Happy Halloween (31st October)

If you want to know about Halloween, here you are the link to wikipedia: click here. Another posibility is to hear (or read) this introduction (especially for NI1) to the topic: click here. Here you have some funny activities just in case you are interested in the topic:

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL:

• a short video with vocabulary of the topic; click here or this one
• a video about the history of Halloween: click here and also here

ADVANCE LEVEL:

• some idioms about "dead": click here
• if you want to know something about this festivity related to history, go to this link or to this alternative one
• this link is rather difficult but it's quite interesting, with ghost stories and videos with the text below, so you can use them for both reading and for listening; click here

This is an exercise of listening. Although they say it is for advanced students, there is a simpler version. Have a try and click here.

If you have children, there are lots of sites on the internet to get ideas. These are a couple of them:

• http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/category/topics/halloween : a page for learning English for children.
• http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/halloween: a page for activities and crafts with children
• these are very simple songs for children: click here or here. This song is with a skeleton but it helps children to revise parts of the body; click here
• some jokes about Halloween: click here

But Halloween is famous for its parties, which are not only for kids but also for adults. If you are thinking of organising a party you might visit these sites:

• For adults: you have this or this
• For kids: this is one and this is another one

I hope to be helpful for all of you. Have fun and enjoy Halloween!

Preparing and writing stories for Halloween

One of the most typical things in Halloween is to tell horror stories, something scary, spooky. Sometimes the story is really short, like the ones you can find on this site, but if you really like this sort of stories here you have a page which includes many of this kind; click here

There is going to be a competition of scary tales in class. If you want to take part, write a spooky story no longer than 150-200 words. Here you have some help to do it:

• a PDF with questions to help you with the story: click here
• this is another link with steps to be followed while to write your spooky story: click here

Good luck for everybody!