“abc” Junior School

Thanksgiving Lesson Plan

Class: Beginner, advanced beginners, grades 1-4

DATE: --,--,2010

PERSON IN CHARGE: Hernan Cashabamba

LESSON TOPIC
Thanksgiving; the Mayflower
TIME: 45 minutes
GENERAL COMPETENCE: to develop communicative competence
through linguistic competence by means of: reading, listening, speaking,
and writing satisfactory performance according to the student’s age and
needs and demonstrating the use of values.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:
GENERAL: students will be able to talk about the topic
SPECIFIC: students will be able to use and produce the language
according to the topic

METHOD TO BE USED: COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING

FOCUS ON VALUES: cooperation, respect of each other’s opinion, teamwork, and
socializing.

SKILLS TO BE EMPHASIZED
Listening, reading, speaking, writing
Content
 Vocabulary development for the holiday of Thanksgiving; social
studies concept of the settling of the New World.
Vocabulary needed
Pilgrim, Mayflower, passenger, freedom pray, king, Native
Americans, tools, plant, hunt, build, crowded, hungry, dirty, equal,
rules, warriors, harvest,turkey, lobster, corn, squash, pumpkins.
Vocabulary will vary according to grade and English language level.

 Grammar: simple past and simple present

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PROCEDURE

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.- asks students about words related to the topic

gives some instructions during the class period
makes SS work in small groups

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.- 20-minute Warm-up(puzzles)

Thanksgiving
Look for the words in the puzzle listed below it.

RTTUGIQMTS
HEZURNIGOG
OTWRRRIOON
TZUOGKWKLI
NGKLLJEZSK
UKIQRFFYUP
HPOCQNYVLM
HARVESTAJU
DLIUBWNXMP
MGDSJTXKLA

o BUILD
o HARVEST
o HUNT
o KING
o MAYFLOWER
o PILGRIM
o PLANT
o PUMPKINGS
o TOOLS
o TURKEY
Complete the following puzzle

American Thanksgiving Puzzle

ACROSS

1. Who were the first settlers that celebrated Thanksgiving?

3. These are the people you eat Thanksgiving dinner with.
5. What is the most common main dish for Thanksgiving dinner?
8. Who did the pilgrims celebrate Thanksgiving with?
9. What big holiday is celebrated in November?
14. You watch this Thanksgiving morning on TV.

DOWN

1. This pie is orange. [HINT: You see a lot of them at Halloween.]

2. What can you find inside of a Thanksgiving turkey?
4. What is another word for "sweet potatoes?"
6. Dad's watch this game on TV after Thanksgiving dinner.
7. This food is red in color.
10. Who is the famous guy who appears at the end of the Thanksgiving parade?
11. What does a turkey say?
12. What animal loves to beg for some of your turkey dinner?
13. What do you do most of on Thanksgiving day?
- Look for a book with simple pictures in it about the Pilgrims and the
Mayflower.

- Review the story several times by asking students to point to the

Mayflower, the Pilgrims, etc.
- Give students a sense of how crowded the Mayflower was by making a
rectangle on the floor of your classroom with masking tape. Make your
rectangle small enough so that when your students all stand inside of it,
they feel crowded.

- Brainstorm 4 or 5 important facts about the Mayflower as a group and

write these facts on sentence strips. There should be a strip for each student
in the group. Students should be able to sequence these strips.

- Have students write one of the facts on a sheet of paper & learn to say that
fact.

- Present the story of the Mayflower to the ESL students' classes

MATERIALS
 Cards
 Board

EVALUATION

It’s going to be during the whole class period and focusing at the end of the
class as feedback.