Презентация на тему Thanksgiving Day

the USA who proclaimed an official holiday when people

give thanks.

1. Abraham Lincoln announced it to be an official holiday

lasted for 3 days. It was some kind of

the harvest feast. People who celebrated that holiday were Pilgrims, the English Protestant settlers and the tribe of the Wampanoag. The menu that they had during that celebration differed greatly from the modern one. Their meals consisted of corn, shellfish and deer meat.

2. There was no turkey on the first Thanksgiving Day

the most popular parade which takes place on Thanksgiving

Day. About 3.5 million people can observe this show in New York City. Others usually watch at home.

3. Popular parade which takes place in North America on Thanksgiving Day

among Americans on Thanksgiving. The history of this tradition

began in 1934.

4. Football is the major entertainment of the day

people visit different bars and cafes that it makes

it the most profitable night for bar sales. The reason is that everybody meets with friends and relatives on this day. And the most popular place for that is a local bar.

5. The most profitable night of the year for bar sales

the fact that Thanksgiving is celebrated even by astronauts

in space, even when they are apart from their families and friends. Their Thanksgiving menu consisted of rehydrated mash potatoes, turkey smoked in foil pouches and rehydrated green beans with mushrooms.

6. Astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving

amino acid Tryptophan. It can make you feel sleepy.

But it doesn’t mean that if you eat a usual portion of turkey during Thanksgiving dinner you will fall asleep at once. There is not enough amount of tryptophan in it.

7. The Tryptophan doesn’t make you sleepy

Thanksgiving Day and sent it to the farm. In

such way he showed that the turkey was gifted a peaceful life. That happened in 1947. Since that time it has become a tradition. Nowadays the President selects two turkeys and Americans vote for their names. After that people can observe a public pardon of the President.

8. Every year the president pardons two turkeys

Friday”. At first it got such name in 1960

in Philadelphia. Traditionally “Black Friday” is the beginning of the shopping season during holidays.

9. The day after Thanksgiving

of food. Researches show that about 45 million turkeys

are consumed during Thanksgiving dinner. If Americans follow the same tendency this year they will spend about five billion dollars buying turkeys and trying to make their Thanksgiving menus perfect.

10. Every year 45 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving