HALLOWEEN 8C KL

after :

• reading some information
• watching a video about Halloween,
• answering the questions
• working individually or in pairs,

CREATE a short text about Halloween

(not less than 7 sentences)

using the new words / expressions and the plan.

Checking vocabulary (HW)

Write the correct word:

1.On Halloween celebration in the ... of night you can meet witches.

(centre, beginning, dead)

2.The horror movie was about ... vampires.

(magic, spine-chilling, horse-raising/

3. On Halloween I met a... monster.

(tender, hair-raising, blood)

4.The clown was with a ... face

(far away, tear-away, take-away)

5. Tender lumplings are ...

- small sheep

- innocent kids

- beautiful flowers

6.The witch has got ... teeth.

(ground-sharp, oval-sharp, square- sharp)

7. Playing snake-and ladders children ... the dice.

(touch, roll, drop)

8.Even though people wear scary costumes on Halloween, nobody dies of ... .

(horrible, afraid, fright)

9. On Halloween children ... a pumpkin song.

(tell, hail, shout)

Halloween

the night of 31st October when it was believed in the past that dead people appeared from their graves, and which is now celebrated in the USA, Canada and Britain by children who dress as ghosts, witches

Typical festive Halloween activities include:

• trick-or-treating (or the related "guising"),
• attending costume parties,
• decorating,
• carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns,
• lighting bonfires,
• apple bobbing,
• visiting haunted house attractions,
• playing pranks,
• telling scary stories and watching horror films

Pre-watching

• light - už(si)degti

• bonfire - laužas
• to light bonfires

• ward off - atremti (puolimą); apsisaugoti
• ward off ghosts - apsisaugoti nuo vaiduoklių

• roam - klajoti
• roaming spirits

• guise - apdaras, drabužiai

• in the guise of / under the guise of- prisidengęs, apsimetęs (kuo)

• guising - wearing a mask and a costume -pakeitęs išvaizdą, persirengęs (kad nepažintų)

• soul cakes - pastries given for the promise to pray for the dead relatives - pyragaičiai, vaišes

• pray - maldauti, prašyti

• souling - begging for a treat

išmaldos prašymas

1.What were the first names of Halloween? Where was it celebrated first?

2.What were the beliefs about the dead?

3.Why did people keep food and wine on the door steps?

4.Why do people wear masks on Halloween ?

5.What does "going souling" mean?

6. What activities are held on Halloween night?

Plan

1.The name, date, place

2.The reason for celebration

3.Activities, costumes, decorations

4.Food

5.Feelings

6. ACTIVITIES:

• Parades in the streets.
• Young people play trick-or-treating.
• Children play a bobbing for apples game.
• People light bonfires.

5.People give children pastries called "soul cakes" for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives.

4.They want to hide themselves from ghosts, to avoid being recognised

3.They wanted to protect their houses from ghosts by treating roaming spirits. To keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to prevent them from ghosts attempting to enter.

Questions:

2. People belived that the dead returned to the earthy life as ghosts or roaming spirits.

1

• Samhain (pronounced sow-in)
• All Hallow's Eve
• the USA, Canada, Britain

Oxford Advanced Learner's

The definition from a dictionary

1.On Halloween celebration in the dead of night you can meet witches.

2.The horror movie was about spine-chilling vampires.

3. At Halloween night I met a hair-raising monster.

4.The clown was with a tear-away face.

5.Tender lumplings are little kids.

6.The witch has got ground-sharp teeth.

before All Saints' night

hail a pumpkin song

sveikinti, šūktelėti, (pa)šaukti

to meet a banshee

banshee - šmėkla, kurios riksmas pranašauja mirtį

pumpkin patch

patch - a small piece of land, especially used for growing vegetables

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

HALLOWEEN

every 31st October

In Lithuania

The Day of the Dead

or

The Day of the Souls

on 1st November

play trick or treat

play tricks on sb

die of fright

eyes glowing red

glow - švytėti, žėrėti, spindėti

fill dreams to the brim with fright

brim - kraštas, briauna

fright- išgąstis, išsigandimas

tender lumplings

tender - švelnus

a lumpling - a young innocent child

teeth ground sharp

grind - galąsti; tekinti; šlifuoti

roll the dice

dice- kauliukas

gone without a trace

trace - pėdsakas

in the dead of night -

in the middle of the night or in the middle of winter

the clown with a tear-away face

tear away

remove violently' - atplėšti, nuplėšti

Someone's waiting to pounce

pounce

staiga (už)pulti/mestis/(už)šokti

Someone's slimy

slimy

gleivėtas, glitus; slidus

dreadful

hair-raising, horrible, horrifying, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying

spine-chilling

šiurpus, šiurpulingas

creepy

baisus; keliantis baimę;šliaužiantis, ropojantis

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

• bob - gaudyti lūpomis (obuolius vandenyje, kabančias vyšnias; žaidimas
• play a bobbing for apples game/ to bob for apples/

play apple bobbing

The history of Halloween

The goal of the lesson is :

All Hallows’ Eve

later

Halloween

HALLOWEEN