Thanksgiving in Spanish and Culture Vocabulary PowerPoint & Activities

Keep your class running in Spanish instead of English this November!

One of the biggest challenges during El Día de Acción de Gracias is that students want to talk about their family traditions, favorite foods, and holiday celebrations, but they often don’t have the vocabulary to do it in Spanish. This engaging Thanksgiving in Spanish PowerPoint gives students the language they need to discuss Acción de Gracias, Thanksgiving traditions, family gatherings, gratitude, and all their favorite holiday foods while staying in the target language.

This Spanish Thanksgiving resource includes an 84-slide PowerPoint packed with captivating images, comprehensible vocabulary, sentence-based input, questions, and activities that help students acquire and use Spanish Thanksgiving vocabulary naturally. Students learn and practice high-frequency Thanksgiving food Spanish terms such as turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, corn, green beans, and more.

This Thanksgiving in Spanish PowerPoint includes the following:

• Checking for understanding questions after each group of images
• 15 questions with vocabulary in context for Spanish 1
• 15 questions with vocabulary in context for Spanish 2-4
• A quiz
• Answers
• SPANISH CULTURE

~Spanish reading comprehension passages on La Feria de Abril for Spanish 1

~Spanish reading comprehension passages on La Feria de Abril for Spanish 2-4

~Video on La Sevillana

~Chart comparing El Día de Acción de Gracias with La Feria de Abril in music, activities, dance, food, clothing, traditions, and family gatherings (música, actividades, baile, comida, ropa, tracidiones, reunions) to give students an opportunity to practice an AP Spanish Language and Culture task.

In addition to the PowerPoint, you’ll receive the following Spanish Thanksgiving activities:

• A Google Slides interactive PowerPoint with engaging visuals that keep students focused and participating
• A Google Forms self-grading activity
• Vocabulary and comprehension practice
• Speaking and reading opportunities

Perfect for novice and intermediate learners, these Spanish Thanksgiving activities help students discuss family, gratitude, traditions, blessings, prayer, gatherings, and holiday meals in Spanish. Whether you’re looking for Thanksgiving en español lessons, Spanish Thanksgiving vocabulary, or a ready-to-use Thanksgiving PowerPoint, this resource makes it easy to provide meaningful, comprehensible input while keeping students engaged.

Students will learn:

✔ Thanksgiving foods and traditions
✔ Family and holiday vocabulary
✔ Gratitude and thankfulness expressions
✔ Useful Thanksgiving verbs and phrases
✔ How to talk about Día de Acción de Gracias in Spanish with confidence

Save prep time, keep your students engaged, and make Thanksgiving Spanish lessons both fun and meaningful with this comprehensive Spanish Thanksgiving resource!

This resource is included in the following money-saving bundle:
Spanish Latin American Culture and Holidays Bundle

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