HALLOWEEN

media type="custom" key="4652247"media type="custom" key="4652259" **History of Halloween** ** Halloween falls on October 31st each year in North America and other parts of the world. What do you know about Halloween? Do you celebrate it in your country? **Here is a little history about it.

Halloween:Cloze ActivityFill in the blanks below using words from the word bank

__DARK DARK TALE__ media type="custom" key="5379583" align="center" = Halloween Vocabulary from the //English Page// =


 * ** Halloween ** ||  || N. a holiday celebrated on October 31 in which people dress in scary costumes ||
 * ** to carve ** ||  || V. to cut with a large knife ||
 * ** pumpkin ** ||  || N. a large, orange vegetable associated with Halloween ||
 * ** Jack-o-lantern ** ||  || N. Americans traditionally cut out scary faces in pumpkins and put a candle inside. These pumpkins with faces are called "Jack-o-lanterns." Jack-o-lanterns are made to scare away evil spirits on Halloween. ||
 * ** costume ** ||  || N. scary clothing or disguises worn on Halloween ||
 * ** "trick or treat" ** ||  || On Halloween, children go from house to house and say "trick or treat." This phrase means give me candy or I will play a trick on you. Families usually give the children candy. If the children don't get candy, they sometimes play mean tricks like breaking the house's Jack-o-lantern or putting soap on its windows. ||
 * ** a costume party ** ||  || N. a party where everyone dresses in scary costumes ||
 * ** bobbing for apples ** ||  || This is a traditional Halloween game. You put apples in a barrel of water and people try to take the floating apples out of the water using only their mouths. ||
 * ** a skeleton ** ||  || N. a body of nothing but bones ||
 * ** a ghost ** ||  || N. the spirit of a dead person which appears again ||
 * ** a ghoul ** ||  || N. an evil spirit which takes bodies from graves and eats them ||
 * ** a goblin ** ||  || N. an unkind spirit which plays tricks on people ||
 * ** a witch ** ||  || N. a woman with magic powers (usually evil) ||
 * ** a warlock ** ||  || N. a man with magic powers (usually evil) ||
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 * ** a skeleton ** ||  || N. a body of nothing but bones ||
 * ** a ghost ** ||  || N. the spirit of a dead person which appears again ||
 * ** a ghoul ** ||  || N. an evil spirit which takes bodies from graves and eats them ||
 * ** a goblin ** ||  || N. an unkind spirit which plays tricks on people ||
 * ** a witch ** ||  || N. a woman with magic powers (usually evil) ||
 * ** a warlock ** ||  || N. a man with magic powers (usually evil) ||
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 * ** a goblin ** ||  || N. an unkind spirit which plays tricks on people ||
 * ** a witch ** ||  || N. a woman with magic powers (usually evil) ||
 * ** a warlock ** ||  || N. a man with magic powers (usually evil) ||
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 * ** a warlock ** ||  || N. a man with magic powers (usually evil) ||
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= Halloween Adjectives =
 * ** cackling ** ||  || to make an evil, witch-like laughing sound ||
 * ** evil ** ||  || very bad in thought and behavior ||
 * ** gruesome ** ||  || terribly shocking and sickening (often describes an act or event) ||
 * ** haunted ** ||  || containing evil spirits or ghosts (usually describes a building or location) ||
 * ** hideous ** ||  || describes something which is so sickening and ugly that you can't look at it ||
 * ** horrified ** ||  || very shocked and scared ||
 * ** howling ** ||  || making a long, loud cry like a wolf or a dog ||
 * ** possessed ** ||  || controlled by an evil spirit or ghost (usually describes a person) ||
 * ** shrieking ** ||  || sounding like a high-pitched, terrified screaming ||
 * ** wicked ** ||  || very bad or evil (often associated with witches) ||
 * ** horrified ** ||  || very shocked and scared ||
 * ** howling ** ||  || making a long, loud cry like a wolf or a dog ||
 * ** possessed ** ||  || controlled by an evil spirit or ghost (usually describes a person) ||
 * ** shrieking ** ||  || sounding like a high-pitched, terrified screaming ||
 * ** wicked ** ||  || very bad or evil (often associated with witches) ||
 * ** shrieking ** ||  || sounding like a high-pitched, terrified screaming ||
 * ** wicked ** ||  || very bad or evil (often associated with witches) ||
 * ** wicked ** ||  || very bad or evil (often associated with witches) ||
 * ** wicked ** ||  || very bad or evil (often associated with witches) ||

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