CNN STUDENT NEWSで感謝祭を紹介！
今日は日本では勤労感謝の日。明日はいよいよアメリカの感謝祭/Thanksgiving Dayです。同じ感謝の日でも随分違うようです。
アメリカの感謝祭について、CNN STUDENT NEWSが紹介しました。
Q:感謝祭を年間行事として制定したのはどの大統領だったでしょう?
A.ベンジャミン・フランクリン/Benjamin Franklin
B.トーマス･ジェファーソン/Thomas Jefferson
C.エイブラハム･リンカーン/Abraham Lincoln
D.セオドア・ルーズベルト/Theodore Roosevelt
答は後半に紹介する動画と英語のスクリプトをご覧ください。
ニュースでは感謝祭がピルグリム・ファーザーズ/Pilgrim Fathers がアメリカ大陸に到着した翌年、1621年の秋と言われていますが、当時から七面鳥が食されていたかどうかは分からないそうです。
感謝祭の時にはアメリカンフットボールの試合をテレビで見ながら過ごすと言われますが、原住民と移民たちの親睦の象徴である感謝祭で勝ち負けを競うのはなぜでしょう？
感謝祭に関する映像がたくさん出てきますので、この記事を感謝祭関連の締めにしたいと思います。動画とスクリプトを掲載します。終盤には一般的ではない感謝祭の習慣がいくつか紹介されています。リーディングやリスニングに存分にご活用ください！Happy Thanksgiving!
感謝祭関連記事
11/24（木）は感謝祭！起源は?
感謝祭・Thanksgiving Day の英語なぞなぞ１
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感謝祭・Thanksgiving Day の英語なぞなぞ４
英語ブロンドジョーク ON 感謝祭 Thanksgiving
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Who established Thanksgiving as a national U.S. holiday? You know what
to do. Was it Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln or Teddy
Roosevelt? You've got three seconds, go.
President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day proclamation in 1863 established it
as a national annual event. That's your answer, and that's your Shoutout.
Studio
President Lincoln might have made the first annual Thanksgiving proclamation.
He would have been a little late celebrating the first Thanksgiving meal
-- 242 years late. The tradition goes all the way back to 1621, when Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to dine together and celebrate the harvest. But the holiday has changed a little over the years. Feast your eyes on this.
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Oh, sure, it might have started with a cornucopia and a big feast, but
not a turkey. There is no proof that turkey was on the first Thanksgiving
table in 1621. The fact that it is today isn't the only unexplained tradition
of Thanksgiving.
First, take football. What would the Pilgrims and Native Americans say
about this? They came together in a spirit of harmony. That's not what
the teams do. Then there's shopping -- severe shopping, Black Friday shopping,
with specials getting earlier and closer to Thanksgiving dinner every year.
But why save room for dessert when you can save money on a 3D TV?
And what this has to do with giving thanks is as mysterious as stuffing.
What is stuffing? For better or for weirder, this is just how we celebrate
Thanksgiving. It's just not the same without this stuff-ing.
And even if the turkey didn't win a place at the founding feast, it did
win a place in the heart of Founding Father Ben Franklin. He didn't want
the bald eagle to be our national symbol. He wanted the turkey. He said
unlike the eagle, the turkey was a more respectable bird, a bird of courage
-- sometimes too much courage.
No! God! Go away!
But just as turkey attacks are often pardoned -- or "tabled"
-- heh, heh -- the president pardons one lucky turkey every year in a tradition
dating back to 1989.
Is this an unusual tradition for the Thanksgiving season? Maybe. But it's
not the only one. After all, at the end of dinner, we are what we eat.
Studio
Yeah, turkeys. We all have some pretty unusual Thanksgiving traditions.
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In Marice's family, they go to the petting zoo the day before Thanksgiving
to pet the turkeys in a show of appreciation.
Julia and her cousins reenact the first Thanksgiving, and Julia's always
the turkey.
Mikeal or Mikeal's family makes turducken, a chicken stuffed into a duck
stuffed into a turkey. It may sound disgusting, but it really tastes good.
Kirsten's family watches Filipino soap operas. Every Thanksgiving, there
is a marathon of soap operas.
Ally's family heads to their cabin and cuts down Christmas trees. They
get enough trees for half the neighborhood, deliver them, and then set
up their own Christmas
stuff.
At Ela's house, they have a turkey that they always name Pablo. Then throughout
dinner, her grandfather sings songs about Pablo that he made up while eating.
Madison and Brittain have a "Thanksgiving Bowl" in their back yard. They use ripped-up pieces of cloth and play flag football.
And Sarah says it shouldn't matter if you have a wacky tradition. It only
matters that you spend the holidays with people you love.
Studio
Well, that, my friends, will gobble up all our time for today. We are certainly
thankful for all of you who watch CNN Student News. We'll be back next
Monday.
Have a very happy Thanksgiving.