Educational lesson “Halloween. Funny pumpkins" (English for preschoolers). Scenario for an extracurricular event in English on the topic “Halloween Halloween for children in English

will help you get an idea of ​​an unusual, fun and slightly scary, but still attractive holiday for children and adults.

Since the holiday has recently become increasingly popular in our country, it will be useful for schoolchildren and their parents to read topic in English Halloween to celebrate it in accordance with all traditions.

English topic Halloween will tell you about the main attributes of this celebration, and after reading it, you will be able to freely discuss with friends,
how are you going to celebrate or have already celebrated this event.

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Halloween

One of the popular national festivals of English-speaking countries is Halloween, which takes place on October 31 on Allhallows’s Eve.

The main symbol of the festival is a pumpkin with a candle inside it and a scary face cut out. It is considered that such pumpkin doesn`t let demons inside the house. There is an informal hymn of this festival: Bobby Pickett`s song called “Monster Mash”.

People come to parties wearing their Halloween costumes; usually they are monsters and terrible creatures from books or films. Children go treat-or-tricking from house to house, that means they try to get sweeties. If they don`t, they play unpleasant tricks on people who gave them no candy.

Fortune telling is also widely spread on Halloween. At night children and teenagers tell each other horror stories and different legends. The most popular legend is about Bloody Mary, who is said to appear in a mirror after her name is called three times.

Another important tradition is the organization of attractions, which scare their visitors. One can see a lot of horror films and cartoons on this holiday.

The holiday attracts us because we can show everyone our wildest ideas and live in the world of fantasy for a little while.

Nowadays Halloween is becoming more and popular in Russia.

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Halloween

One of the most popular national celebrations in English-speaking countries is Halloween, which takes place on October 31, the day before All Saints' Day.

The main symbol of the festival is a pumpkin with a candle inside and a scary face carved on it. It is believed that such a pumpkin does not allow demons into the house. There is an unofficial anthem for the holiday: a Bobby Pickett song called "The Monster Dance."

People go to parties in Halloween costumes, usually dressing up as monsters or scary creatures from books or movies. Children go from house to house shouting “trick or treat”, which means they are begging for sweets. If they don't get it, they do nasty things to those who didn't give them candy.

Fortune telling is also common on Halloween. At night, students and teenagers tell each other horror stories and various legends. The most popular legend is Bloody Mary, who is believed to appear in a mirror after her name is said three times.

Another important tradition is the organization of attractions that frighten visitors. On this day there are a lot of cartoons and horror films on TV.

Recently, Halloween has become increasingly popular in Russia.

Halloween for the little ones

Very little kids are unlikely to understand or remember anything about Halloween, so my daughter and I will just watch it, count the pumpkins and mice in English, and do a similar task on a piece of paper followed by coloring.
You can also buy a pumpkin and carve a face on it after class, or make masks yourself (models can be easily found online).
We ended up with this fun pumpkin:

Halloween for schoolchildren

These tasks are for a group of students aged 12 - 14 years. We get acquainted with the history of the holiday and solve a crossword puzzle, and then develop oral speech using cut cards. The student draws a card and composes a story based on it, then you do this and at the end you choose the most interesting story. If your conversational language is poor, compose a story one by one - he says a sentence, you say the next, and so on until the end.

Alternatively, you can do this task in writing. Do you remember at school we played this game in class: we wrote the first sentence on a piece of paper, wrapped it up, then passed it to a friend and he wrote further? You do the same with a scary story.

(This exercise can also be done with adults; the more conversation with them, the better).

Halloween for adults

During class, we watch two parts of the Word on the street series and do exercises for it (I copy them from the website, slightly changing them to suit the student’s level).

And for home I give you the task of watching episode 6 of season 8 of the TV series Friends

Scenario for a group lesson on the theme “Halloween”.

introduce students to the traditions and symbols of Halloween. expand students' vocabulary develop students' speech skills develop listening skills.

Progress of the lesson.

Org. moment.

Halloween, or All Hallows' Eve, is one of the oldest holidays in the world, which is celebrated today in many countries: in the UK and Russia, in Canada and the USA, in Germany and France, in Latin America and Spain. On this day, both adults and children dress up in frightening costumes of ‘representatives’ of evil spirits, scare and prank each other.common halloween characters - This ghosts, witches, vampires, skeletons, bats, owls, black cats, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, werewolves, demons.

Story this holiday is extremely interesting. The tradition of celebrating this holiday originates from the beliefs of the Celts, who in ancient times lived in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The Celts divided the year into two parts - winter and summer. On the eve of the Celtic New Year, which began on November 1, they celebrated the Samhain festival, associated with the end of agricultural work and the beginning of the cold winter. It was believed that on this day the souls of the dead visit their former homes, and with them all the evil spirits descend to the earth. Therefore, when leaving their homes after dark, the Celts put on scary masks and animal skins so that the spirits would not recognize them or mistake them for their own. Also, in order to scare away evil spirits and prevent them from entering the house, treats were placed outside for them.

groves on the tops of the hills, they lit fires and made sacrifices to evil spirits to appease them. And in the mornings, the Druids gave people coals from their fires so that they could light the fires of their homes. It was also a time of fortune telling and predictions. After all, the Celts believed that on this night the gates to the past and future open, the boundaries between the world of the dead and the world of the living are erased.

The tradition of celebrating Samhain was passed down from century to century until in the 1st century. AD The Romans did not conquer the territory of the Celts. Over the 400 years that they spent on Celtic soil, not only the population, but also traditions mixed: two Roman holidays merged with Samhain - Feralia (something like All Souls' Day) and a holiday in honor of the goddess of fruits and trees Pomona.

In the 9th century, Pope Gregory III moved the celebration of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1 (then this day was dedicated to those saints who did not have their own holiday during the year). People called “All Saints" Day Allhallowmass (the mass of all Hallows), and the night before this day was called All Hallows Eve - “All Hallows' Eve”. This is where the name of the holiday came from - Halloween. How By combining Christian and pagan holidays, the church apparently hoped for the gradual eradication of pagan traditions. However, the coincidence of dates led to the fact that the pagan holiday not only survived, but also inextricably merged in the popular consciousness with the church holiday of All Saints' Day.

There are many things associated with Halloween traditions, legends and superstitions which most people readily believe. For example, there is a belief that if you hear someone's footsteps behind you on Halloween night, you should never turn around, because it could be a dead person. If you do turn around, it is likely that very soon you yourself will go to the kingdom of the dead. Another belief says that if a bat flies into your house on Halloween, it means that ghosts or spirits are very close, and perhaps they are already in your house. If you wear your clothes inside out and go outside, you can see a witch in the sky at midnight. To ward off evil spirits, you need to walk backwards around your house three times before sunset. It is also believed that if everyone remains silent during dinner, this will help to call spirits to the table.

The main symbol of Halloween is, of course, pumpkin head with a candle lit inside. The tradition of carving jack-o'-lanterns goes back centuries. The name of this lantern - Jack-o-lanterns - goes back to the Irish legend about Stingy Jack. A cunning and stingy blacksmith named Jack managed to deceive the Devil himself twice and for this received from him a promise not to encroach on his own soul. However, after death, the sinner was not allowed into heaven. So, in anticipation of Judgment Day, Jack was forced to wander the Earth, lighting his way with a piece of coal, protected from rain and bad weather by an ordinary pumpkin. Hence the name of the lantern - Jack-o-lanterns, short for Jack of the Lanterns. This flashlight has become an essential attribute, without which no Halloween is complete. According to one version, the fire in it symbolizes the restlessness of wandering sinful souls.

Another indispensable attribute of Halloween - game "Treat or Trick" ("Treat or you'll regret"). Its meaning is that children dressed in carnival costumes knock on the doors of houses and demand treats. The owners usually pay them off with sweets. Otherwise, the children threaten to smear the door handles with soot.

More and more adults are also celebrating Halloween by having masquerade parties, in which they dress up as political and historical figures or just scary people from horror movies such as ghosts, vampires, goblins, Frankensteins, etc. Witches flying on broomsticks with black cats, skeletons, spiders and haunted houses are also symbols of Halloween.

A popular game during Halloween is “ bobbingforapples” (bite an apple). For a while, you must get an apple out of a tub of water without using your hands, put your head in the water and must bite off the apple.

The party may begin or end with a fancy dress show, where whoever has the most scary masquerade wins a prize. One of the highlights of Halloween is telling scary stories sitting around the fire. The story can be anything, but you must speak in a quiet, tense voice and at the worst place you must scream.

Perhaps the holiday is most popular today in the United States. It is believed that Halloween was brought to America in the 19th century by Irish immigrants. Although the Irish retained elements of Celtic beliefs, in the United States the customs of various European peoples mixed with Indian beliefs, and the American version of the holiday itself appeared. Today, Halloween ranks second in popularity and popularity in the United States after Christmas. Proof of this is the fact that Americans spend about $2.5 billion annually on Halloween, and for candy and fancy dress retailers, the holidays become one of the most profitable seasons.

Now listen to the awful story “What do you come for?”

An old woman lives in Black Street alone. She hasn't got a family. She hasn't got friends.

One day she sits in the kitchen and says: “Oh, I want to have a friend very much.”

Suddenly two feet, two arms and a man’s head come from the chimney. The old woman’s eyes bulge with terror.

Then two feet, two arms and a head come together into a big man. The man dances, dances and dances. Suddenly he stops and lools into the woman’s eyes.

The old woman asks in a small shivering voice: “What do you come for?”

“What do I come for?” he says. “I come for YOU!”

(There is a tub of water on the table with an apple in it.

Children must reach it without using their hands, only with their teeth)

Let’s play “Bobbing for apples”. You must get the apple out of a tub of water without using your hands. Who can do it?

V.ReadingpoemsOHalloween.

Ten little witches.

One little, two little, tree little witches,

Four little, five little, six little witches,

Seven little, eight little, nine little witches,

Ten little witches in the sky!

Ten little, nine little, eight little witches,

Seven little, six little, five little witches,

Four little, three little, two little witches,

One little witch

Extracurricular activity in English for primary school

"Halloween"

Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.
Halloween by Harry Behn

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ENGLISH EXTRA-CLASSROOM ACTIVITY

LANGUAGE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL.

Topic: Halloween

Morozova Natalya Vladimirovna, MBUDO “House of Creativity “Istoki”, Volgorechensk, teacher of additional education.
Description: This material will be of interest to foreign language teachers for extracurricular activities. The material requires preliminary preparation. Teachers will need to teach children about Halloween.
Purpose : The notes will be useful when developing extracurricular activities in English on the topic “Halloween”.
Grade: 2-4 grade
Goals:
Developing interest in learning English and the culture of the countries of the target language.
Fostering respect for the traditions and customs of the country of the language being studied.
Cultivating respect for each other.
Tasks:
Activation of the use of lexical units in speech.
Improving pronunciation skills.
Systematization of the studied material.
Equipment: Whatman paper with a drawing of a palace and ghosts, drawings of skeletons, balloons, permanent markers, five boxes (with a newspaper, a wet rag, semolina, a bag of flour and water diluted), a projector, a screen, a laptop.

PROGRESS OF THE EVENT

1.Organizational point:
Teacher: Tonight is the night (Tonight is the night)
When dead leaves fly (When dead leaves fly)
Like witches on switches (Like witches on brooms)
Across the sky, (Across the sky)
When elf and sprite (When elves and fairies)
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen. (In the moonlight.)
(Halloween by Harry Behn).

Today is a holiday and I have prepared for you….. Oh, where is the box?
The lights go out. Two girls (dressed like witches) run onto the stage. They have a box in their hands.
1 sorceress: Is there something noisy in our clearing?
Witch 2: Look! We are not alone!
1 sorceress: I see that many children have gathered here.
Teacher: Children, let's ask if this is our box of gifts?
Witch 2: But we won’t just give it to you!

2. Conducting competitions:
1 sorceress: Complete our tests and take the box! (you need to break into teams)
Witch 2: I'll check what you know about Halloween?
1. When is this holiday celebrated? (in October, 31)
2. Where did he come from? (Long ago, people believed that on
a certain night dead spirits came)
3. What are its main colors? (black and yellow)
4. What are the names of evil spirits? (Skeleton, monster, witch, ghost, vampire)
5. What do children shout when they scare the neighbors? (Trick or treat)
6. What do children get treated to? (sweets, chocolate)

1 witch: Here are the names of different evil spirits in English: you need to arrange the words in alphabetical order:
(Skeleton, monster, witch, ghost, vampire)

Witch 2: And here find the extra word in each line.

1. Bat, cat, spider, bee, owl.

2. Broom, balloon, pointed hat, magic book, pot.

3. Turkey, apple, pumpkin, candy, sweets.

4. Black, orange, red, white, winter.

1 sorceress: Who is the bravest?
There are five boxes here, you need to stick your hand in there and not be scared (the boxes contain newspaper, a wet rag, semolina, a bag, flour diluted with water)

2 witch: Can you draw the funniest monster?

Children are given orange balloons and black permanent (others may smudge) markers. You need to draw a Halloween monster on the ball. The funniest grimace wins.

1 sorceress: Good, you are clever and brave. Who can name the magic words of Halloween?
Children call: Trick or treat, trick or treat.
Witch 2: Correct! Now let's sing a song:

Song: Knock, knock. Trick or treat?

Teacher: The witches ask for a treat. Need to give. Let's remember what sweets you like?
Apple, banana, sweet, cake, ice-cream, juice
1 sorceress: That's it. Enough. We are giving away the box!!!
Children: Hurray! !!
Teacher: Let's all dance together!!!

Final Dance: The Hockey Pokeey

Halloween photo shoot.Participants are divided into pairs. Couples are asked to come up with a scary pose for a photo shoot. You can use the equipment and makeup available nearby. Having come up with an idea, the couples take turns participating in a photo shoot, demonstrating their idea. Each pair must be photographed.

3. Conclusion:
Teacher: Our holiday is over. (Our holiday is over. Did you like it? What did we do?)
Children: We play, dance, sing, take photos. (We played, danced, sang, took pictures).
Teacher: Now we say “good bye” to our witches. (Let's say goodbye to our witches!)
Children: “Good bye!” (Goodbye!)

(Knock-knock. “Treat or Treat?”)
Who are you? (Who are you?)
I'm a ghost. I'm a little ghost. (I am a ghost. A little ghost.)
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?
I'm a ghost. I'm a little ghost.
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?

Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?
I'm a cowboy. I'm a little cowboy.
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?


Who are you?
I'm a witch. I'm a little witch.
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?

Knock knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?
I'm a monster. I'm a little monster.

Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?

Knock knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?
I'm a ballerina. I'm a little ballerina.
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?

Knock knock. Trick or treat?
Who are you?
I'm a pirate. I'm a little pirate.
Knock, knock. Trick or treat?

Knock, knock. Trick or treat?
Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween.

The Hokey Pokey
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey

That's what it's all about.
You put your left hand in,
You put your left hand out,
You put your left hand in,
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out
You put your right foot in,
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
You put your left foot in,
You put your left foot out
You put your left foot in,
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
You put your head in
You put your head out
You put your head in
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
You put your whole self in,
You put your whole self out
You put your whole self in,
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.

1 Words on the topic: Halloween (audio version, transcription)

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(= Hallow-e"en, = Hallowe"en) [ˌhæləu"iːn] – American abbreviation for All Hallows" Eve; letters "All Hallows' Evening" - Halloween (Halloween), the eve of All Hallows' Day, is celebrated on the night of October 31 to November 1 (Halloween is written with a capital letter, like other holiday names in English)
(trick-or-treat) [ˌtrɪkɔː"triːt] - a custom according to which on Halloween children knock on doors and demand treats (threatening to play a trick on the owner of the house if he refuses); “Pay off, otherwise I’ll cast a spell!”
[ˌʤækə"læntən] – a pumpkin lantern with cut holes in the form of eyes, nose and mouth
["pʌmpkɪn] – pumpkin
["kændl] – candle
- ghost, ghost
- sorceress, witch
- bat
["kændɪ] – candy, lollipop
["skelɪt(ə)n] – skeleton
- death
["spaɪdə] – spider

Other words:

All hallows day– All Saints Day (November 1); fortune telling- divination, fortune telling; bonfire- fire; prank- mischief, prank, prank, trick; costume- costume; witch's broom– pomelo; hat- hat; treat– treat; pumpkin pie– pumpkin pie; apple- apple

black cat– black cat; spider's web– spider network, cobweb; ghoul– vampire, ghoul, ghoul; wer(e)wolf– werewolf, wolf-man; monster– monster; devil- devil, demon; scarecrow– scarecrow; graveyard- cemetery; blood- blood

scary- creepy, terrible; spooky– sinister; creepy

2 Song with English vocabulary on the topic: Halloween

3 Children's song in English: Halloween Night

Halloween Night
(Lyrics: Bob Boyle / Music: B. Mossman)

When the sky is dark and the Wuzzle Wolf sings
Out come the creepy-crawly things
When you see something scary, it's quite alright
"Cause tonight is the night

Trick or treat!

Ooo-oooo Halloween night
Ooo-oooo Halloween night
The moon is full and all is right

Pumpkins, witches and spooky bats
Candy, costumes and silly hats
Ghosts and goblins, ghouls with wings
Tricky, sticky, icky things

Some things are spooky and some are scary
But look over there it"s a pretty pink fairy

Trick or treat!
Ooo-oooo Halloween night
Ooo-oooo Halloween night

Dress up fancy and dress up funny
There's a vampire dancing with a purple bunny
Dress up wild and dress up weird
There's a butterfly with a wizard's beard

The candy is sweet and the candy is sour
But ya gotta get home before the midnight hour
Ooo-oooo, it's Halloween night

4 English nursery rhyme about Halloween with translation

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate,
The first one said: "Oh, my! It’s getting late!"
The second one said: "There are witches in the air!"
The third one said: "But we don’t care!"
The fourth one said: "Let's run and run, and run!"
The fifth one said: “I’m ready for some fun!”
Oooo went the wind and out went the light
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Five yellow round pumpkins sat on the fence.
One of them said: “It will be completely dark soon!”
Another: “Soon the ghosts will begin their night flight!”
And the third whispers in horror: “No one will save us!”
Fourth: “So scary that I want to run away!”
And the fifth: “It’s funny to me. Let’s go dance!”
The moon rose in the sky, light illuminated the space.
Five yellow round pumpkins fell over the fence.

5 Features of the use of words denoting death in English

dead- dead, deceased;
to be dead- not to be alive

1. The Russian sentence "he died", reporting only the fact itself without indicating any circumstances, corresponds to English he is dead.

Are his parents alive? No, they are dead– Are his parents alive? No, they died.

2. Unlike to be dead, verb to die used with obligatory circumstances of time, place, etc.:

Didn't die in a car accident– He died (died) in a car accident.
In three years he died peacefully surrounded by all his loving family“Three years later he died quietly surrounded by his family.

3. Prepositions of And from with which the verb is used to die, distinguish the nature of the cause of death. Design to die of used when the cause is illness: to die of heart attack (of fever)– die from a heart attack (fever).
Design to die from– if the cause is damage to the body: to die from wounds- die from wounds.

6 Some features of the use of the English word candy

Candy(candy, sweets) - most commonly used as a collective noun in American English. As a rule, candy is used with a singular verb and is defined by the words much, little, some, any.
In the British version the more common word is sweets, with which the verb can be either singular or plural.
Candy as a collective noun can sometimes be conceptualized as countable and in this case can be used in the plural: cookies and candies- cookies and sweets.

7 Halloween in idioms in English

bobbing for apples/ducking for apples– “get the apple”, a traditional children's game at parties on All Hallows' Eve (players try to get apples floating in a basin of water with their teeth)

shell out– colloquial give small gifts to children who go from house to house on All Hallows' Eve (October 31st)

(as) dead as a doornail– deader than dead (lit. dead as a doornail)
over one's dead body– colloquial through smb. dead body ( Only over my dead body! – Only over my corpse!)
to be dead to the world- sleep soundly; be dead drunk
dead loss– net loss; Jonah
dead duck– colloquial a goner
dead heat– draw, fight to a draw
the quick and the dead- bibliography living and dead
to be dead and buried/gone- lie in the grave; stay in the (distant) past
to flog/beat a dead horse- engage in useless work, waste energy, try in vain
dead presidents- Amer. decomposition banknotes
dead marines, dead men– colloquial empty wine bottles
to be dead in the water– 1) lose speed (about the ship); 2) reach a dead end (about negotiations); find yourself in a hopeless situation

the devil of a job- hell of a job
the devil of a fellow- a real devil, a daredevil, a desperate fellow
the devil for women- a big hunter of women
to catch the devil- get a scolding
to give smb. the devil for smth.- to soap smb. neck for smth.
to play the devil with- to cause harm, to spoil
when the Devil is blind– when the devil goes blind (after the rain on Thursday)
devil among the tailors– 1) work is in full swing; 2) commotion
to love smb. as devil loves holy water– to hate someone, cannot stand them; run from someone like the devil from incense
devil-may-care attitude– a devil-may-care attitude, it’s all bullshit
devil's own luck– damn lucky; extraordinary happiness
the devil (and hell) to pay- a lot of troubles, all kinds of troubles
devil and all– anything (good or bad); whatever you want; all sorts of troubles
printer's devil– mouth student, the most junior (by position) worker in the printing house (“whipping boy” who, as an “enemy of the human race,” gets it for everything)

8 Proverbs and signs about Halloween

Everyone has debts at Halloween.
Everyone gets into debt on Halloween.

Talk of the devil and he will appear.
Speak of the devil, he will appear.

The devil is not so bad as he is painted.
The devil is not as scary as he is painted.

He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.
He who dines with the devil should take care of a spoon with a long handle.

It's every man for himself, and the Devil takes the hindmost.
Every man for himself, and let the devil take the last one.

Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack.
If there is a black cat in the house, then the girls will have no shortage of admirers.

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.
If there are black cats wandering around and pumpkins flashing with lights, expect good luck on Halloween.

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, "tis near Halloween.
If witches ride horses, black cats appear, the moon laughs and whispers, Halloween is coming.

9 Games, songs, stories in English on the theme of Halloween (flash)

History of Halloween

Halloween is traditionally celebrated in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, as well as in Spain and Latin America, although it is not an official weekend or public holiday.
It is believed that the prototype of Halloween is a Celtic holiday. The celebration of "Samhain", symbolizing the end of summer, agricultural work and the beginning of the cold winter associated with death, took place on the eve of the Celtic new year, which began on November 1. According to legend, at this time the dead returned to earth to evaluate the deeds of their descendants. Celtic priests - Druids - predicted the future on this day. The Celts dressed in masquerade costumes to deceive evil spirits who could send misfortune upon them. To appease the spirits, food was placed on the doorsteps of houses. When the Roman legions conquered Gaul, this territory mixed the traditions of Souin\Samhain and two Latin holidays Feralia (accounted for at the end of October, on this day the Romans commemorated the deceased) and the day of Pomona\Pomona (the goddess of tree fruits, the wife of Vertumna, is depicted with fruits – usually with apples – and with a garden knife). After the spread of Christianity, pagan holidays were banned. Pope Boniface IV declared November 1st All Saints' Day - on this day it was supposed to commemorate all the saints and martyrs. This was a common practice: Christians often preferred not to ban ancient rituals, but to give them a different meaning. The new holiday was called All-hallowees (a corruption of the Old English phrase - the mass of all saints), and the night of October 31 (Sowin's night) was called "All-hallowes Eve" - ​​Halloween. It was believed that on Halloween night, dark forces temporarily gain power over the earth and must be scared away. In addition, food was given to the poor on this day.

Halloween Party Supplies

Jack-o-lantern
One of the main attributes of the holiday is a carved
pumpkin head with a lit candle or electric light inside. The appearance of this symbol is most often associated with the Irish legend about a stingy man named Jack, who twice deceived the devil and made the evil spirit swear that he would never harm him. When Jack died, God refused to take the stingy man's soul into heaven. He sent Jack's soul back to earth and gave him fire coals for eyes so that Jack would ward off the devil. The ancient Irish and Scots began to carve the scary faces of Stingy Jack from apples, and later from potatoes. In the USA, pumpkin began to be used for these purposes.

Candles
For many Irish people, the symbol of the holiday is a burning candle, which was traditionally placed in the east window and burned until the end of the holiday.
In the United States, Halloween candles are traditionally colored orange, purple, pink or black and scented with cinnamon or other spices with a strong sweet-spicy scent that is strongly associated with the holiday.

Trick-or-treat
America has enriched Halloween with the Trick-o-Treat tradition. trick-or-treat(can be roughly translated as "trick or treat"). The poor do not expect favors from nature: children dressed in carnival costumes knock on the doors of houses and demand treats - sweets (a similar custom exists among the Slavic peoples - carols). If the owners turn out to be greedy, then the children can take revenge. Previously, they threw eggs at an inhospitable house, and over time, toilet paper often began to play the role of eggs - the roll is thrown in such a way that it unwinds.

Ghost stories
During Halloween, it is common to share ghost stories and other scary tales.

Fortune-telling
In some regions, Halloween is called "Nut Cracking Night" because nuts were often used in witchcraft and fortune telling. The girl, to make sure of her lover’s fidelity, placed two nuts with names on the grate next to the fireplace. If they burned together, everything was in order, but if they scattered to the sides or did not burn, this indicated the young man’s infidelity.
In England, on Halloween, ivy leaves were thrown into the fire in pairs - the pointed one for the man, and the round one for the woman. If the leaves rushed towards each other in the hot air, it meant a wedding, and if they scattered, it meant a quarrel.

Apple bobbin (bobbing for apples)
Traditional fun on All Hallows' Eve. Players (usually children) try to catch apples with their teeth from a vessel filled with water. In Scotland the game is known as ducking for apples", in Ireland – " snap apple".

Food
Foods associated with Halloween: Bonfire toffee(sweets, type of iris); Caramel apples(caramelized apples); Caramel corn(caramelized corn); Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread(pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread); Roasted pumpkin seeds(roasted pumpkin seeds); Roasted sweet corn(roasted sweet corn); Soul cakes(All Saints' Day Easter cake); Novelty candy shaped like skulls, pumpkins, bats, worms, etc.(sweets in the shape of skulls, pumpkins, bats, worms, etc.).
Halloween has spawned an entire culinary trend. For example, on this day in the USA they bake “scary” cakes and pies. However, an ordinary coffee or chocolate cake can be turned into a real Halloween one. To do this, just stick a few cookies and drip raspberry or cherry jam on them (they will represent bloody tombstones). In the United States, “bloody popcorn” has become popular in recent years. A little tomato juice is added to regular popcorn (puffed corn), after which the popcorn is dried in the oven for two minutes.

Exercises and games on the theme: "Halloween" (in English)

Children's poems about Halloween in English

Friendly Ghost

I'm a friendly Ghost, I'm a friendly Ghost,
Watch me fly, watch me fly,
I can fly right through the air
See how all the people stare.
Way up high in the sky

Halloween Night

Jack-O-lanterns, Jack-O-lanterns
Hall-O-ween, Hall-O-ween
See the owls gliding,
Coal black cats are hiding,
Ghosts go Boo, Ghosts go Boo

(by Jack Prelutsky)


Give us candy, give us cake,
Give us something sweet to take.
Give us cookies, fruit and gum,
Hurry up and give us some.
You had better do it quick
Or we"ll surely play a trick.
Trick or treat, trick or treat,
Give us something good to eat.

Jack-O-Lantern

Jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern,
Halloween, Halloween.
See the witches flying,
Hear the wind a sigh,
Oooooo, Oooooo.

Oh the Bats

Oh the bats sing a squeaky song.
And they sing nearly all night long.
Catching bugs Until the break of dawn.
Then the bats fly away.