WP 2 Celebrations Halloween

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Agrupamento de Escolas de Santiago do Cacm

Escola Bsica Frei Andr da Veiga School Year 2012/2013

1. Complete the crossword puzzle below about Halloween.


12

7 8

5 9 6 3

13

10

11

Across: 1. The witchs means of transport. 4. Its white and scares kids. 6. The witchs pet. 8. Comes out at night, has long teeth and drinks human blood. 10. to frighten people 11. The colour of the pumpkin 13. What you wear at Halloween.

Down: 2. Bones that make up a person. 3. Its orange and is used to make scary faces. 5. The month Halloween is celebrated on. 7. When somebody doesn't give you candy, you play... 9. Used to light up the pumpkins. 12. an old ugly lady who casts spells 13. Its sweet and children love it.

Teacher Catarina Fernandes

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2. Its Halloween and a naughty witch decided to chop up some Halloween words. Find the words

and put them back together again.


vam hau cos pum wi b mu nted pkin bie at sc ary mon sp lin ster gob ell zom pire tch tume mmy

a) __________________ b) __________________ c) __________________ d) __________________

e) __________________ f) __________________ g) __________________ h) __________________

i) __________________ j) __________________ k) __________________ l) __________________

3. Now lets find out what Halloween is all about and when people started celebrating it. Read the

story below and fill in the blank spaces to find out. The words below will help you. Have fun!
October 31st black Ireland evil spirits All Saints Day ghosts faces skeletons pumpkins orange cats

Halloween is celebrated on ______________ every year. The holiday began as a Celtic festival from ______________ called Samhain. Halloween became more popular all over the world with the start of the Christian holiday called ______________. Halloween is traditionally a holiday that is meant to turn away ______________. People carved out scary ______________ and figures in giant turnips, placed a candle inside and set them in their windows to scare away evil ghosts and enemies on Halloween. Nowadays the turnips have been replaced by orange ______________, but the carving tradition is still continued, as well as lighting the candles on the night of Halloween. The traditional colours that are used for most decorations for Halloween are
______________ and ______________. There are many characters that are associated

with Halloween: ______________, witches, ______________, vampires, bats and black


______________.
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