Halloween originated from Celtic harvest festivals celebrating the end of the harvest season and remembering the dead. It was brought to the United States by immigrants and is now celebrated on October 31st as a time for wearing costumes, gathering with family and friends, and eating candy. Popular Halloween traditions include trick-or-treating, decorating homes with symbols like jack-o-lanterns, and attending parties or haunted houses.

1. Halloween

2. History of Halloween
 The Celtic harvest festivals (Harvest = La cosecha)
 Remembering the dead
 Brought to USA by immigrants
 “All Hallows Eve” became “Halloween”
 October 31st is now a celebration of Autumn/Fall
 To celebrate, people wear a costume, gather with family
and friends, and eat a lot of candy

3. Halloween Vocabulary
 Pumpkins  Jack-o-lanterns

4. Halloween Vocabulary
Witch Monster

5. Halloween Vocabulary
Cauldron Bat

6. Halloween Vocabulary
Werewolf Vampire

7. Black Cat
What superstition is associated
with this type of cat?
= Bad Luck (mala suerte)

8. Halloween Vocabulary
Ghost Mummy

9. Halloween Vocabulary
Skeleton Skull

10. Halloween Vocabulary
Spider Coffin

11. Traditions
Trick or treating

12. Traditions
Candy!

13. Traditions
Decorate the house and the yard
(Decorate = decorar, yard = jardín/patio)

14. Traditions
Halloween Parties
(Parties = Fiestas)

15. Traditions
Festivals and Haunted Houses
Haunted House = Casa embrujada

16. Popular Halloween Movies

17. Halloween Tongue Twisters
 Dracula digs dreary, dark dungeons.
 Which witch wished which wicked wish?
 Creepy crawler critters crawl through creepy
crawly craters.
 Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the
plumpest pumpkins.
 If two witches would watch two watches, which
witch would watch which watch?