Halloween H4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 4

What words do you associate with Halloween?

Goals for today:

* You will know more about the history and tradition of Halloween

* You have practised writing in the past simple 

Where does Halloween originally come from? 

1. Ireland
2. Scotland
3. England
4. United States

Which population (=bevolkingsgroep) started Halloween?

1. The Romans
2. The Greek
3. The Celts
4. The Persians

What does the word Halloween come from?

1. All Hallow's Eve
2. All Hail's Eve
3. All Havens Eve
4. All Holy Eve

What do you call the orange thing that we carve faces in at Halloween? 

1. pumpkin
2. tomato
3. melon
4. sugar beet

What are pumpkins used for at Halloween?

1. As lantern
2. Als food
3. As decoration
4. As mask

Halloween is a Christian celebration.

1. True
2. False

When did people start to celebrate Halloween? 

1. about 100 years ago
2. about 200 years ago
3. about 1000 years ago
4. about 2000 years ago

What is not a tradition at Halloween?

1. Trick or treat!
2. Decorating a tree
3. Wearing costumes
4. Carving a pumpkin

Halloween comes from Hallow's Eve. 

What do you think 'Hallow' means?

1. Scary
2. Strange
3. Hollow (= empty)
4. Holy (= sacred/heilig)

People used to believe that the dead would come back at Halloween. 

1. True
2. False

The Celts celebrated Halloween with a lot of noise, parades and big bonfires. 

1. Correct
2. False

What does 'Trick or treat'mean?

1. 'Give me a treat or I will prank you!'
2. 'Give me a treat or I will shoot you!'
3. 'Give me a treat or I will leave!'
4. 'Give me a treat or you are mean!'

Assignment:  You are going to write part of a spooky Halloween story, using the past tense. 

 There are three roles: 

A: write the beginning, Start with: "It was..."

B: write the middle of the story: Start with: " Suddenly...."

C: write the end of the story: Start with "It was then that...."

Decide together who will write what part:

You are not allowed to decide on a main topic/theme

A - beginning

B - middle

C - end

On your own :)

Time: 15 minutes

Read your parts to each other

Was it any good?

Now, try to improve the story together to see how it can become an actual full story.