Halloween 2024

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 1

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

pumpkin

Spider

Crow

Witch

Owl

Bat

Black cat

Cauldron

Spiderweb

Ghost

Trick or treat

Candy

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

Where 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. As 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)

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. 'If I sing you will give me a treat'
3. 'Give me a treat or I will leave!'
4. 'Give me a treat or you are mean!'

Why do people wear costumes on Halloween?

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

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 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

The most sweets are sold every year on.....

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 as we know today started in 1921

• Mass production costumes started in the 1950s