Halloween

by Deborah Healey

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Vocabulary (intermediate)

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tradition trick or treat costume	jack-o'-lantern pumpkin carve
skeleton bones rattle	haunted house scary frightening
witch broom, broomstick	ghost, spirit haunt goblin

Vocabulary Discussion

Have you ever seen a ghost?

What do you do on this holiday?

On-computer tasks

• (low intermediate-advanced) Visit the virtual haunted house. Take notes on what you see.
  
• (low intermediate-advanced) Choose the Halloween Postcards. When it is finished loading, click on each card to make it bigger. You'll see old-fashioned Halloween postcards from almost 100 years ago! Write a Halloween postcard to a friend describing the haunted house.
  
• (low intermediate-advanced) Plan a Halloween party; write invitations describing the frightening things you will see and do. Use a spreadsheet to do a budget for the party.
  
• (intermediate to advanced) Go to the Haunted House and click on MadLibs. You need to print out the list, give the appropriate part of speech, then fill in the blanks on paper. This is good practice with parts of speech. Make sure you share the results!
  
• (advanced) Write a ghost story.
  

Post-computer task

• Discuss whether you have a holiday like Halloween; the strangest thing you saw; and what you would wear to go trick-or-treating.
  
• Write a ghost story and illustrate it.
  
• Describe and draw the costume you would wear to a Halloween party.
  
• Summarize a ghost story for the class.
  
• Learn and tell a ghost story, using as many of the vocabulary items above as possible.