Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

This week, let us talk about Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate the good harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (i.e., Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people. The American holiday is particularly rich in legend and symbolism and the traditional fare of the Thanksgiving meal typically including turkey, bread stuffing, potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Here’s some trivia questions about Thanksgiving in America. Ready to solve? (source from St. Joseph Indian School)         1.    Which state is the top turkey-producing state in America? _________________        2.    _____________ % of all cranberries consumed in the U.S. per year are eaten on Thanksgiving.        3.    The ____________________ of the turkey is used in a good luc...

Let’s solve the NPR Sunday Word Puzzle! (on the air November 17 th , 2019)   Every answer today is a word or name that ends in the letters -LLO. Ex. Standard greeting --> HELLO 1. Dessert that jiggles: ____________________ 2. Winemaker Ernest or Julio: __________________ 3. 1960s-'70s U.S. space program: ________________ 4. Brand of scouring pad: ________________ 5. Largest city in the Texas Panhandle: _____________ 6. Abbott's partner in old comedy: ________________ 7. Animal with a leathery shell much seen in Texas and the Southwest: ________________________ 8. Italian sculptor of the Renaissance; also one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ______________________ 9. Kind of mushroom: ________________ 10. Island in New Brunswick, Canada where F.D.R. had a summer home: _____________________ 11. Highly caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink: __________________ Answer Keys 1. Jello 2. Gallo ...

Word Jumble with Names of Muscles!   How many muscle groups in your body can you name? Let us reassemble the following letters to make the names of our muscles. The first letter of each word is Capitalized.      1.    eloDisidt : ________________            2.    mAnliodsba : _______________      3.    Oesquilub : _______________      4.    trsgiamHsn : _______________      5.    Romdihbso : ____________________      6.    dcruoAtd : ________________            7.    pscireT : _______________           8.    udairpecQs : _______________            9.    Tsarezpiu : _________________ 10. pseiBpc : __________________ Answer Keys ...