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Scholastic has a good feature on [|The First Thanksgiving] that provides audio support to the text and is very engaging. [|Pilgrim Village] is a simple E-Book, also from Scholastic, that provides audio support for the text. EL Civics has an [|ESL Thanksgiving Lesson] that provides a good overview of the holiday in an accessible way. [|What Really Happened At Thanksgiving?] is an interactive from Plimoth Village where players become investigative “historians.” [|This is a nice listening exercise] where students have to pick the words from a drop-down menu while listening to the text (about Thanksgiving) being read. The same site has a series of shorter [|Thanksgiving listening exercises]. The History Channel has a ton of online videos and other resources on [|The History of Thanksgiving], plus excerpts from their special presentation on the [|Crossing of the Mayflower]. Here’s a simple matching exercise to learn about [|Thanksgiving food]. [|The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving] is a very accessible “web adventure” where students have to answer questions along the way. Here’s an online [|Thanksgiving crossword puzzle] from the Internet TESL Journal. [|Thanksgiving in the USA] and [|The First Thanksgiving in America] from “Many Things”.