2+Unit+2+Halloween

=Halloween is a festival celebrated on October 31st. Children dress up with special costumes. They eat too much and stay up too late, celebrating.= = = =Children go around the neighbourhood wearing make-up and dressed in masks and colourful costumes. The most common costumes are witches, ghosts, skeletons and popular TV, movie or storybook characters. = =The children go door to door saying "__trick or treat__ ". People give them candy, cookies, fruit or money=
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=Look at the following powerpoint= @http://blocs.xtec.cat/auxiliarsdeconversa/files/2009/03/story_-ies_vr.pdf

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=Do the following halloween quizz= []

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media type="custom" key="11028258" = One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. = = is purchased for Halloween. =

=Cloze: Look at the list of words at the bottom of the page and fill the gaps= [|http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/halloweencloze.htm]

=[]= 3 animated movies check

=Ancient Origins of Halloween = = //Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1.// =

= //This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. // = = = = //Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the limits between the worlds of the living and the dead became unclear. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.// = =//During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins,//=

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