~ Turkey Attack ~

[vitamin-d]

Here's a few things to make a relaxed Thanksgiving lesson out of.
I'm a Brit, so I've only ever celebrated this vicariously before.
If there're any historical mistakes or otherwise, please do let me know 

Greetings
The Thanksgiving Story - PPT
Word search/Poem - Worksheets
Turkey Attack - PPT

I've embedded fonts again.
If it hasn't worked for you, the Thanksgiving font can be downloaded here:
http://www.wonderfonts.com/holidays/thanksgiving/index.shtml
It's the sixth one down and is just called Thanksgiving.

Hope this works well for you guys.

[biancapotgieter]

Hey! Everything looks really great! I'm just a little confused about the rules for the game - what does it mean when a team is in reverse?

[vitamin-d]

I have 6 teams of 6 or more students in each class.
I normally go a certain direction, say from team 1 ending at team 6.
Reverse just means the direction.
If it was team 3 answering the question and team 4 was next, then it would now be team 2's turn.

I hope that makes sense.

[poppy]

This is great.  I am doing a Thanksgiving lesson for winte rcamp and some of this will be useful.

[GreenFloyd]

You're the man, Dan. I love your style. What else have you done besides this and the World Quiz?

[vitamin-d]

Hey GreenFloyd.

Nothing too exciting I'm afraid.
Only recently got into posting on waygook.

Glad you like it though.

Try these:

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,2450.0.html - Day of the Dead Debate
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,2246.0.html - Guy Fawkes Night
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,1642.0.html - Crazy Inventions
http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,1908.0.html - 'Dance Off' a play

- I'm making a Christmas one I'm pretty excited about though.
Keep your eyes peeled for the Christmas Countdown

[biancapotgieter]

Thank you so much for this, it was awesome to teach and my kids loved it.

[Harry Yeong]

Here's an adapted version of your piece vitamin, thanks a bunch!  If there is any videos out there I think it would accompany the lesson very well. I would love to find The Simpsons or The Peanuts with Korean subtitles on Thanksgiving... The last slide has a few links.

[vitamin-d]

Cheers for posting...

[summerthyme]

Just a comment on the updated version --

On slide 16, George Bush to illustrate "Turkey - an inept person."  People who have done similar political criticisms during their lessons have posted on here saying that they were not very well received by their co-teachers. 

Just something to keep in mind.  You can always replace him with Homer Simpson, and the kids would probably connect to that more anyway.  Ultimately it *is* up to you, though.

[rdh2209]

Here's another adapted version, with more info on the Macy's parade as well as a couple of youtube videos. I also made the font a little easier to read. Thanks so much for the great lesson!

[jwoon]

When I open the game the Mayflower questions don't come up. 

[vitamin-d]

When I open the game the Mayflower questions don't come up.

I don't know why that is Jwoon.
Has this happened to anyone else?

[Levviathen]

Hey Vitamin,

this is an awesome lesson and i am planning on using it next week. but i am having some trouble figuring out the game. two questions.

1. when you click an answer and it goes to the attack or minus 10% or whatever, how do you get back to the  main question page (the one with the little red tacks).

2. what do you mean single, double, triple?

thanks. again, great lesson.

[sheedi]

what does mystery mean?

[biancapotgieter]

I have also had some problems with the mayflower questions...

[jwoon]

I figured it out...the background covers up the questions.  Just move or get rid of the backgound and you'll be fine.

[vitamin-d]

Odd. Well I'm glad you've figured out how to fix it. 

[GreenFloyd]

Hey vitamin-d, I have adapted your version of Turkey attack to make it easier for my class, include open-ended questions, and also remove all the fonts since it was giving my computers a real headache. They wouldn't recognize the downloaded fonts no matter how hard I tried. Maybe other people will find this helpful.

Here it is:

[dwebsterlfc]

Good lesson thanks.

I adapted this by getting a listening gap fill exercise from eslholidaylessons.com, it's good practice for the kids, it give's your voice a rest and it kills some time.... always a winner.