Halloween presentation on the origins and celebration of Halloween in the US for my secondary students in Spain.

1. HALLOWEEN
or All Hallow’s Eve

2. The History of Halloween
🎃 Halloween or All Hallow’s Eve is celebrated on the 31st of
October
🎃 It is the day before All Hallows' Day, also known as All
Saints' Day
🎃 It has Celtic origins – Video on the History of Halloween
🎃 The tradition of Halloween was brought to the United
States by Irish and Scottish immigrants in the 19th century
🎃 Trick or Treating did not begin in the United States until
the 1950s

3. Halloween in the USA
Candy, Pumpkins, and Costumes

4. Trick or treat, smell my feet
Give me something good to eat!

5. Trick-or-treating
🎃 Children walk around their
neighborhood in costumes with a
bag to collect candy.
🎃 They knock on the doors of each
house.
🎃 When the door is opened, they
say “TRICK OR TREAT”
🎃 Then, the children get candy!

6. Jack-O-Lanterns

7. Selecting a pumpkin
🎃 Before you can carve a pumpkin, you must buy one to use!
🎃We go to pumpkin patches or the grocery store to find a pumpkin.
🎃There are lots of pumpkins around the time of Halloween!

8. Carving the pumpkin
First, you must select a design.

9. Carving the pumpkin
Next, you must cut the stem off of the pumpkin
and empty out the insides!

10. Carving the pumpkin
Next, you draw the design on the pumpkin.

11. Carving the pumpkin
Then, using a special set of small knives,
you cut the design out of the pumpkin.

12. Finally, you place a candle inside the jack-
o-lantern, and light the candle.

13. Wearing a costume is the best part!
Witch, Frankenstein, Ghost, Vampire, Minion

14. Halloween 1998 with my family
Halloween 2010 with my friend

15. Questions...
Raise your hand to answer!
1. Will you wear a
costume this year?
2. Have you gone
trick-or-treating?
3. Have you been
to a haunted
house?

16. Symbols of Halloween
Ghost
Skull
Mummy
Zombie
Coffin
Jack-O-Lantern,
Spider
Skeleton
Bats
Black Cat
Werewolf
Vampire

17. Practice new vocabulary
Imagine you are decorating a haunted house
for Halloween.
Draw some symbols of Halloween in your
haunted house and write their name in
English beside them.