Halloween is celebrated on October 31st and originated from Celtic traditions in Scotland and Ireland. People believed the souls of the dead returned to earth on Halloween. Today, Halloween traditions include dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating where children go door-to-door collecting candy, and carving pumpkins into lanterns to ward off evil spirits or decorate homes. Common Halloween foods are toffee apples and sweets.

1. Halloween

2. When is Halloween?
Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October
Where does Halloween come from?
Halloween comes from Scotland and Ireland. It
is based on the beliefs of people in Celtic
speaking countries.
What did people think happened at Halloween?
The souls of the dead came back to earth.

3. • The name ‘Halloween’
comes from the term
‘All Hallow’s Eve’.
• All Saints Day," or "All
Hallows Day" was the
next Day, Nov. 1st.
Therefore, Halloween is
the eve of All Saints
Day.

4. What do people do to celebrate
Halloween?
• People dress up in
costumes, for example:
witches, ghosts,
vampires.
• Adults dress up and go
to parties with their
friends.
• The children go trick-or-
treating.

5. Why did people put a
lantern outside their house
at Halloween?
People put a lantern
outside their house to
frighten evil spirits
Today, Halloween lanterns
are made from pumpkins!!
What is a pumpkin?
A pumpkin is a fruit.

6. Halloween games
• Apple bobbing- there is
a tub full of water with
apples in it and you
have to try to get the
apples out with your
mouth.
• Visiting scary haunted
houses at Halloween is
also very popular.

7. Halloween food
• At Halloween people eat toffee apples
and lots of sweets.

8. Complete these sentences using verbs from the
box:
• 1.
• _______________ Halloween
• 2.
• _______________ a lantern
• 3.
• _______________ apple bobbing
• 4.
• _______________ as a witch
• 5.
• _______________ a costume
• 6.
• _______________ trick or treating
• 7.
• _______________ a party
• 8.
• _______________ a film
dress up
wear
go
go to
celebrate
play
watch
light

9. Questions
• Do you celebrate Halloween?
• What Halloween character would you dress
up as, and why?
• Why do you think Halloween is so popular?

10. Now lets do a Halloween
Quiz!
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