Halloween

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b, k, mavo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Today you are going to find out things about Halloween

What do you know
about Halloween?

00:43

In which country did Halloween start?

1. America
2. England
3. Ireland
4. Scotland

01:11

How did the Celts ward off (afweren) ghosts?
More than one answer is correct

1. By wearing costumes
2. Carving pumkins
3. Dancing with the ghosts
4. Bonfires

01:32

How did Halloween start?

1. They liked to dress up as something scary
2. To protect themselves from ghosts
3. They were protecting themselves from other people
4. They liked to scare each other

01:39

What is a Jack o'lantern?

1. Paint on a pumpkin
2. A pumpkin carved out with faces
3. Something you hang in front of your window.
4. It's what people eat at Halloween.

02:09

What were the first Jack o'lanterns?
More than one answer is correct.

1. Potatoes
2. Tomato
3. Pumpkin
4. Turnip

Which monster drinks blood and is afraid of garlic?

1. Witch
2. Mummy
3. Vampire
4. Pirate

In the United States a lot of children go...

1. Cake or sweeting
2. Trick or treating

I have a black cat, I fly on a broomstick and I like magic. Who am I?

1. Spider
2. Witch
3. Mummy
4. Ghost (spook, geest)

I am black, creepy, most people don't like me. What am I?

1. Spider
2. Cat
3. Skeleton
4. Bat (vleermuis)

I am orange, people carve (uitsnijden) me out with a knife and I have a candle in me. What am I?

1. Jack o'lantern
2. Witch
3. Spider
4. Mummy

1. Did you like this listening exercise?
2. Write down 3 new words you learned today.