文档介绍：Unit 5 How to Celebrate Holidays Text A Writing Three Thank-you Letters
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About Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most businesses close for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation.
Thanksgiving is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America.
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About Thanksgiving
In 1620 the ship the May Flower arrived, bringing about 150 people who today are usually called Pilgrims. They arrived at the beginning of a very hard winter and could not find enough to eat, so many of them died. But in the following summer Native Americans showed them what foods were safe to eat, so that they could save food for the next winter. They held a big celebration to thank God and
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About Thanksgiving
the Native Americans for the fact that they had survived.
Today people celebrate Thanksgiving to remember these early days. The most important part of the celebration is a traditional dinner with foods e from North America. The meal includes turkey, sweet potatoes(also called yams)and cranberries (酸果蔓), which are made into a kind of sauce or jelly.
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The turkey is filled with stuffing or dressing, and many families have their own special recipe. Dessert is pumpkin made into a pie.
On Thanksgiving there are special television programs and sports events. In New York there is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, when a long line of people wearing fancy costumes march through the streets with large
About Thanksgiving
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Balloons in the shape of imaginary characters. Thanksgiving is considered the beginning of the Christmas period, and the next day many people go out to shop for Christmas presents.
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About the author
Alexander Palmer Haley (1921~1992) American biographer, scriptwriter (影视广播剧编剧人)and author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS. In it Ha