Halloween

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 1

Which words do you associate with Halloween?

October 31st

March 17th

February 14th

July 4th

Independence day

Halloween

St. Patrick's day

St. Valentine's day

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 chair
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)

Which of the following things isn't a tradition anymore during Halloween? 

1. To prank people
2. To make lanterns from pumpkins
3. To make bonfires (=vreugdevuren)
4. Trick or treat

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!'

The Halloween colours orange and black symbolise....

1. Harvest (= oogst) and death
2. Day and night
3. Sun and moon
4. Fire and ash (=as)

Pumpkins are related to (= family of)...? 

1. Tomato
2. Sugar beet
3. Carrot
4. Cucumber

Halloween

• + 2000 years ago

• 31st of October

• All Hallows' Eve (31 Oct)

• All Hallows (1 Nov)

• Started in Ireland > Samhain

Samhain 

• Celebrated in Ireland, the UK & Northern France

• To mark* the end of the summer months & harvest time*

• Darker colder months were associated* with death

• They thought the ghosts would return to earth

* To mark = markeren, harvest time = oogsttijd, associated = associëren/verbonden

When do we celebrate Halloween?

1. 30 October
2. 31 October
3. 1 November
4. 2 November

What Celtic festival does Halloween originate from?

1. All Hallows Eve
2. Samhain
3. Harvest time
4. Hallowmas

How many Americans dress up (verkleden) during Halloween? 

1. about 100 million
2. about 120 million
3. about 140 million
4. about 150 million

How much money do the Americans spend on Halloween?

1. 6 billion
2. 6 million
3. 600 thousand
4. 60 thousand

What is the most popular Halloween candy?

1. Snickers
2. Mars
3. Milky Way
4. Oreo

What do you call a carved Halloween pumpkin?

1. Jack-O'-Lantern
2. Jill-O'-Lantern
3. John-O'-Lantern
4. Jane-O'-Lantern

On which day are the most sweets sold in America?

1. 23rd December
2. 30th December
3. 31st of October
4. 28th of October

Facts

• The Irish brought their traditions to the US in 1840

• Halloween we know of today started in 1921

• Mass production costumes started in the 1950s

Why do we wear costumes?

Why do we wear costumes?

Spirits cross over to the land of the living. The people were scared.

They disguised* themselves by wearing a mask/costume so evil spirits wouldn't harm* them.

* To disguise = vermommen, to harm = pijn doen

https: