What are your associations with Halloween?

Say what you see in the pictures.

Watch the video about the history of Halloween and answer the questions!

 

1. Who celebrated Halloween first? When did they do it?
2. What did they celebrate on the 1^st of November?
3. What did they believe would happen the night before?
4. Why did they celebrate the festival of Samhain? What did they do?
5. What does the word ‘Halloween’ mean?

Say if these statements are true or false

1. 98% of Americans decorate their homes on Halloween.
2. Halloween is the first most commercially successful holiday.
3. Black cats get bad rap on Halloween because they are believed to belong to dark powers.
4. In England white cats (not black ones) are believed to be bad luck.
5. Traditional Halloween colors are red and black.
6. Another name of the holiday is the Feast of the Dead.
7. The celebration dates back some 2,000 years.
8. Pumpkin is a vegetable.

Answers

1. (F. 86%)
2. (F. Christmas is number one)
3. (T)
4. (T)
5. (F. They are orange and black)
6. (T)
7. (T. The Celts were the first to celebrate the event)
8. (F. It’s a fruit related to melons)

 

Sing along the song ‘This is Halloween’!

[SHADOW]
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?

[SIAMESE SHADOW]
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

[PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

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

[CREATURE UNDER THE BED]
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

[MAN UNDER THE STAIRS]
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

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

Sing the songs