Halloween.pdf

Hallowe'en, 31st October Elementary

1. Work with a partner. Label the pictures with the words from the box.

witch / wɪʧ / ghost / gəʊst / skeleton pumpkin /' pʌmpkɪn / costume / ˡkɒstjʊm /

(a) ……………………… (b) …………………………… (c) ………………………… (d) ………………………… (e) …………………………

2. Which of the following festivals are the above associated with? Tick the appropriate box. Compare with

your partner.

¢ Christmas ¢ Easter ¢ Thanksgiving ¢ Hallowe'en

3. Work with a partner. See if you can answer the questions below. Tick ( V ) the appropriate box.

(a) The first people to have a festival similar to Hallowe'en lived in

¢ the United States. ¢ Ireland. ¢ Canada.

Remember!

(b) People dressed up like ghosts or witches

¢ to have fun. ¢ to cheat evil spirits. ¢ to live longer.

We write : 30th October

We read : the thirtieth

of October

¢ 30 th October. ¢ 31 st October. ¢ 1 st November.

4. Read the text below to see whether you were right. Change any wrong answers you gave.

A long time ago, the Celts (who lived in Ireland, Scotland and Wales) celebrated the new year

on 1 st November, and the night before that, 31 st October, was the eve of the Celtic new year,

called "All Hallows' Eve". The Celts believed that souls of dead people came back to the earth

during that night to find a new body for themselves. Of course, no one wanted a ghost to live

in his body, so people dressed up to look like the souls of the dead. When Christianity came

to Ireland, people no longer celebrated the new year on 1 st November but they didn't stop the

tradition of dressing up as ghosts. When millions of Irish people immigrated to the United

States in the 1840s, the tradition came with them. These days, on 31 st October every year,

people in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada celebrate Hallowe'en. It is a

celebration mostly for children, although more and more adults celebrate Hallowe'en as well.

(a) What do you know about Hallowe'en?

(b) Is Hallowe'en popular in Poland?

5. What do people do during Hallowe'en? Read the text below and match the pictures (a) – (f) to the

paragraphs (1) – (5). Write the letters in the boxes. There is one extra picture which you do not need to

use. Then compare your answers with a partner.

PHOTOCOPIABLE

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(1) ¢ Many people wear strange costumes. Children dress up as ghosts, pirates, vampires,

witches, princesses, or popular heroes of the day, e.g. Superman or Harry Potter. Both children

and adults go to Hallowe'en parties where they play games.

(2) ¢ One Hallowe'en game is called "bobbing for apples". Someone puts water in a big bowl and

throws apples into the water. To win the game, players need to take the apples out of the bowl

but they mustn't use their hands. They are blindfolded and they have to take an apple out with

their teeth! The game is sometimes very difficult and players can get very wet!

(3) ¢ In the evening, children knock on their neighbours' doors and yell "Trick or Treat!" when

the door opens. The person who opens the door should give the children some goodies (sweets,

fruit or little toys). If the children don’t get anything, they will play a trick on the neighbours.

They may put soap on their car windows or throw toilet paper on the trees in their garden!

(4) ¢ Children will definitely get some goodies in a house which has a "jack-o'-lantern" in the

window. Jack-o'-lanterns are big orange pumpkins with faces cut out in them. People made

them to scare the ghosts away but today they are not really so scary.

(5) ¢ Jack-o'-lanterns are not the only Hallowe'en decorations. Many people decorate windows of

houses and schools with cut-out figures of witches, black cats, skeletons and ghosts.

6. Which of these activities do you think is most fun? Tick (

V ) one box and compare with a partner. Tell

him / her why.

¢ dressing up ¢ trick-or-treating ¢ making a jack-o'-lantern

¢ making Hallowe'en decorations ¢ bobbing for apples

7. In the magic square below, find 13 words connected with Hallowe'en. The words can go horizontally ( ó

or ò ) and vertically ( õ ). The letters from the remaining squares, read horizontally, will reveal the name

of the next important British festival.

COSTUMEGUY

FDRESSUPP

SSKELETONU

W O A A W W KE I M

EUSTR I CKGP

ELPPA T NHK

TI Y R A CSGT I

SHT GHOS TN

1. ……………………………………… 10. …………………………………

2. ……………………………………… 11. …………………………………

3. ……………………………………… 12. …………………………………

4. ……………………………………… 13. …………………………………

5. ………………………………………

6. ………………………………………

7. ………………………………………

8. ………………………………………

9. ………………………………………

The 'mystery' festival: ………………………………………………………………………

8. Maybe you could organise a little Hallowe'en party at your school or class? You could have a costume

party and play bobbing for apples. Maybe you could even tell a scary ghost story?

PHOTOCOPIABLE

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