WITCHES 

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Witches are said to have magical powers. They often use these magical powers to cast spells over others. In early modern times, it was common to blame witches for bad luck and misfortune. “Witch trials”, events where local citizens were accused of practicing witchcraft and put on trial before the community, were held in towns across Europe and the early United States. Currently, we imagine witches as wearing pointy hats and black, ragged robes, and spending their time riding broomsticks, keeping black cats as pets, and concocting magic potions over large cauldrons.

    

   

Five little pumpkins

HALLOWEEN RECIPE Pumpkin Soup Ingredients: • a pumpkin • 2 cans soup of your choice Directions: 1. simply prepare a jack-o-lantern with the pumpkin, except for you don't cut a face. 2. make the soup and pour it in the pumpkin 3. And there you have it! Easiest directions you'll ever get.

Halloween is the funniest and the most scary celebration of them all. Is it a night where we are supposed to worship ghosts or the dead of the earth or is it a christian celebration that has turned into something weird?

 

HALLOWEEN LISTENING EXERCISES

	Halloween vocabulary
	What's that?/Is that ~?
	What are you going to do for Halloween?
	What did you do last Halloween?

TEACHER: HALLOWEEN FLASHCARDS  for teaching vocabulary from  Lanternfish ESL

In the basic game, students ask simple questions like, "Do you have a witch?", "Do you have a ghost?", and "Doyou have a skeleton?". In the intermediate game, students ask questions like, "Do you have a witch flying on a broomstick?", "Do you have a ghost at a haunted house?", and "Do you have a skeleton dancing in a cemetery?".

The vocabulary taught is as follows:

A ghost at a haunted house. A skeleton dancing in a cemetery. A witch flying on a broomstick. Spiders in a cobweb. A mummy in a tomb. Goblins around a hollow tree. A headless horseman with a jack-o'-lantern. An alien in a cornfield. A scarecrow in a pumpkin patch. A boy dressed as a pirate. A girl dressed as a witch. A clown carving a pumpkin. Some kids trick-or-treating. A black cat on the roof. A bat on a grave. A vampire in a coffin. A werewolf howling at the moon. A boy wearing a devil's mask. Some kids at a Halloween party. 

How to Use These Flashcards

Go Fish: Print of two (or four) sets of cards. Paste the cards on a cardboard backing and cut them out. Students take turning asking each other if they have cards: Do you have some children trick-or-treating? Old Maid: Print off four sets of each card other than the old witch. Print off one old witch. Put all of the cards on cardboard backing and play old maid. Memory or Concentration: Print off two sets of cards and put them on cardboard backing. Lay the cards on the table face down. Students take turns turning two cards over at a time. If they get a pair they get to keep it and the pair counts as 1 point. 

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The Old Witch (For Old Maid)

GAMES Do you like playing computer games? Click on the pumpkin and play .

HAPPY HALLOWEEN IT'S HALLOWEEN !