VOCABULARY

HALLOWEEN

What do you know about Halloween?

Who celebrates Halloween? When? Where? How?
Halloween is a very old tradition. Do you know where it comes from?

Read the following text carefully.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31^st. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening, also known as All Hallows’ Eve. Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, wearing costumes, visiting haunted houses and carving jack-o-lanterns. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It is an activity for children in which they wear costumes and go from house to house asking for treats with the question Trick or treat? Halloween has its origins in an ancient Celtic festival, Samhain (/’sa: win/). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest in the Gaelic culture. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31^st, the dead would come back to life and cause sickness or damaged crops.

VOCABULARY

bonfire (n) a large outdoor fire

costume (n) a set of unusual clothes, e. g: a witch costume

to carve (vb) to decorate by cutting

main (adj) principal in importance

treat (n) a gift

ancient (n) very old

harvest (n) the season for collecting crops

sickness (n) the state of being sick

crop (n) the produce of cultivated plants

a witch

a jack-o-lantern

True or false?

People celebrate Halloween at night.
Trick-or-treating involves knocking on doors.
The word Halloween means “end of the harvest”.
Children wear every day clothes on Halloween.
People carve their own jack-o-lanterns.
Gaelic people believed that the dead would become alive again.
Gaelic people believed that the dead could damage their crops.

What do you think about Halloween?

RESEARCH

Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, wearing costumes, visiting haunted houses and carving jack-o-lanterns.

A) What is a haunted house?

B) “ ”

Describe these activities. Use these questions to help you: Who does this activity? What do they do? Where do they go? How is that place? Do they use any tools?

C) When children go trick-or-treating, they ask for treats. People usually give them sweets. Use a dictionary to make a list of what they can get. For example: lollypops, candy, chocolates...

D) Halloween is a traditional holiday in some countries. Is it popular in Argentina? Who celebrates it here? How do they celebrate it?

E) What is a superstition? Which superstitions do you know? Are you superstitious?

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