{"id":16902,"date":"2018-11-25T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/?p=16902"},"modified":"2023-05-10T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:11:50","slug":"learn-english-from-the-news-the-growing-tradition-of-friendsgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/learn-english-from-the-news-the-growing-tradition-of-friendsgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn English from the News: The growing tradition of Friendsgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flgzSsgQq3A?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Hello students! It&#8217;s Shayna from\u00a0EspressoEnglish.net\u00a0and this is our final edition of &#8220;learn English from the news&#8221; for this year. A few days ago, it was the holiday of Thanksgiving in the United States. Most people celebrate it with their families, but there&#8217;s a growing tradition of also celebrating &#8220;Friendsgiving&#8221; and having an additional meal with friends &#8211; and that&#8217;s the topic of this week&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2018\/11\/millennials-friendsgiving-history\/575941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click the link to read the original text<\/a>. There are a lot of great vocabulary words in this article, and I&#8217;m going to explain 15 of them. If you&#8217;re watching me for the first time, make sure to subscribe to my channel or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/500phrases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for my email tips<\/a>, so that you can get future lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of the article says that many young adults want to <strong>host<\/strong> a Friendsgiving party. If you host an event, meal, or party, it means you organize it and invite people, often to your own home.<\/p>\n<p>People often have questions about Friendsgiving etiquette. <strong>Etiquette<\/strong> refers to polite behavior that follows the socially-accepted rules.<\/p>\n<p>One question is if it&#8217;s an <strong>imposition<\/strong> to invite guests to a Thanksgiving-style meal so close to the actual holiday. An imposition is an annoying and inconvenient demand. The answer is no, it&#8217;s not an imposition. It&#8217;s ok to have a Friendsgiving meal, but you might want to <strong>deviate<\/strong> &#8211; that means go in a different direction &#8211; from traditional Thanksgiving food in order to avoid stealing the thunder from the real holiday. The idiom <strong>steal someone&#8217;s\/something&#8217;s thunder<\/strong> means to take away most\/all of the attention.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to organize a Friendsgiving meal is hands down potluck-style. <strong>Hands down<\/strong> means definitely, without a doubt. And the word <strong>potluck<\/strong> refers to a group meal where everyone in the group brings a dish for everyone to share.<\/p>\n<p>Friendsgiving used to be something that people who were living far away from their families would do as an ad hoc replacement for Thanksgiving. <strong>Ad hoc<\/strong> describes something that&#8217;s spontaneously created for a specific purpose. But now many people celebrate it in addition to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Why has Friendsgiving become so popular? The article says there are a few <strong>compelling<\/strong> theories. Compelling describes something interesting and convincing.<\/p>\n<p>One possible reason for the <strong>surging<\/strong> popularity &#8211; that means the suddenly increasing popularity &#8211; is simply the catchy name &#8220;Friendsgiving.&#8221; The adjective <strong>catchy<\/strong> refers to a word, phrase, idea, or melody that is attractive and easy to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason is the tendency of one-day holidays to <strong>sprawl<\/strong> into the surrounding days and weeks. The verb sprawl means to expand and take up more space. So instead of the single day of Thanksgiving, we have weeks of the &#8220;Thanksgiving season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving has been a strong family holiday for a long time. The phrase &#8220;Home for Thanksgiving&#8221; became a mantra. A <strong>mantra<\/strong> is a word or phrase that is commonly repeated, especially for motivation or to reinforce an idea.<\/p>\n<p>But nowadays, many young adults consider their friends to be family. One woman said that Friendsgiving is a great time to catch up with friends. The phrasal verb <strong>catch up with<\/strong>, in this context, means to talk with people and find out what&#8217;s new in their lives lately.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman has celebrated Friendsgiving for around seven years, and her friends&#8217; party is described as raucous and boozy. The word <strong>raucous<\/strong> describes a gathering that is loud and crazy, and <strong>boozy<\/strong> is the adjective form of booze &#8211; an informal word for alcohol. So a raucous and boozy party means a loud, crazy party with lots of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Some people might consider an extra celebration to be <strong>overkill<\/strong>. Overkill refers to an excess, beyond what&#8217;s necessary and appropriate. But a professor interviewed in the article points out that Friendsgiving\/Thanksgiving are great because they&#8217;re not expensive; instead they involve homemade food, generosity, and <strong>hospitality<\/strong> &#8211; that means welcoming people in a warm and friendly way.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed my series of English in the news videos in November. Again, you can subscribe to keep following my lessons, or visit\u00a0EspressoEnglish.net\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/english-speaking-courses\/\">join one of my courses<\/a>. 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