HALLOWEEN

Halloween is a spooky holiday celebrated on October 31^st.  People in North America and some people in Europe celebrate Halloween.  There are even Halloween parties in Korea!  So, where did Halloween come from? 

It all started about 2,000 years ago in Britain.  First it was a Pagan harvest festival called Sowan.  They believed that ghosts and spirits came out this time of year.  They wanted to hide from the evil spirits so they dressed in costumes of dead people and ghosts. 

Later, this holiday mixed with the Christian holiday called All Saints Day.  People would go to houses and ask for a Soul Cake, a kind of bread.  Many years later Halloween was born.

Now people celebrate Halloween in many ways.  Children wear costumes and go to houses and ask for candy.  This is called Trick-or-treating.  Adults often go to costume parties.  Many people also decorate their houses.  A common decoration is a jack-o-lantern.  It is a carved pumpkin that looks like a scary face.  People also go to haunted houses with friends and family.  These haunted houses are like very scary theme parks.  Watching horror movies is another fun Halloween tradition. 

Common Halloween costumes are:  ghosts, vampires, zombies, scary masks, monsters, animals, witches, mummies, werewolves, and dead people.  What do you want to be for Halloween?

Halloween Quiz

1.  What day is Halloween?  

2.  Who celebrates Halloween?

3.  When did the Pagan’s start to celebrate Sowan? 

4.  What holiday mixed with Sowan?

5.  What is Soul Cake?

6.  What is trick-or-treating?

7.  What is a jack-o-lantern?

8.  What are three things people do on Halloween? 

9.  What are three common Halloween costumes?

present and past

Name:_________________________________

Fill in the blanks with   am, is, are , was or were

Today, I 1. ___________ at home. It 2. ___________Saturday morning and it  3. ____________ very cold.  Last month, my family and I 4. ______________on holiday in Canada. The weather 5. ____________ fantastic!  It 6. _____________ really hot and sunny. We 7. ____________ happy then.

The last vacation 8. _______________ great,  but now I 8. ___________  happy to be back.   It 9. ___________ nice to be  with all my friends. _

Twenty years ago, there 1. _____________ no cars on the street where I lived. There 2. _____________ only one bakery in the whole town. There 3.____________ no Internet at that time, so we sent letters to communicate with friends and family who lived far away.  I didn't like to go to school because, the bus stop 4._______________ far away from my house.

Now, the street in front of my house 5. ________________always very busy. There 6. ____________________ many cars and buses. There 7.___________________ also many shops and there  8.____________ big a department store right next to my house!

Yesterday , there 1.____________ a police blockade on the road because there 2.______________ a robbery. I 3.______________ very scared  and my parents 4._______________ worried because it happened in front of my house. This morning, I heard that the robber got caught and I 5.__________ glad that finally our place 6.___________ safe!

It 1. ____________ Monday today, and the weather  2.______________ sunny and warm. We 3.___________ in the garden chatting and eating ice cream.

The last few days it 4._____________ cold and rainy. We 5.__________ inside watching TV.  

On Christmas last year, my family and I 1._______________ in the mountains. There 2.___________ not many people because the weather 3.____________ bad. However, it 4.____________ still a lot of fun because there 5._______________ a lot of interesting things to do.

This year, we 6.________________ at home. It 7.______________ cold outside but warm inside. We, children 8.___________ in the bedroom playing board games. Mother  9.___________ in the kitchen preparing dinner.

She 10._______________ in the supermarket this morning. She spent a lot of time shopping because there 11._____________ so many things on sale.  It 12.___________ really hard to decide what to buy and what not.

At the moment, Father 13.______________ in the living room. He 14._______ busy decorating the Christmas tree. He 15.____________ at the market this morning buying Christmas tree decorations. The whole town 16._____________ very busy this morning, but now it 17.__________ empty.  Everybody 18. _______________ at home celebrating Christmas.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE!

singular

I am

you are

he, she, it is

plural

we are

you are

they are

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb TO BE

1. My parents-----------very nice.                      

  2. The students ----------at school.        

3. It---------------very hot today.         

4. My father --------------a spy !!!       

  5. --------------you all right ?                  

      6. What time --------------------it ?           

  7. This exercise -----------very hard.     

8. My friends--------------so stupid !        

9. The sky-------------full of clouds.               

           10. It --------------often rainy in England !                                     

     11. Dave-----------------short and fat.             

  12. Shrek------------------green.                    

13. Paris -------------the capital of France.                                       

        14. They -------------from Turkey.      

   15. My brother----------11 years old.          

  16. Belgium -------------a small country. 

17. This house---------------very big !    

  18. --------------they American ?               

      19. My cats -------------really funny.        

      20. New York ----------also known as the Big Apple.                                       21. Your house ------------very nice.        

22. Hollywood ------------a part of Los Angeles.                                  

       23. My car ------------n’t really fast.    

    24. It ------------important to work.        

  25. Some pupils -------------very noisy.    

26. Mexico-----------in the south of the Usa.                                                          

  27. Our planet -----------called Earth.

 28.There----------cars in the street.

29. It -------------so important to work !                    

       30. Playing video games -----------many boys ‘ passion.                                               

    31. Your dress ------------so nice !         

    32. Sam -----------quite grumpy today.     

          33. They ------------Irish, from Dublin. 

 34. All my copybooks ------------in my brand new schoolbag.                                        35. What-------------the date today !        

    36. My Dad -----------an engineer and my Mum ------------a  chef in a restaurant.                       

   37. Running ------------very good for health , but it --------------tiring !          

     38. London ------------n’t in France but it --------------in England.                                39. Sydney --------not the capital of Australia, it ----------------Canberra.       

  40. These flowers -----------beautiful.    

  41. -------------she from Sweden ?             

     42. Rex and  Star ----------------my dogs.              

        43. They-------------my clever dogs.                    

      44. ----------there a bank near here ?   

  45. ---------that your hoverboard?                       

     46. Where --------------my keys ?                   

   47. We-------------very busy these days.     

48. Australia -------------the smallest continent on Earth.                                        49. My laptop --------on my desk.           

     50. Days ---------------getting longer in Spring.                                              

    51. Where---------------your homework ?             

   52. Many people ----------- homeless after the last hurricanes in the islands.

AT HOME

BATHROOM               OVEN                        COUCH                  REFRIGERATOR  

BED                              STOVE                       TABLE                  WASHING MACHINE

DOOR                                       SHOWER                   BATHTUB            LIVINGROOM

WINDOW                     HOUSE                       SINK                     BEDROOM                 

KITCHEN                   CABINET                   TOILET                 CHAIR