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(Updated on 20/09/2011)


 

 


History
- Superstitions -
Cliparts and Flashcards
- Vocabulary - Listening -
Interactive exercises
- Exercises to print -

Lesson plans
- Webquests -
Interactive games - Games to print -
Stories
- Idioms and Proverbs - Songs and Poems -
Cards
- Cartoons - Videos - Recipes
- Safety

 


Related pages :

Superstitions (vocabulary and activities)
Superstitions (civilization)
Magic
- Zombies - Ghosts - Vampires

 

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

 

  • Halloween - Mystery Eyes - Who do the eyes belong to ?
    "There are two skill levels available."
    (Permet l'utilisation du cas possessif.)
    (teachchildrenesl.com)

 

 

  • Where are the ghosts ? (bogglesworldesl.com)
    "In the kitchen, on the stove. This information gap covers prepositions, furniture and rooms in a house."
    (Haunted House Gap A + Haunted House Gap B)


    (Click on the picture)


  • Halloween "Fill-in-the-Blanks" Exercise - (vocabulary.com)
    "This activity is NOT interactive but the answers are at the bottom of this page...
    Word bank for the matching sentences... (alphabetically):
    cackle, cauldron, cemetery, coven, crypt, curse, lycanthrope, macabre, miasma, petrify, phantasm, superstition."
  • Select the definition that most nearly defines the given word. (edhelper.com)
    Match each definition with a word.


  • Halloween Vocabulary Quiz (johnsesl.com)
    - "Match the definitions in the right column with the correct word in the left column.
    There are more definitions than words."
  • Kinds of monsters - (bogglesworldesl.com)
    "Students use the relative clause "is a monster that" to define Halloween monsters." (.doc)

 

  • A Quiz on Halloween Words: Grades 2-3 (enchantedlearning.com)
    " A word scavenger hunt for students in Grades 2-3, using the Little Explorers Picture Dictionary."

  • Halloween Analogies - exercise (rhlschool.com) :
    ex : "Driver is to car as witch is to _______________. ( hat / scare / broom / spell )"

 

Lesson plans :

  • Halloween - niveau A1/A1+ (Ac. Toulouse) - UPDATED
    "Cette séquence est exposée ici sur le thème d’Halloween mais elle est transférable sur d’autres fêtes du calendrier anglo-saxon :
    Guy Fawkes Night, Thanksgiving, St Patrick’s Day..."

  • What do Halloween costumes say ? - a lesson plan
    "This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them."

    (tolerance.org)



    Objectives :

    • Students will examine and understand the use of stereotypes and biases in visual media.
    • Students will use viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
    • Students will use listening and speaking strategies in small group and class discussions.
    • Students will use the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
    • Students will contribute to the overall effort of a group.


Stereotypes at Halloween
(tolerance.org)

  • Witches and wizards
    "Here you can test your your magical knowledge, or make up a spell.
    Find out what happened when Billy and Tom tried to make a magic potion out of dead flies and smelly socks, and have fun singing the "Abracadabra!" song."

    (British Council)

 

  • Production écrite en classe de sixième - Projet pédagogique : le conte et ses personnages
    "Monica Curnelle, professeur d'anglais au Collège Gaston Domergue à Sommières dans le Gard vous présente un projet pédagogique complet,
    menée en interdisciplinarité avec le professeur de français. Le projet s'inscrit sur plusieurs séquences permet d'aborder plusieurs aspects linguistiques et culturels...
    Les élèves abordent Halloween et Christmas en passant par le Gingerbread Man, Shrek et le film The Nightmare before Christmas de Tim Burton avant d'écrire
    et illuster leur propres contes en anglais et fabriquer, et déguster, des Gingerbread Men!"
    (Ac. Montpellier)
  • Halloween Quiz - Présentation PowerPoint Présentation corrigée
    proposé par Laetitia Stuelsatz (Ac. Martinique)

    Cliquer sur "Lecture seule"

 

  • Halloween Lesson Plans (LessonPlansPage.com)

  • Halloween (British Council)
    Halloween words / Halloween costumes / Quiz / Paint it / The scary skeleton (a song) /
    The magic spell (story) / The haunted house (story) / A howling Halloween (story) / More activities about Hallowe'en...

  • Halloween People, Places, and Things - a lesson plan :
    "These lists can be used in different ways. They can be duplicated and cut crosswise into strips..."
    (teachervision.fen.com)

  • Halloween Teaching Theme (teach-nology.com)
    Coloring / Writing Sheets - Recipes - Songs - Downloads - Vocabulary Builders - Games - Web Quests - Lesson Plans - Worksheets

 

  • Halloween pour 4ème (Durée : 1 heure) - (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
  • Ressources : Lesson Plans & Units | Arts & Crafts | Songs & Poems (atozteacherstuff.com)

 

 

Webquests :

  • History of Halloween (stbern.com)
    - "A Web Quest about the history of Halloween and other scary phenomenons...
    This Halloween Web Quest will help you answer the following questions:
    Do you know why we celebrate Halloween?
    Do you believe in ghosts?
    Throughout this Web Quest you will discover how the present day "Halloween" came about.
    You will also see some video clips that just might make you believe in the supernatural..."

 

  • Halloween Teaching Theme (teach-nology.com)
    Coloring / Writing Sheets - Recipes - Songs - Downloads - Vocabulary Builders - Games - Web Quests - Lesson Plans - Worksheets

 

  • A Quiz on Halloween Words: Grades 2-3 (enchantedlearning.com)
    " A word scavenger hunt for students in Grades 2-3, using the Little Explorers Picture Dictionary."

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

 

  • Some photos may be shocking.

    Halloween: Vocabulary.
    "This is a shop in NY, you can buy a costume anytime! It's fun to visit."
    + Interactive games
    Created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

 

  • Interactive Game - Halloween with Wendy the Witch
    "Revise some vocabulary related to Halloween and hobbies and "likes and dislikes" with Wendy the Witch!"

    NOTE : this game does not work with Mozilla Firefox.
    Read the RULES before playing.
    Created by Laurence Haquet (Ac. Rouen)

 

  • Halloween Jumbled Sentences - interactive
    (legacy.lclark.edu)

  • HALLOWEEN
    Flashcards | Guess the Costume cards/game | Vampire Fashions card game | Word Find | Halloween Jigsaws

    (englishraven.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Halloween safety game (halloweenmagazine.com)
    "If you are going to go door to door trick-or-treating, you should play.
    First, you will read the Safety Guidelines for Halloween.
    As you begin your journey, you will be given 2 or more choices. Choose the safest thing to do.
    It's fun and easy, (if you pay attention)."





  • Halloween - Games - Different levels - with SOUND (marks-english-school.com)

  • Halloween. Hangman - Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

 

  • Pumpkin - Create your pumpkin (kindersite.org)

 

 

Games TO PRINT :

 

 

 

 

Stories :

  • "Sister Mary Dracula"

    Gerry Mooney is the creator of the Flash animation "Sister Mary Dracula".
    He says : "  I've created a graphic novel about the same characters and as a special treat the whole story is posted online just for the Halloween season.
    It's 103 pages and expands the story that I began in the animation."


    Read the story. (Click on the right hand)
    Watch the Flash animation.

    See the sketchbook.

    (sistermarydracula.com)

     

  • Jack and the Jack O Lantern  - This simple story tells the origin of the Jack O Lantern. 
    (vygotsky.ced.appstate.edu)

  • Halloween (Symbol World)

 

  • Halloween (British Council)
    The magic spell (story) / The haunted house (story) / A howling Halloween (story) / More activities about Hallowe'en...

 

  • Halloween Tale,
    "an interactive Flash story, allows children to participate in the story experience. (alfy.com)
    Children strengthen their listening comprehension skills and learn to follow simple auditory instructions." (dès la 6ème)
    CLICK ON "PLAY A GAME" ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE.



  • Spooky Night - Fill in the blanks to customize this short haunting tale (dès la 5ème) - (chaosatlanta)

 

 

Idioms and Proverbs :

 

Songs and Poems :

Halloween Songs: "This is Halloween" By Marilyn Manson - Prepositions Gap Fill

Halloween Songs: "The Monster Mash" By Bobby Pickett - Past Tense Verbs Gap Fill

Halloween Songs: "Could it Be Magic?" By Take That - Gap Fill Writing Exercise
WITH VIDEOS
(esolcourses.com)

 

 

 

  • Halloween Sounds - animated :
    "This is the way the witches fly
    Swish, swish, swish..."

    (ananedu.com)

 

  • This Is Halloween Sing Along
    It Is The Song Of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

    - WITH the LYRICS
    (YouTube)

 

  • Vampire - by Antsy Pants (YouTube)
    + LYRICS
    "I am a vampire
    I have lost my fangs...
    I have lost my mouth organ"

    (songs-lyrics.net)

  • Knock Knock Trick or Treat - Lyrics and Actions + Video
    (supersimplesongs.com)

  • Halloween Songs
    - Walking in the Night
    - I’m dressing up for Halloween
    - I’m a crazy witch
    - Five little pumpkins
    - Pumpkin Pumpkin
    - I Shut the Door
    - The Very Scary Spider
    (rainbowsongs.com)

 

  • Halloween - Helloween :
    "Masquerade, masquerade
    Grab your mask and don't be late
    Get out get out well disguised...
    The spirits will arise"

    (metrolyrics.com)

  • Halloween Party a song by Sue Schnitzer
    Watch the video and listen to the song...
    Off to the game!

    Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

 


 

 

  • Halloween poems (tripod.com)




  • Halloween - site-ressource : History - Traditions - Quiz - Films - Rhymes... (web.tiscali.it)

 

Cards :

 

 

 

Cartoons :

 

Videos :

 

 

 

  • SISTER MARY DRACULA :

    • "Sister Mary Dracula"

      Gerry Mooney is the creator of the Flash animation "Sister Mary Dracula".
      He says : "  I've created a graphic novel about the same characters and as a special treat the whole story is posted online just for the Halloween season.
      It's 103 pages and expands the story that I began in the animation."


      Read the story. (Click on the right hand)
      Watch the Flash animation.

      See the sketchbook.

      (sistermarydracula.com)




    • Sister Mary Dracula - an animation (mooneyart.com)

  • Some photos may be shocking.

    Choose your Halloween costume in NYC
    (photopeach.com)

 

 

 

Recipes :

 

 

Safety :

 

 

  • Halloween safety game (halloweenmagazine.com)
    "If you are going to go door to door trick-or-treating, you should play.
    First, you will read the Safety Guidelines for Halloween.
    As you begin your journey, you will be given 2 or more choices. Choose the safest thing to do.
    It's fun and easy, (if you pay attention)."