Thanksgiving - Vocabulary Gap Fill
Practise Thanksgiving vocabulary with a word bank, 15 sentence gap fills and three partner discussion questions. Includes a separate answer page with completed sentences.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Word bank for supported practice
- 15 sentence gap fills
- Three partner discussion questions
- Completed sentences on a separate answer page
Use fifteen bank words or phrases in sentence contexts about Thanksgiving, followed by three open discussion questions.
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Before the lesson
Give learners page 1 and keep the suggested answers on page 2. Preview gratitude, harvest and feast and explain that each bank item is used once.
- Distinguish the actions gather and celebrate from meal nouns, and complete cranberry sauce using the plural cranberries.
- Check pumpkin pie and family meal, preserving the worksheet's United States context for November.
- Discuss celebratory food or an imagined shared meal; the gratitude question may be answered generally or passed.
Support and extension
Provide noun/verb groups and collocations. Extend with a short meal description. Review the complete bank when considering plausible alternatives such as dinner and feast.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.




