HALLOWEEN IS BETWEEN FALL AND WINTER, BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. iT IS A TIME OF SUPERSTITIONS AND CELETRATIONS!!! This period of time is full of fear for some people...haha... but for others it is one of the best times of the year!!!! Some people carve pumpkins and others try to pretend they are evil creatures ( ghosts, werewolves, vampires, etc) Find out more things about the origin of Halloween watching this video. Answer the following questions.
1. Where does Halloween come from?
2. Why were bonfires made?
3. Why did the Pope Gregory III established the day of All Hallows Day?
4. How was the name the Celts used for their celebration changed
5. When did this festivity become important in America? Why
6. What are the origins of Trick or Treating?
Everything you wanted to know about the pumpkin but you were afraid to ask.....Watch this presentation and improve your knowledge about why this vegetable is important in Halloween.
Is trick or treating safe? Watch this video and try to answer the following questions.
1. What are the best choices when choosing costumes for children?
2. What materials do they recommed to avoid when in contact with candles, fire?
3. Why masks can be dangerous? what do they recommend instead?
4. What is advisable to do when you go trick or treating?
5. To be visible to drivers, what do we have to wear?
6. What should we do with the candies and toys the children get?
Do this spooky quiz about halloween vocabulary. If you don´t know the work ask for a clue
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/webcast/071101_halloween/quiz.shtml
Do you want to play a game? Here you have the HALLOWEEN GAME. Should you talk to strangers? Should you go trick or treating only to houses that are well lit? Play this game and find out which is safe for you
http://www.halloweenmagazine.com/play.html
Have you seen Nightmare before Christmas?
Jack Skellington, Pumpkin King, ruler of Halloween town, happens upon Christmastown, and decides to change Christmas into another Halloween. He kidnaps Santa Claus, then takes it upon himself to deliver some alternative gifts to unsuspecting children. He wants to turn Christmas into another Halloween!!
Watch the video.
- Can you describe this Hallowen town? What things happen in there?
- What typical stereotypes about Halloween can yo see there?
- What kind of frightenig creatures live there?
Do you feel spooked when you see Michael Jackson´s Thriller?
This song is a Halloween favourite. Pay attention to the wonderful video and then discuss in groups which evil creatures appear in the video and what do they do. What would yo do if you saw them?
In the song there are lots of verbs and words related to horror which help to create a gloomy and frightening atmosphere. Try to identify them as well
DO you like Edgar Allan Poe? He was a very important American writer and poet. He is famous because of his wonderful horror stories. Here you have a popular poem by him. It is a poem about love and death. Many critics say it is based on his own life.... Do you like it?
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Is trick or treating safe?
1. Costumes that there are confortable and safe
2.baggy sweats, long skirt, paper like materia,
3.because the mask are stright and bad at breathing
4.Go with an adult and stay in an informal neighborhood and go in groups.
5.Flash lights, or a reflected line in their costumes
6.Check the toys because perhaps there are small pieces.
Crossword:
1.ghost
2.trick or treat
3.werewolf
4.horror
5.toll
6.pumkin
7.supernatural
8.cemetery
9.coffin
10.scream
Vocabulary:
1. Ghost.
2. Trick or treat.
3. Werewolf.
4. Horror.
5. Toll.
6. Pumpkin.
7. Supernatural.
8. Cemetery.
9. Coffin.
10. Scream.
1-ghost
2-trick or treat
3-werewolf
4-horror
5-toll
6-pumpkin
7-supernatural
8-emetery
9-coffin
10-scream.
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IS TRICK OR TREAT SAFE?
1.-childen costumes have to confortable adn safe
2.-it's advisable that children to wear baggy sweats, long skirts and costumes made of paper or somethin similar
3.-because masks can obstruct children breathing. it's better that parents to paint child face
4.-it's recomended that children to go out with an adult, groups and stay in neighborhood
5.-children have to take flash lights and something fluorecent for that drivers can see children.
it's necesary that parents to tell their children that don't up in strangers cars
6.-parents should check candies for to know if candies are healthy and safe. also they should check toys in case to have small and dangerous peaces
VOCABULARIO
1.-ghost
2.-trick or treat
3.-werewolf
4.-horror
5.-toll
6.-pumpkin
7.-supernatural
8.-cemetery
9.-coffin
10.-scream
1-The best choice when you are choosing costumes for children is that the costumes must be safe.
2-They recom baggy clothes, long skirts and paper like materia.
3-Because mask can obstruct conduction and breathing.
4-when you go trick or treating is advisable be with an adult or with a group and stay in familiar neighbourhoods.
5-They have to wear some reflectate tape in the costume.
6-The parents of the boys and the girls should revise the candies that they get ,to know if they can be dangerous. And check the toys because they can be too small and dangerous too.
1-Ghost
2-trick or treat
3-werewolf
4-horror
5-toll
6-Pumpkin
7-Supernatural
8-Cemetery
9-coffin
10-Scream
-Leire Quirós-
IS TRICK OR TREAT?
1-The best choices are comfortable and safe costumes for children.
2-They recommend to avoid are baggy sweats, long skirt, paper like material
3-They recommend make up in faces paint better as face mask, because masks can obstruct children breathing.
4-It is a good idea stay with familiar neighbors. It is very important to kinds never going to home of strange or getting into the cars .It also important they stay at the group
5- They should be having flashlight or a reflective tape in a costume to precaution with cars.
6-The parents should be check candies and toys in case to they are dangerous for the kinds
VOCABULARY:
1-ghost
2-Trick or treat
3-Werewolf
4-Horror
5-Toll
6-Pumpkin
7-Supernatural
8-Cemetery
9-Coffin
10-Scream
Vocabulary:
1.- Ghost
2.- Trick or treat
3.- Werewolf
4.- Horror
5.- Toll
6.- Pumpkin
7.- Supernatural
8.- Cemetery
9.- Coffin
10.- Scream
1. What are the best choices when choosing costumes for children?
The best choices are costumes that are comfortable and safe.
2. What materials do they recommed to avoid when in contact with candles, fire?
Paper.
3. Why masks can be dangerous? what do they recommend instead?
Because they can obstruct children breathing. Instead, they recommend make-up faces.
4. What is advisable to do when you go trick or treating?
To go in a group or with adults and stay near the familiar neighborhood.
5. To be visible to drivers, what do we have to wear?
Reflective tape.
6. What should we do with the candies and toys the children get?
We should check them to make sure there is nothing dangerous.
VOCABULARY
1-ghost
2-trick or treat
3-werewolf
4-horror
5-toll
6-pumpkin
7-supernatural
8-cemetery
9-coffin
10-scream
1.What are the best choices when choosing costumes for children?
Clothes that are comfortable and safe
2.What materials do they recommed to avoid when in contact with candles, fire?
Long skirts, long dresses ...
3.Why masks can be dangerous? what do they recommend instead?
Because the masks are bad to breathe
4.What is advisable to do when you go trick or treating?
Go with an adult and in groups
5.To be visible to drivers, what do we have to wear?
Lights, flashlights or something that illuminates the costumes
6.What should we do with the candies and toys the children get?
Beware if toys are small parts that children can swallow
Crossword:
1. Ghost.
2. Trick or treat.
3. Werewolf.
4. Horror.
5. Toll.
6. Pumpkin.
7. Supernatural.
8. Cemetery.
9. Coffin.
10. Scream.
-Production in USA
Pumpkins originated in central america(Mexico). The main producing states pumkins are Illionois Ohio Pennsylvania and California.
-Health
Pumpkins have a lot of potassium vitamin A and fiber. Their seeds have a lot of protein. 19 th century new englanders thought that pumpkins could cure: Snake bites, freckles, facial wrinkles, diarrhea in cats and dogs and strangury in men.
-Halloween´s use
People put them in the porch at nightfall on October 31, the mischief makers have 14 hours of darkness to smash them. We also make Jack o lantern (Punkins with scary face)
Andrea 3ºD
-Origin-
Halloween comes from the celts (2000 years):Samhain. The night of October 31 people celebrated the end of the harvest season. People believed that the dead returned as ghosts. They were honored guests with food and wine. The people used costumes and masks for chase bad spirits. The christian church celebrated all hallows/All saints day (November 1) in the 8TH century.
-Differences between halloween (USA) and Samhain-
Now american people give sweets to children. In USA not celebrated the end of the harvest season. American people also decorate pumkins, the celts decorated turnins.
-Economic evolution-
American people spend 2.5 billion dolars in costumes. They spend 6 billion dolars in sweets and costumes each year!! Halloween is the second feast day moer expensive after Christmas.
-Souling and guising-
Trick or treat. Children offer a song, a joke, card trick, or tell a story in exchange for candy or in the case of case of some wealthier households some money.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Andrea 3ºD
Andrea i´ve seen your comments. I see you have understood most of the information and you have explained quite well the evolution of the festivity. Very good ear!!!! Well-Done!!! Thanks for your comments.
Have a good loooooong weekend!!!
-Halloween´s origins
Halloween´s history started two thousand years ago, when the celts thought that the deads returned as ghosts in October thirty first, one day before a feast named Samhain.
In October 31, people put food and wine in their porchs for keep spirits running all day. Also, when they leaf home they used costumes to look as a spirit.
The Christiam Church changed Samhain into all saints day and into all hallows, in the 8 century.
This is the origin of the name Halloween, that was Hallow´s eve.
-Souling & Quising
In the Medieval Britain, in all sains day, on the november second, the people praid for the deceade, againts the plague and the famine and for the good weather, this was called souling.
Also, in the Medieval Britain´s Halloween, the childs dressed costumes, and request food, wine and money, in exchange for singing, for recite poetry or telling jokes, this was called guising.
-Halloween today
The people spends more than 2.5 billion dollars on costumes, and 6 billion dolars if we count the candy.Halloween is the second most comercial holiday, after christmas.
Happy weekend!!
Halloween.
Guising is a habitual practice for the children in Halloween. children in suits of trip of house in house to ask for delicacies as candies. "Souling", where the children and the poor that sing and say prayers for the dead men in exchange for pastry.
what happened in haloween.
The history of the Halloween goes back to it does more than 2.500 years, when the Celtic year was ending at the end of the summer, precisely on October 31 of our calendar. The cattle was taken from the meadows to the stables for the winter. This last day, it was supposed that the spirits could go out of the cemeteries and to get hold of the bodies of the alive ones to revive. To avoid it, the Celtic settlements were dirtying the houses and "were" "decorating" them with bones, skulls and other disagreeable things, so that the dead men were happening from length scared. Of there there comes the tradition of decorating with sinister motives the houses in the current eve of all the saints and also the disguises.
NOW
The children go for the streets disguised as goblins, ghosts and demons, asking for sweets and delicacies the inhabitants of a dark and calm neighborhood.
Economic importance.
42 per cent of the money will come to blows of the informal trade, another 40 per cent will be for the big shops and with 15 per cent of the total to the small shops.
Properties of the pumpkins.
Rich in vitamin carotenoids, coumarins, lycopene and vitamin C.
Giovani
Halloween started 2000 years ago, the night of October 31 celebrated Halloween and the people believed that the dead returned as ghosts. Now people disguises and goes from House to House saying trick or treat to get candy and money. Now the name is Halloween but the real name is Hallow´s eve.
Souling and guising:
Trick-or-treating or Guising , is a customary practice for children on Halloween in many countries.
Tania Rodriguez 3D
Halloween is All Hallows' Evening also known as All Hallows' Eve is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31
Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating,attending costume parties,bobbing, visplaying pranks, tell scary stories.The origin of
Halloween is about 2000 years ago in the Celtic times.
Souling ang guising
The children say trick or treat for get sweets or money
Halloween today
Now Halloween lost the real mining,now Halloween is to get money with the sweets and costume.
Halloween begins on October 31, in that night was going from house to house saying trick or treating, there are stories of fear, horror movies are .....
On my other comment, in the part of "souling and guising", on the first line, i put "all SAINS day", but it was "all SOULS day", sorry.
-Pumpkin´s importance
The pumpkins first grew in México, but now grow in all the world.
The growers of United States produce 1.500.000.000 billion pounds of pumpkins every year.
-Pumpkin´s properties
The biggest pumpkin of the world weighs more than 1700 pounds.
A serving of pumpkin has 0.5 grams of fat, lots of potassium, vitamin A, and fiber.
A pumpkin has 500 seeds moreless.
In the 19th century people thought thet pumpkins could cure snake bites, freckles, facial wrinkles, diarrhea and constipation in cats and dogs and strangury in men.
There are 30 diferent varieties of pumpkins.
-Pumpkin´s & Halloween
You put it on your porch at nightfall for mischief makers have 14 hours of darkness to smash it.
HALLOWEEN.
Halloween or "All hallows" is celebrated for 2000 years ago,on october 31.
This becomes important festival in America when people spend a lot of money at this event.
TRICK-OR-TREATING
Trick-or-treating or "guising" is a customary celebration for children on Halloween.
PUMPKINS
Pumpkins is originated in Centra America. There are 30 varieties of pumpkins.
Soledad Oliveira.
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