Halloween mavo 3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Which words do you associate with Halloween?

Goals for today:

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

* You will have learnt more Halloween related words

* You have practised the simple past in written  text

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.  

 

A: write the first  4 to  5 sentences: Start with: "It was..."

B: write the middle of the story; 5 to 6 sentences:   Start with:      " Suddenly...."

C: write the end of the story; 3 to 4 sentences : Start with "It was then that...."

Who is writing which part?

A - beginning: Kaoutar, Nena, Boyka, Debby, Hugo, Carmen B, Sander, Tahira, Fiona, Daan

B - middle: Yannick, Jamal, Amelie, Britt, Milan, Carmen K, Nout, Chico,Sky, Ferdo

C - end:               Safina, Ayah, Dilara, Selfah, Jaimy, Julian, Liv, Beau, Frank , Jasmijn

On your own!                       Time: 8 minutes

You have 1 minute to.....

Make an A-B-C group

Read your story to each other

Was it any good?

Next: Find a new group repeat 3 x

What was the best story you heard?

What do you take away from this lesson? Name (at least) 2 things: