SUBJECT: Hallowe’en.

LEVEL: beginners

TIME: 45 minutes
AIMS:
Language: to present new vocabulary, learn a poem by heart

Other: to introduce the children to aspects of English- speaking culture

MATERIALS: a poster with the instruction how to make a jack -o’- lantern (or a real pumpkin), flashcards of Hallowe’en words: a witch, a spider, a ghost,a bat, a skeleton, a death, a devil, a dragon, a mummy, a vampire, a monster; a poem
‘Jack-o’-Lantern’.

PROCEDURE:

1. Warm-up: The children guess the subject of the lesson by playing ‘Hangman’ game.
H A L L O W E E N

2. The teacher elicits from the children what they know about the festival, explains ‘trick or treat’ custom and shows how to make a jack- o’- lantern.
3. The teacher presents a poem ‘Jack-o’-lantern’. The children listen and repeat the
lines of the poem chorally and individually. Then write it down into their
notebooks and draw a jack-o-‘ lantern.

Jack-o’-Lantern
I’m sometimes big
I’m sometimes small
But always round and yellow.
When children fix my famous grin
Then I’m a scary fellow.

4. The teacher tells about a Halloween party, presents new vocabulary - Halloween
costumes using flashcards. The children repeat new words and copy them.
5. The children sing a song ’Ten Little Witches’( adaptation of ‘Ten Little Indians’)
6. The teacher gives the children homework:
a) learn the poem by heart
b) draw your favourite Halloween costume



SUBJECT: Hallowe’en.

LEVEL: beginners


TIME: 45 minutes

AIMS:
Language: to revise vocabulary (places, prepositions), to drill the structure
‘there is/are’, to practise reading for detail.
Other: co-operation between children, to exercise the children’s memory, to develop children’s creativity

MATERIALS: a poem ‘There is a dark, dark street..’; a poster ‘Monster Street’,
a grid for battleships game, realia: a box, a basket, a bottle,
flashcards: a house, a ghost

PROCEDURE:

1. Warm-up: The children in groups make up a crossword with the password:
HALLOWEEN( words in the crossword must refer to the festival). Then they refer their ideas to the whole class.
2. The teacher presents the poem using flashcards and realia. The children try to
memorise it saying it together with the teacher.

There is a dark, dark town
And in that dark, dark town
There is a dark, dark street
And in that dark, dark street
There is a dark, dark house
And in that dark, dark house
There is a dark, dark room
And in that dark, dark room
There is a dark, dark box
And in that dark, dark box
There is a dark, dark basket
And in that dark, dark basket
There is a dark, dark bottle
And in that dark, dark bottle
There is a
GHOST!!!!!!


3. The children work in groups with the poster ’Monster Street’ reading and looking for the answers to the questions placed at the bottom of the poster. Then they compare their answers with the whole class.
4. The children in pairs play a game ‘battleships’ using the grid prepared by the teacher. While playing they practise the structure ‘there is’.

S1: There is a witch in the ruins.
S2: Yes, there is./No, there isn’t.

The grid for a battleships game:


The castle
The haunted house
The ruins
The cave
The cellar
A ghost


A witch

A monster

A skeleton

A vampire

A black cat


5. Homework: Draw a picture and describe it using the structure ‘there is/are
( minimum 6 sentences)








SUBJECT: Hallowe’en.

LEVEL: beginners


TIME: 45 minutes

AIMS:
Language: revise ‘Halloween vocabulary’, questions and answers,
the structure ‘to be afraid of’
Other: co-operation, to develop culture awareness of English-speaking
countries

MATERIALS:’A Fear Survey’, ‘The Hallowe’en Quiz’

PROCEDURE:

1. Warm-up: brainstorming of vocabulary connected with the word ‘fear’.
The children collect such words as: scared, afraid of, terrified, spooky, haunted, frightened…

2. The class survey. The children individually fill in the following chart.

‘A FEAR SURVEY’
Are you afraid of …..?
YES
NO
1. Teachers


2. Tests


3. Darkness


4. Ghosts


5. Spiders


6. Stray dogs


7. Snakes


8. UFO


9. Thunder


10. Haunted houses


11. Dentists


12. Death



Then they sum up the results of the survey and report them to the whole class.
For example: 10 students from our class are afraid of teachers.
12 students are afraid of dentists.

3. ‘The Hallowe’en Quiz’. The teacher pre-teaches some vocabulary.The children in groups answer 7 questions. Then the teacher gives the correct answers and the children count up their scores. The group of winners get a prize.

THE HALLOWEEN QUIZ

1. When is Hallowe’en celebrated? (give the date) 1 point
2. What does exactly the name “Hallowe’en mean? 1 point
3. What do children say knocking on the door at Hallowe’en? 1 point
4. What do children do if you don’t give them anything? 1 point
5. What is a jack-o-‘lantern made of ? 1 point
6. What are two characteristic Hallowe’en colours? 2 points
7. Give 5 names of Hallowe’en costumes. 5 points
TOTAL: 12 points

4. Homework: Write the instruction ‘How to make a jack-o’- lantern’ by putting the words in the correct order.
a) a/take/pumpkin
b) its/cut/off/top
c) out/the/take/seeds
d) eyes/mouth/a/out/cut/nose/a/and
e) a/inside/put/candle
f) it/light/Halloween/night/on
g) your/in/put/jack-o’-lantern/the/window

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