VOCABULARY
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LISTENING ACTIVITY (check your answers in 'comments')
Exercise 1. Watch the video and write the exact day of each celebration:
1. All Saints Day
2. Samhain
3. All Hallows
4. All Hallows' Eve
5. All Souls day
6. Halloween
Exercise 2. Watch the video again and answer questions 1-4 .
1. Which of the customs below are celebrated during Halloween?
a) parades b) bobbing for apples c) giving presents d) trick or treating
2. What two things did people use to do at the night of 31st October? Why did they do it? a)...................................................................................................................................................................................................
b)...................................................................................................................................................................................................
3. What are the names of the following customs:
a) A custom during which needy people offer their prays for dead relatives in return for pastry, such as soul cakes, is called ….................... .
b) A custom during which young people dress up and accept food, wine or money in exchange for singing , reciting poetry or telling jokes is called …......................... .
4. Read the text and write a missing word
Halloween has become a family-friendly, kid-centred custom in ….................... . Since then it's been growing in popularity all over the world. It's estimated that on average US consumers spend round ….............. on costumes annually, and the remaining on …........................ . Making it the second most commercial holiday after …........................ .
DARK SHADOWS by Tim Burton
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'SMEE', A HORROR STORY
Listen to the story and take notes. Click here to read the story.
1 comment:
1. All Saints Day – 31st Oct
2. Samhain – 1st Nov
3. All Hallows- 31st Oct
4. All Hallows’ Eve- 1st Nov
5. All Souls day- 2nd Nov
6. Halloween – 31st Oct
1. Which of the customs below are celebrated during Halloween?
a) parades Answer: Yes
b) bobbing for apples Answer: Yes
c) giving presents Answer: No
d) trick or treating Answer: Yes
2. What two things did people use to do at the night of 31st October? Why did they do it?
a)…..Answer: put the food and wine at the doorstep to keep ghosts away ……………………
b)….Answer: wear masks when they left home so that they were mistaken for fellow ghosts …..
3. What are the names of the following customs:
a) A custom during which needy people offer their prays for dead relatives in return for pastry, such as soul cakes, is called …souling……….. .
b) A custom during which young people dress up and accept food, wine or money in exchange for singing , reciting poetry or telling jokes is called ….guising……….. .
4. Read the text and write a missing word
Halloween has become a family-friendly, kid-centred custom in …1950s..………. . Since then it’s been growing in popularity all over the world. It’s estimated that on average US consumers spend round ….$2.5 billion …… on costumes annually, and the remaining on …candy………….. . Making it the second most commercial holiday after …Christmas………..
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