes place annually in American federal holiday to express appreciation for one of material and spiritual, spending time with family
2. What does the celebration mean?
Action on Thanksgiving is generally considered a secular, or at least nonsectarian, and is not based on any religion or religious dogma.
3. Who were the first one in American to celebrate this day?
Native Americans
4. When is it celebrated?
celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season
5. Who were the Pilgrims?
English settlers
Chrisman
1. What is celebrated in Christmas?
The birth of Jesus of Nazareth
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
My family celebrates Christmas, making a meal, adorn the Christmas tree and making a scale replica of the birth.
Hi teacher, I´m so sorry because I didn`t go to last class but the reason in I sick, and I have to leaved the school but this is my homework:
1. What does Thanksgiving mean?
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday, and is a form of harvest festival. The date and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention, though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida.[1] Despite scholarly research to the contrary, the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.
2. What does the celebration mean?
Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is done in the evening, usually as a gathering of friends and/or family.
3. Who were the first one in American to celebrate this day?
the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation,.
4. When is it celebrated?
In 1621
5. Who were the pilgrims?
Pilgrims, or Pilgrim Fathers (or Pilgrim Mothers), is a name commonly applied to the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled a volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of the Netherlands to preserve their religion. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.
1. What is celebrated in Christmas?
Christmas (IPA: /krɪsməs/), also referred to as Christmas Day or Christmastide, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25[2] that marks and honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.[3][4][5] His birth, which is the basis for the Anno Domini system of dating, has been determined by modern historians as having occurred between 7 and 2 BC. The date of celebration is not thought to be Jesus' actual date of birth, and may have been chosen to coincide with ancient Roman solar festivals that were held on December 25
2. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
Well, my family and me celebrate the Christmas in our house, with a big dinner with my grandparents, uncles and cousins. Well, with my cousins and I, see and turn on a lot of fire works, when our parents talk and drink ponche or coffee, in the dinner eat chicken, break, cookies and things like that. And that’s it.
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