2. ORIGIN
We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st. Where does
the holiday come from?
The 2000-year-old holiday originally comes from people called The
Celts. They thought ghosts visited the living on October 31st. They
dressed up like ghosts so the spirits would not harm them.
Today, many countries still remember the dead
on November 1st. It is called All Hallow’s Day.
The day before, October 31st, is called
All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween for short.
3. ORIGIN
Halloween is an old tradition in Ireland and Scotland. In those
countries, people dressed up and carried lanterns made of turnips.
When people moved from Ireland and Scotland to the United States,
they started using pumpkins. This is where the jack-o’-lantern
comes from.They also had a tradition of giving food to the spirits.
Later, they gave the food to poor people. This is where trick-or-
treating comes from. Halloween has changed a lot since its origins.
What do you think Halloween will be like in two hundred years?
4. VOCABULARY
Halloween N. a holiday celebrated on October 31 in which people dress in scary costumes.
To carve V. to cut with a large knife.
Pumpkin N. a large, orange vegetable associated with Halloween.
Jack-o-lantern N. Americans traditionally cut out scary faces in pumpkins and put a candle inside.
These pumpkins with faces are called "Jack-o-lanterns." Jack-o-lanterns are made to
scare away evil spirits on Halloween.
Halloween
Jack-o-lantern
People carving pumpkins
Pumpkin
5. VOCABULARY
Costume N. scary clothing or disguises worn on Halloween.
“Trick or treat"
On Halloween, children go from house to house and say "trick or treat." This
phrase means give me candy or I will play a trick on you. Families usually give
the children candy.
A costume party N. a party where everyone dresses in scary costumes,
Bobbing for apples
This is a traditional Halloween game. You put apples in a barrel of water and
people try to take the floating apples out of the water using only their mouths.
Costumes
“Trick or treat"
Bobbing for apples
at a costume party
6. VOCABULARY
A skeleton N. a body of nothing but bones.
A ghost N. the spirit of a dead person which appears again.
A goblin N. an unkind spirit which plays tricks on people.
A witch N. a woman with magic powers (usually evil) .
A warlock N. a man with magic powers (usually evil).
A skeleton
A witch A goblin
A ghost
A warlock
