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Transcript of Listening Module 7 PC

Thanksgiving Day that US turkey farmers aren't celebrating
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday that Americans celebrate on the fourth Thursday
in November. This autumn festival is traditionally celebrated with family and friends over a
big meal that takes hours to prepare. The meal usually includes turkey served along with
dishes like cranberries, sweet potatoes, green beans and pumpkin pie. The turkey is usually
seasoned and roasted in an oven, but some people fry the bird in oil or cook it on a grill or in
a smoker.
The National Turkey Federation estimates that Americans ate forty-six million birds for
last year's holiday. The government expects turkey production to increase two percent this
year.Turkey is eaten all year, and Americans have been eating more of it over the years,
though chicken, beef and pork are still more popular. Federation president Joel
Brandenberger says twenty-twelve will not be as profitable for turkey farmers as the last two
years were. Feed costs are up while turkey prices are about the same.
The Pilgrims' feast in sixteen twenty-one is often considered the nation's first
Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims were early settlers of Plymouth Colony in what is now
Massachusetts. They held a three-day feast to celebrate a good harvest. However, other
European settlers in North America also held ceremonies of thanks. These included British
colonists in Virginia in sixteen nineteen.
In eighteen sixty-three, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared the
last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. In nineteen thirty-nine, as the
Great Depression was ending, President Franklin Roosevelt established the holiday on the
fourth Thursday. He did not want to shorten the Christmas holiday shopping season in years
when November has a fifth Thursday. The season traditionally begins with a busy shopping
day on the Friday after Thanksgiving, although some stores are now opening on the holiday
itself.
One of America's founders, Ben Franklin, thought the turkey would better represent the
country as its official bird than the bald eagle. But Joel Brandenberger disagrees: "I think
we're better off having the bald eagle on our coins and the Thanksgiving turkey on our
dinner table."

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Answer Key

Reading Passage1
1. False. "Results from PISA suggested that school autonomy in defining the
curriculum and evaluation methods relates positively to overall performance."
2. True. "not only their characteristic educational approach but also their cultural
background play an important role in their success"
3. ...candidates have to be highly qualified and go through a tough job selection
process...
4. ...they have an extra teacher in class who provides him or her with additional
support.
5. By combining primary and secondary schools in a single institution. / By having
teachers that stay with a single class for many years.
6. Facilitating greater creativity and innovation. / A greater degree of individual emotional well
being is allowed.

Listening Passage1
7. roasted in an oven / fried in oil / cooked on a grill / cooked in a smoker.
8. The number of millions of turkeys eaten the previous year for Thanksgiving Day.
9. Because feed costs are up while turkey prices are about the same.
10. 3 days.
11. In Virginia.
12. He did not want to shorten the Christmas holiday shopping season in years when
November has a fifth Thursday.

General Language
13. What

20. has been

27. been

14. How

21. by

28. had been / were

15. Do / Would

22. that / which

29. instead

16. mind

23. used to

30. ourselves

17. told / asked / have

told / have asked

24. most

18. to

25. arrived

31. c) ancestor

19. course

26. had

32. a) office rs

Pronunciation

Slo se evaluar el nivel de comprensin escrita / oral. Los errores de expresin escrita no se tendrn en
cuenta.

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