Ecards :

• Thanksgiving Greetings, Thanksgiving Cards, Thanksgiving ecards from Ecard4all
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving Cards (jacquielawson.com)

• View a Jacquie Lawson's card for Thanksgiving! : Turkey in the straw (jacquielawson.com)
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving : Card 1 + Card 2 (Jacquie Lawson's cards)

History / Facts :

• PETA Thanksgiving Ad
  "Today is  Thanksgiving Day in the United States, so lots of Americans will be tucking into roast turkey.
  But not if animal rights organization PETA has anything to do with it.
  They've launched a controversial poster campaign aimed at children which asks, 'If you wouldn't eat your dog, why eat a turkey?'."
  + COMMENT + LINKS
  (englishblog.com)

  

• Gigantic balloons dominate New York streets for Macy's annual parade + a video
  "New Yorkers and visitors line the streets of Manhattan to catch a glimpse of the giant balloons and floats of Macy's 85th Thanksgiving Day parade... The show included 11 marching bands, 800 clowns, 1,600 cheerleaders, dancers and singers, crews manning 27 floats and handlers for 15 giant balloons and 44 other mid-sized balloons."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Thanksgiving is a Holiday With a Colorful History - An article
  "As you stuff yourself this Thanksgiving, remember the conditions under which the Pilgrims celebrated that famous first Thanksgiving in 1621 in what is now Massachusetts. O.K., from what I could tell, they had a good time. But they lacked the key ingredient of the modern-day Thanksgiving dinner..."
  (cagle.com)

• Thanksgiving: US travellers hit the holiday roads - 24 November 2011
  "The US is preparing to mark the annual Thanksgiving holiday, with more Americans taking to the road or skies for family visits than in recent years."
  + In Pictures: Thanksgiving
  + Thanksgiving Day weather
  + Lady Gaga in Thanksgiving special
  + In Pictures: Thanksgiving in history
  + Keeping Thanksgiving traditions alive
  + Thanksgiving with the Obamas
  (BBC)

• Adopt-A-Turkey Project - Save a life and Adopt-A-Turkey.
  "Adopt-A-Turkey Project seeks to end the misery of commercially-raised turkeys by offering a compassionate alternative for Thanksgiving.
  Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys, placed hundreds into loving homes through our annual Turkey Express adoption event, educated millions of people about their plight, and provided resources for a cruelty-free holiday." 
  (adoptaturkey.org)

  Farm Sanctuary "works to protect farm animals from cruelty, inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals, and promote compassionate vegan living."
  (farmsanctuary.org)

• "Needy families and individuals
  line up during the ninth annual Harris Teeter Redskins Harvest Feast in Landover, Maryland.
  Sponsored by the Harris Teeter grocery chain, the Washington Redskins and other organisations, the food donation programme provides 3,500 families
  with a whole turkey and other food in a Thanksgiving basket."
  (BBC)

  

• At Thanksgiving, the Makings of a National Feast
  "State facts about holiday foods. Also, a look at a food drive for poor families in Denver, Colorado."
  REPORT + AUDIO + Watch a VOA News video about the food drive in Denver
  (voanews.com)

• Turkey Holocaust Day 2011 - an article (cagle.com)

  

• US President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey,
  "named Apple, in a ceremony with daughters Sasha and Malia, together with National Turkey Federation Chairman Yubert Envia, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC." - 25 November 2010
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  
  
  White House Floor Plan (solcomhouse.com)

  

• Sweet Potatoes Step Out From Under Marshmallows
  "To meet demand, American farmers are planting more, chain restaurants are rewriting menus and ConAgra this month opened a $155 million plant dedicated to processing frozen sweet potato products — the first of its kind in the world..."
  (nytimes.com)

  

• National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation
  (Wikipedia)

• Presidential Pardon
  The turkey that lives to see another day
  "Each year since 1947, the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board have given a turkey to the President of the United States at a White House ceremony."
  (infoplease.com)

• Slideshow : Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House
  "Officially, the presidential turkey pardon began during George H.W. Bush's first Thanksgiving in the White House in 1989."
  (infoplease.com)

  

• President Bush Pardons "May and Flower" in National Thanksgiving Turkey Ceremony
  (georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov)

  

• Thanksgiving Slideshow (scholastic.com)
  
  
• THE THANKSGIVING STORY - Read, watch and listen! (websidestories)
  - with activities to print

• A Brief History of America - animation
  (bowlingforcolumbine.com)
  
  

• The Pilgrims: Voyage to Freedom (socialstudiesforkids.com)
  
  

• Thanksgiving - History : BrainPop Movie - (brainpop.com)
  
  
  
  
  

• Online Fun - Become a Historian! - Investigating the first Thanksgiving (plimoth.org)
  
  
  
  
  

• Social Studies for Kids - Pilgrims - définitions claires (socialstudiesforkids.com)
  (de même pour . Plymouth Colony . William Bradford . Mayflower . Mayflower Compact . Massasoit . Samoset . Squanto . Wampanoag, etc)
  
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving - A Timeline (teacher.scholastic.com)
  
  
  
  
  

• PILGRIMS' VOYAGE: MAP AND THE MAYFLOWER (from Enchanted Learning)
  
  
  
  
  

• The Pilgrims' 1621 Thanksgiving (with Foods Available to the Pilgrims for their 1621 Thanksgiving) - (calebj)
  
  
  
  
  

• Painting of First Thanksgiving (lcweb2.loc.gov)
  
  
  
  
  

• 1999-11-20 Clinton's Proclamation on Thanksgiving Day 1999 (ofcn.org)

Resources :

• Hundreds line up for Thanksgiving turkeys (dailycal.org)
  
  

• How Thanksgiving works (people.howstuffworks.com)
  

  1. Introduction to How Thanksgiving Works
  2. Thanksgiving Customs in Other Cultures
  3. History of Thanksgiving
  4. Thanksgiving Day
  5. Thanksgiving Turkey
  6. Thanksgiving Traditions ...
     + Videos + Image Gallery + Quiz
     
     
     
     
     
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (social.macys.com)

  

• 'Mayflower' Web Pages (calebj)
  
  

• Thanksgiving Activities (dltk-holidays.com)
  Coloring Pages / Crafts / Games and Puzzles / Poems and Songs / Printables / Recipes / Worksheets
  

• Bountiful Thanksgiving (kate.net) :
  Thanksgiving Day Parades - Stories/Poems/Songs - Clipart, Backgrounds, Icons - History/Documents/Places - Cards...
  
  
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving (CNN)
  
  
  
  
  

• Page de liens sur Thanksgiving - "history, activities, treasure hunts and webquests"
  (by Barbara Dieu, Brazil)
  
  
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving on the net (holidays.net)
  
  

Black Friday :

• Black Friday 2011 in pictures: shoppers take advantage of discounts across the US - 18 pictures
  "The American holiday shopping season began in earnest on Black Friday as stores opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year...
  Black Friday is traditionally the discount shopping day that follows Thanksgiving in America and signals the start of the Christmas shopping period.
  Cyber Monday, which this year is Monday December 5, is predicted to be the UK's busiest online shopping day of the year with over two million orders expected to be made."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• US shoppers hunt for bargains on Black Friday
  "Millions of Americans have been heading to the shops on Black Friday, a crucial event for US retailers...
  Department store Macy's said it had 7,000 shoppers outside its flagship Herald Square store in Manhattan in the early hours of Friday morning, some 2,000 more than last year. "
  (BBC)

  

• In pictures : Black Friday shoppers - US and Canada - a slideshow
  (BBC)

  

• 10 Social Media Deals to Check In to on Black Friday
  "Black Friday is upon us and that means that retailers are scrambling to offer the best door-busting (or mouse-busting) specials and promotions to entice eager holiday shoppers."
  (mashable.com)

• Black Friday : an article + AUDIO (headsupenglish.com)

• Black Friday
  - "the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, one of the busiest shopping days of the year...
  It is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season."
  1 Origin of the name "Black Friday"
  2 Black Friday on the Internet
  3 Buy Nothing Day
  4 References
  (Wikipedia)

• CARTOONS :
  
  

   

  Black Friday - cartoons (cagle.com)

  
  
  

  Black Friday (assets.gearlive.com)

  Black Friday (missionsforum.files.wordpress.com)

  Black Friday (cagle.com)

Vocabulary :

• You Say Potato, I Say Yam (nytimes.com)
  - an article recommended by Renée Maufroid

• Thanksgiving Dinner - PHOTOS + Vocabulary
  (ielanguages.com)

  

• Thanksgiving Vocabulary with definitions (johnsesl.com)

• Thanksgiving Vocabulary - definitions (teach-nology.com)

• Vocabulary Words (advanced) - (plimoth.org)

Cliparts :

• Thanksgiving Clip Art (from About.com)
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving Clip Art (from Kids Domain)
  
  
  

Listening :

• "2 activités à découvrir sur Soundguide, en plus du nouveau look.
  Molly nous parle des différences entre la France et les US et de Thanksgiving.
  Intéressant pour le vocabulaire et quelques gap fillers.
  Lien sur la page d'accueil."
  (soundguideweb.com)

• 4 nouveaux fichiers sur Thanksgiving sur Audio-Lingua (audio-lingua.eu)
  

• Thanksgiving (audio-lingua.eu)

• The original Thanksgiving (animatedthanksgiving.com)

  

• Fichiers audios sur le thème de Thanksgiving
  "Audio Lingua propose des enregistrements authentiques autour de la fête de Thanksgiving."
  (Elisa Gy - Ac. Versailles)

• Pilgrim Village - Listen & Read. (teacher.scholastic.com)

  

• Thanksgiving Day: Filled With Family Traditions and, Oh Yes, Food (VOA News)
  - with Transcript
  
  
  
• Dictation - Pilgrim Fathers, Thanksgiving Day (learnenglish.de)
  
  
  
• THANKSGIVING - "Listen and fill in the blanks." (michel.barbot)

• Thanksgiving - enregistrement court et de compréhension aisée (Académie de Montpellier)

• Thanksgiving - History : BrainPop Movie - (brainpop.com)
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Thanksgiving - Didapages by Danièle Lagarde - Niveau : 5ème

• Interactive Book : Thanksgiving
  Created by Laurence HAQUET (Ac. Rouen)
  Visit her BLOG
  (frenchfrogslittleenglishpond.blogspot.com)

• The Story of Thanksgiving - PowerPoint Presentation
  sent by Corinne Degezelle

  

• Let's celebrate Thanksgiving.
  "Stephanie, our American assistant, is telling you about Thanksgiving in her country, listen to her and do the activities."
  Created by Renée Maufroid
  (Ac. Lille)

  

   

• The Turkey Blues
  "Listen to the song and then do the activity."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Thanksgiving - Activities created by Renée Maufroid
  Matching - Flashcards (Java / non-Java) - Concentration - Word Search

  

• Thanksgiving: A web adventure. - interactive (prof2000.pt)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Thanksgiving Meal - (a4esl.org)
  "Do you know what was served for the first Thanksgiving dinner in 1621?
  The Indians taught the Pilgrims about many foods which they could grow and hunt in the new land. These are some of them.
  Choose a letter from each box to create a word then check the answer."

• Thanksgiving traditional food (Ac. Paris)
  
  
  

• THANKSGIVING - "Listen and fill in the blanks." (michel.barbot)

• Thanksgiving in the USA - 35 questions (manythings.org)

• The First Thanksgiving in America (30 Questions) - multiple choice exercise (manythings.org)

• A very short text about Thanksgiving - "Choose the correct words to go into the blanks." (a4esl.org)
  

• Pilgrims - history and comprehension exercise (British Council)
  
  
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving voyage - "Fill in all the gaps" (Ac. Paris)
  
  
  
  
  

• The story of Thanksgiving Day - gap-fill exercise (Ac. Paris)
  
  
  
  
  

• The history of Thanksgiving, with a "reading comprehension quiz" (esl.about.com)
  
  
  
  
  

• My Amazing Thanksgiving - expression écrite - "See your wacky web tale" (eduplace.com)
  
  
  
  
  

• Thanksgiving - Page de ressources (teach-nology.com) :
  Vocabulary Builders - Web Quests - Lesson Plans - Worksheets - Games - Coloring / Writing Sheets - Recipes - Songs - Crafts - Downloads