Celebrations and Festivities

HALLOWEEN

Activities

ENGLISH CENTRAL

Watch videos about Halloween and record your voice reading the text afterwards. You need to register to record your voice and get marks.

How Halloween came to be

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Learn about the origins of Halloween

It's Halloween again

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Learn about the origins of Jack-o-lantern.

Halloween History

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A National Geographic video explaining the History of Halloween. Answer some questions about the video by Laura Porras Wadley here.  Answers are included.
There's also a matching game that you can download. The pdf file consists of the main vocabulary of the video and the answers to the game. Watch out! Somebody could try to trick you in the classroom...

spooky story
The New Catacomb by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

​Enjoy a story with nice illustrations and a helpful glossary by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The New catacomb as well.

GAMES

HAUNTED HOUSE

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Play Haunted house. "I spy with my little eye..." find the things you need for the magic spell.

HAUNTED HOUSE LEVEL 2

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Find the objects in the house using the clues.

Pick a pumpkin

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Game in English. Create your own pumpkin.

Halloween word search

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Play this Halloween Word Search to learn more about Halloween.

SONGS ON/AT HALLOWEEN

MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER!

Zombies are typical in Halloween. To get the Youtube link of this song and worksheets go to our SONGS section.

This is Halloween -from the nigthmare before christmas subtitled

"The Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett

The Monster Mash Activities

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Do different exercises to complete the song.

The Monster Mash Lyrics

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On the left you'll find the song with lyrics.
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/monstermashlyrics.html

5th November: Bonfire Night

Find a video to learn the story about Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes on ENGVID.  A glossary and a test are also provided.
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Christmas

 Learn about The Queen Message, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, the traditional Christmas dinner, Christmas crackers, Boxing Day and more. Click here to download the Reading Christmas worsheet. To learn more abotu British Culture go to Woodlands Resources
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Christmas Songs

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters 1951
The song with lyrics
Rock version of the song by Relient K with lyrics
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Frank Kelly - With Lyrics
A hillarious story based on the traditional song

CHRISTMAS GAMES

 Santa Snowball Shoot by the British Council

Throw snowballs to hit the fake Santas.

Attack of the sprouts  on Flonga by EYEGAS

Smash as many sprouts as possible

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne Lyrics

This is the song everybody sings at New Year's Eve. Here you are the lyrics of the song and its translation into English

Auld Lang Syne from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

A passage from it's a Wonderful Life where Everybody sings this song.
Silent Night

Jingle Bells
Get the lyrics of Silent Night  and Jingle Bells with some definitions here