Now, I promise this will be the last post about Halloween but I took some nice pictures of our Halloween party at the high school and I wanted to show you how much fun we had and how hard students worked; because not only did they spookily decorate our common room and prepared the games for the party but , they also cooked delicious creepy dishes,which I’m afraid are right now sitting comfortably around my hips.
Anyways , thank you guys for making our Halloween celebration a big creepy crawly success!!!
Enjoy the video!!!!!
Jack-o-Lanterns in Halloween History
I hope you’re not getting sick of so many posts about Halloween. This, if my memory doesn’t fail, is my third post about this tradition but I’m afraid you haven’t seen the last of it as we’ll be throwing our Halloween party on Wednesda . I’ve boarded the Halloween train and I have no intention of getting off .
As if cooking and decorating were not enough for my students, this video about the history of Jack O’Latern will set the mood for the halloween party and do the trick
QUESTIONS FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS. Click here
QUESTIONS FOR INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS . Click here
Halloween on the rocks!
Let’s have a Halloween party!!
Food ideas
Decoration ideas
Stonehenge: one of the world’s most ancient landmarks.
and one of the most mysterious , too! In fact, over the course of years, scientists and philosophers have tried to attribute their origin to Merlin the wizard, to druids and even there are some crackpots who think aliens were involved but the truth is that even nowadays, after countless studies, nobody can say for certain why it was built. Was it an observatory, a temple for sun worship, a healing centre, a place to bury the dead or a giant calendar? How did they manage to carry the huge stones and then, without any metal tools or machinery build this impressive, unique structure?
I’ve selected this video about StoneHenge for my elementary students. I have chopped the original from YouTube using TubeChop because it was too long and probably too difficult, too. Hope it is useful!
I have decided on the True/Flase exercise because I think it is easier than the Open Questions option.
AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO, DECIDE WHETHER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE AND CORRECT THE FALSE ONES.
1. StoneHenge is in Northern England
2. According to the Medieval legend Merlin, the wizard, built it.
3. According to recent scientific studies,it was built 500 years ago.
4. Each of the stones weighs between fifty and eighty thousand pounds
5. The stones were carved using metal tools.
Halloween: Write a Comic with a Scary Story
Halloween is coming soon , it’s almost here and this is a great time to let your imagination flow and write a scary story. Writing????? I can almost hear you complaining about having to write something , (well, anything). 
OK, let’s do it in a funny way!
Let’s say the story is related to your school and /or to your teacher . A great opportunity to scare MEEEE or even , if you dare, kill me, have me eat poison or place me in the bonfire for witchcraft. The possibilites are endless.
We are going to do it using a comic template from this funny site http://www.grammarmancomic.com/index.html ,where we’ll choose from different comic options and where we can also see other comics students like you have written. Then ,when you have finished your masterpiece , we’ll vote for the best story. Does it sound like a good plan?
Choose your template
♣ School of Scares! It started like any other English lesson…
♣ Terror Teacher! One day our usual English teacher was absent…
♣The Homework from Hell! We were in English class, waiting for home time..
♣Ghosts and Grammar! Nobody believed the stories about our school day, until one day…
When writing a comic , it might be helpful to know some common English interjections. Click here to see some of the most common
Click here to see some ideas for your comics and have a spooky Halloween!
