The document provides three writing options for students to choose from for an assignment. Option A involves writing a country and language fact sheet, following specific rules. Option B is to create an original horror story or adapt an existing story, incorporating common horror elements. The document also shares the folktale of Jack-O-Lantern, describing how the miser Jack, after dying, was turned away from both Heaven and Hell and forced to wander with only a lantern, leading to the Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.

1. 1ºESO
WRITING

2. OPTION A
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You have to write a country and language fact sheet aout your
country
 Follow the rules you have in the book
 Use the tenses you have studied in the unit
 Make use of “also” correctly
 Use capital letters when talking about the countries
 WRITE PARAGRAPHS

3. OPTION B
HORROR STORIES
Create your own horror story or make an adaptation of any
other story you already know.
Common elements to horror stories
 Characterization
 Atmosphere
 Suspense
 Fear
 Scene /context

5. THE STORY OF THE JACK-O-LANTERN
Jack, it seems, was a bad man. He kept all his money to himself.
He wouldn't help people for all of his life. When Jack died, he
wasn't allowed into Heaven because he was such a miser: a
person who wouldn't share his money.
It seems that Jack also had played tricks on the Devil, who
wouldn't let him into hell, either.
Jack was stuck. He had to walk the earth, holding a lantern, until
Judgment Day.
This is the story that has been handed down to us by the Irish
people who came to America in the 1800s. They carved their
turnips into the face of "Jack-of-the-lantern" to remind
themselves what happened to people who were misers. And
in the fall, pumpkins are much easier to find than turnips.
So that's why Americans today carve their pumpkins into
jack-o-lanterns.