What to do

1. Write the words trick or treat on the board. Do any of your students know what trick or treat is? You can either elicit their answers and get students to check them with the introduction text on the activity sheet, or you can use the introduction text as a dictation.

2. Check through the Halloween vocabulary in the list below. Get students to translate the words into their own language and to write a mini Halloween dictionary.

trick (n)
treat (n)
neighbourhood (n)
knock (v)
witch (n)
pumpkin (n)
evil (adj)
nuts (n)
candle (n)
reflection (n)
crossroads (n)
poltergeist (n)
hills (n)
souls (n)

3. Do the quiz. Students can either work on their own or in small teams. For each question, get a student to read out the question and two possible answers. The students/teams then write down the answer they think is correct. When they have all written it down, ask a student to tell you what answer they chose and then tell them if it's a correct answer (a treat) or incorrect answer (a trick). The students have to keep track of the number of tricks and treats they get. Who finishes the quiz with the most treats? (You may want to take some sweets to the class so your students can have some real treats!)

4. Talk about Halloween. Do students celebrate Halloween or the following All Saints Day in their country? What do they do to celebrate? What will they be doing at Halloween this year?

Answers
1. a; 2. b; 3. a; 4. a; 5. a; 6. b; 7. a; 8. b; 9. b; 10. a; 11. b; 12. a; 13. a; 14. b