The short story of Thanksgiving for primary school students in Poland (based on material from Steps Forward 3, OUP).

1. THANKSGIVING

2. Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every year
in November. It’s an important festival for
families. They try to be together for a special
dinner of roast turkey with vegetables.

3. The story of Thanksgiving
goes back four hundred years.
In the early 1600s, people from
England went to North
America for a new life. They
were called Pilgrims.
But the Pilgrims had problems.
They couldn’t grow food or
build homes very well and lots
of them became ill.

4. One day in the spring, the
Pilgrims met two Native
Americans called Squanto and
Samoset. They showed the
Pilgrims how to hunt and
catch fish, and how to build
homes.

5. They also showed them
how to grow corn, and by
the autumn, things were
much better for the
Pilgrims.

6. The Pilgrims wanted to say thank you, so they invited the
Native Americans to a special meal. It was first Thanksgiving
dinner. They ate turkey, fish, green beans and soup.

7. Today, in North
America people eat
turkey at
Thanksgiving. They
have it with potatoes,
gravy and cranberry
sauce. For pudding,
most Americans
usually have pumpkin
pie. Delicious!