Halloween Activities

Halloween Vocabulary Picture Quiz
Match the words with the pictures:
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/uk-english-picture-quiz.html


Halloween Alphabetical Order
Sort these Halloween words into aplphabetical order:
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/alphabetical-order.html


Spelling Halloween Words
Unscramble these jumbled Halloween words:
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/spelling.html

Halloween Vocabulary

 


 bat

bonfire toffee

candies

coffin

ghost

pumpkin

pumpkin pie

skeleton

spider

sweets

witch

Halloween

Halloween, also known as Hallowe'en, Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween has its origins in pagan festivals in the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The very word “Halloween” has Christianic origins and means "hallowed evening" or "holy evening". Regarding the historical background of the festival, people thought that during that period, the spirits of the dead were supposed to come alive and walk among the living. Therefore, they used to wear different kinds of costumes so as to protect themselves from those spirits when walking outside.

Halloween Today

On October 31, people gather together and hold parties to celebrate the Halloween festival or watch horror movies either at home or in the cinema. Common costumes that people wear for the festival are ghosts, skeletons, vampires, witches and other scary suits and the main symbols of Halloween are jack-o'-lanterns which are carved pumpkins with monstrous faces, spiders and bats.  Another common tradition associated with this festival is “Trick or Treat”. Many children dress up in different costumes and visit other people’s homes. They knock on their doors asking for some treat (candies or other sweets) and those who refuse to do so get some kind of a trick instead.

Traditional Food

As regards the traditional food of this particular day, according to certain Western Christian religious groups people should avoid to eat meat during that day and should prefer vegetarian food instead. Some types of food associated with Halloween are candy and caramel apples, bonfire toffee, pumpkin pie, soul cakes.

 

Here you can watch a video summarizing the main points regarding the Halloween festival, the associated traditions and customs.

For further information on Halloween festival and its traditions, you can visit http://www.history.com/topics/halloween.

Welcome

Welcome everybody!

My name is Vasiliki Achladioti and I am an English language teacher. This particular blog will present different aspects of the English culture. The main objective is to enhance students´ knowledge of the English culture  and give them a closer look at English way of living, customs, people and lifestyle through watching videos, learning new vocabulary or doing exercises about different cultural features. The blog can be used by either students or other teachers who want to incorporate its material in their class.