What do you know about Halloween? (Elementary+)
Lesson 1. What do you know about Halloween?
1. Read the questions and match them to the answers. What do you know about Halloween?
1. Where does the idea of Halloween come from?
2. What does ‘Halloween’ mean?
3. What is the main symbol of Halloween?
4. What tradition makes Halloween so popular?
a) Pumpkin
b) From the Irish
c) Trick-or-treating
d) All Hallows' Eve
2. Write down the words associated with Halloween (up to 15)
e.g. Halloween: Black cats, orange, Jack o Lantern, the Devil, October 31st .......
Use this article to help you: http://dawnsbrainstorm.blogspot.com/2011/09/list-of-words-associated-with-halloween.html
3. Watch the video* ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EtkXnLqPMw) and tick the words from your list that you hear (or see :) )
*****4. Watch the video from 0.52 – 1.20 and tell why pumpkin is called ‘jack-o-lantern’. Use the key words to tell the story:
Jack
play jokes on
Underworld
the Devil
get mad
kick out
wander
with a lantern
* - you can watch the video as many times as you want
*****- the most challenging task.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!
Answer Keys:
1. 1b 2d 3a 4c
2. Your words
3. Possible answers: the Irish, black cat, pumpkin, Jack-o-lantern, October 31st, festival, goblins, ghosts, jokes, trick-or-treat, spirits ...
4. Possible answer: There lived a man named Jack. He always played jokes on people. He died and went to the Underworld. He played a joke on the Devil. The Devil got mad and kicked Jack out. Jack started wandering over the earth at night with a light of a lantern.
