2NB&2NI Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of theharvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BQSOkkoDjc

2NB & 2NI Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…

That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: , officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names. 

An emoji is ‘a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication’; the term emoji is a loanword from Japanese, and comes from e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character’.

Do you know your emoji names? Take this quiz

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/#quiz

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2NI Chicken Tikka Masala

Curry (/ˈkʌri/, plural curries) is a dish originating in the cuisine of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The common feature is the incorporation of complex combinations of spices or herbs, usually including fresh or dried hot chillies. Some limit the use of the term curry to dishes prepared in a sauce,but curries may be "dry" or "wet". A curry dish may be spiced with leaves from thecurry tree, but many curries do not have this ingredient.

Without question, chicken tikka masala is a brilliant curry that makes people very happy. Of course it’s inspired by fantastic Indian cooking, but is in fact an Anglo-Indian evolution, created to suit British palates.

http://allrecipes.com/video/1258/authentic-chicken-tikka-masala/

2NB Present Simple

http://www.teachya.com/grammar/beginner/present_simple.php

2NI Stative Verbs

Some English verbs, which we call state, non-continuous or stative verbs, aren't used in continuous tenses (like the present continuous, or the future continuous). These verbs often describe states that last for some time.

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/stative-verbs.html

2NI Money

A German challenger bank, Fidor, arrives in the UK with the promise of making banking fun.

             What would your ideal bank be like?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032y8df

A German challenger bank, Fidor, arrives in the UK this week with the promisf making banking fun

2NB Colours

                          What's your favourite colour?

                                    http://www.real-english.com/reo/4/unit4.asp