HALLOWEEN

Here you are some activities to celebrate Halloween day.

"This Is Halloween"

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Boys and girls             every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come                   us and you will see
This our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream               the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die                  fright
It's our town, everybody scream
                 this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding                your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders                  my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail                   the pumpkin song

             this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

                that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll scream!

This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green
Aren't you scared?
Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon                the dead of night

Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Halloween

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here             a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing                 your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town
Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everybody scream
Won't ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]


Hallloween quiz vocabulary

TOMORROW WE CELEBRATE...."GUY FAWKES' DAY"

Also known as "Bonfire night", British people celebrate "Guy Fawkes' day" on November 5th. Want to learn more? Then check the video...

HALLOWEEN QUIZ/VOCABULARY

What do you know about Halloween? How did it start? What do people do? 
Try this quiz, Read the sentences and decide if they are true or false. 
True or False? 
1. Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the night of 31st October, the night before All Saint’s Day.
2. In England Halloween was called ‘All Hallow’s Eve’.
3. On Halloween night all evil spirits stayed at home.
4. Halloween is based on an ancient Celtic holiday and the name ‘Halloween’ means ‘Winter’s End’.
5. In past times people put lamps or lanterns outside their houses to keep away evil spirits.
6. People believed that witches, ghosts and goblins went around at night looking for a living body!
7. On Halloween people dressed up as ghosts and witches so that the spirits would not steal their body!
8. Nowadays people put pumpkins with faces in their houses.
9. The pumpkin is sometimes called the ‘Jack-o-lantern’.
10. ‘Trick or treat’ is a game children play at Halloween to play
jokes (trick) or get sweets (treat).

1. h o g t s = ghost     6. t I I s r s p =
2. c s w t e i h =    7. c a b l k     t a c =
3. b i g l o n =      8. n l o s e e k t =
4. r n e l t n a =    9. e h u t a d n =
5. k i p m n u p =    10. k t c i r    r o    e t t a r

Now click on the link and read the information about Halloween
http://www.abcteach.com/free/r/rc_elementary_halloween_origins.pdf
=http://courses.unt.edu/ttaylor/Holidays/Halloween%20Reading.htm

HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY FOR 4º ESO DIVERSIFICACIÓN

HALLOWEEN IS COMING

What do you know about Halloween?. Here you are some links to get some information about this spooky festivity.

VIDEO ON HALLOWEEN

APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Today they celebrate April fool's day, what we know in Spain as "Día de los Santos Inocentes". On this day people play joke, tricks or pranks on friends or family.
Here you are some links where you can learn some vocabulary about jokes and also some jokes or tricks people usually play on this day.

                                                              Video on vocabulary about jokes

                                                                    Video on practical jokes

CELEBRATING SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

Tomorrow, it's Saint Patrick's day, the patron saint of Ireland. But what do you know about Saint Patrick and this festivity. Take a look¡¡¡

Video on an Irish dance or "jigs" as they call it

Short video about the special celebrations on this day

Film about Saint Patrick

Enlace recursos sobre San Patricio

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Valentine's day is just round the corner. Everyone knows about the traditions on this day, but what do you know about the origins of this festivity?. Who was Valentine? 

Here you are a reading where you can learn about the story of Valentine and also a video with some romantic scenes taken from well-known movies.

Happy Valentine's day 

 HOW HOLLYWOOD SAYS " I LOVE YOU"

(Podéis activar los subtítulos en la barra inferior de Youtube)

Saint Valentine’s Day is on the 14^th of February. 

People all around the world write cards for their boyfriends or girlfriends on this day.  Lots of people buy flowers and other gifts on St. Valentines Day. 

But why do we have this day?  Who was the first Valentine?  This is the story of Saint Valentine.

                           

About 1700 years ago there was a man called Valentine. 

He was a priest.  He liked to see young people in love. 

He wanted people to get married because he wanted them to have a family.   

                                 

But the Emperor Claudius didn’t want men to get married. 

He wanted men to fight in the army.

He wanted more soldiers. 

Valentine didn’t agree. 

He helped men and women to get married in secret. 

Emperor Claudius didn’t know about this.

When Claudius heard the story of Valentine, he was

very angry.  He put Valentine in jail for 20 years. 

After twenty years, Claudius killed Valentine on February 14th.

Everybody thought Valentine was a good man because he helped lovers.  That’s why we have St. Valentine’s Day every year.

Part B:       True or False.

1.         Valentine was an emperor.                                

2.         Valentine died on     February 14^th.                                  

3.         Claudius wanted men to get married.                          

4.         Claudius put Valentine in jail.                                     

5.         Valentine was in jail for forty years.                            

6.         Valentine helped people to get married.                                

Part C:        Answer Yes or No.

1.         Was Valentine a priest?                                       

2.         Did Claudius want people to get married?     

3.         Did Claudius want women to be soldiers?                                         

4.         Did Claudius put Valentine in jail?                                         

5.         Was Valentine an emperor?                                                       

6.         Did Valentine help people to be soldiers?                               

Part D:       Answer the questions.  (Write full sentences please.)

1.         Why did Valentine want people to get married?                   

                       

2.         When did Valentine live?

3.         What did Valentine help people to do?                                   

Remember,remember,the 5th of November

¿Sabes que se celebra hoy en el Reino Unido?

Hoy celebran "Bonfire night", la noche de la hoguera. ¿Pero sabes cuales son los orígenes de esta tradición?. A continuación os dejo un enlace donde podéis aprender algo más sobre esta festividad.

http://www.kico4u.de/english/topicotw/guyfaw.htm