Halloween

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome everyone!

Do you celebrate Halloween?

Yes

No

What is Halloween?

Halloween is a cool holiday on October 31st. People love it in the United States and Canada, but it started in Ireland, Scotland, and England a long time ago. On Halloween, you get to wear fun or scary costumes, go trick-or-treating to collect candy, and have parties with games like bobbing for apples and spooky haunted houses. We also carve pumpkins into funny faces or scary ones, and we call them jack o'lanterns. Some other countries celebrate Halloween too, but it's the most exciting in the United States.

The Netherlands

The United States 

England

Ireland

Today's lesson: Halloween

1. The story of Halloween: Listening

2. On a dark night in October: Reading/Vocabulary  

3. Drag and Drop: To test your knowledge 

4. Halloween Candy Quiz: Blooket

At the end of this lesson:

• You have practiced you listening skills
• You have learned at least 5 new words
• You know about the history of Halloween
• You know how Halloween is celebrated

1. Listening

Listen to the video

and answer the questions

2. Reading/Vocabulary 

 Choose one of the two exercises and complete it carefully.

When finished: solve the extra puzzle on the back. 

3. Drag and drop

To test your knowledge 

pumpkin

Spider

Crow

Witch

Owl

Bat

Black cat

Cauldron

Spiderweb

Ghost

Trick or treat

Candy

Let's check

• You have practiced your listening skills
• You have learned at least 5 new words
• You know about the history of Halloween
• You know how Halloween is celebrated

4. Halloween Quiz! 

Go to: Blooket.com

00:43

In which country did Halloween start?

1. America
2. England
3. Ireland
4. Scotland

01:11

How did the Celts ward off (afweren) ghosts?
More than one answer is correct

1. by wearing costumes
2. Carving pumkins (uitsnijden van pompoenen)
3. Dancing with the gohsts
4. Bonfire

01:32

How did Halloween start?

1. They liked to dress up as something scary
2. To protect themselves from ghosts
3. They were protecting themselves from other people
4. They liked to scare each other

01:39

What is a Jack o'lantern?

1. paint on a pumpkin
2. a pumpkin carved out with faces

02:09

Who were the first Jack o'lanterns?
More than one answer is correct.

1. Potatoes
2. Tomato
3. Pumpkin
4. Turnip