Would you like to celebrate Thanksgiving?

As you know, I'm English so I've never celebrated Thanksgiving at home but I've always seen it on American films and series and it seemed so appealing!! Everyone with their family and friends around a table full of autumn recipes in their cosy dining rooms, feeling thankful and at peace with the world, what could beat that?

As you can see I would like Thanksgiving to be celebrated everywhere! Besides I'm not the only one, take look at a post by Ellen (a British Council blogger) who has thought of five reasons to celebrate Thanksgiving:-

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/magazine/life-around-world/5-reasons-why-i-wish-we-celebrated-thanksgiving-uk

Imagine Thanksgiving was celebrated in Spain, what would happen? Let's use the second conditional to speculate, e.g.:-

If Thanksgiving were celebrated in Spain, I would like to try pumpkin pie.

OR

If Thankgiving were celebrated in Spain, it would be a great opportunity to spend time with our families.

Please write at least five second conditional sentences like these, feel free to post them in the comments below.

Use these questions to help you.

• What recipe would you make for Thanksgiving if it were celebrated in Spain?
• Who would you celebrate Thanksgiving with if you celebrated it?
• Is there anything you wouldn't like to try if you celebrated Thanksgiving?

EXTRA PRACTICE

Match these photos (from one to nine from left to right) to the definitions:-

A) They fall from trees in Autumn, they're normally red, orange and brown.

B) It's a dessert made of pumpkin.

C) We normally carve it at Halloween.

D) Squirrels eat them.

E) We can eat this in a salad, for breakfast (as cereal) and grilled with salt.

F) Men used to wear it to protect themselves from the sun or the cold.

G) It's sweet and usually red or green

H) It grows on pine trees.

I) In the UK we eat it at Christmas