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| Fun Easy English Classroom October 31 |
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Classroom
Today
Learn about
Halloween |
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 Halloween
Today you are going to learn about
Halloween an important holiday celebrated
worldwide. |
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 Reading
Comprehension
This is a reading comprehension lesson to test your ability
to understand information written in English. |
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Holiday:
Halloween is a holiday in many English speaking
countries that is celebrated on the night of October 31st.
Children wear costumes and they go to peoples' homes saying
"Trick or treat!" to ask for candy, sweets in the United
Kingdom, or lollies in Australia, and then people give it to
them. This practice originally involved a threat. A threat
is when someone says that they will do something bad if they
do not get what they want. In this case the threat could be
explained as: "Give me a treat or I will play a trick on
you." Children today usually do not play tricks if they do
not get treats. However, some children still get up to
mischief (pranks or things to make fun of people; like
putting toilet paper in trees; writing on windows with soap
or throwing eggs at peoples' houses). People sometimes dress
up as ghosts, witches, goblins and other scary things for
Halloween.
The Pagan holiday Samhain, that the All Saints holy
day replaced, was also known as the Day of the Dead. Many
Wiccans and modern Pagans celebrate the Day of the Dead. This is a happy holiday (even though it
celebrates 'Death'). It is the day that the souls of dead
people are believed to come back to Earth.
Many Lutheran churches celebrate a holiday on October 31st
called the Reformation. This holiday celebrates the day that
Martin Luther put The Ninety-Five Theses on a church door.
Trick-or-Treating: It is said
that on the night of All Hallow's Eve the gap between the
living and dead worlds are closer, and that dead souls come
back to earth. The souls would then look for a living body
to possess for the next year. People, not wanting to be
possessed would leave food and drinks outside their doors to
please the souls. Over time, beggars started taking and then
begging for food and then children started to. This is only
believed in some religions. As well as leaving food out,
some people would dress up as ghosts and scary things so the
dead souls would think that they were dead too, or to scare
them away. Eventually, these two traditions combined,
creating Trick-or-Treating.
Source:
Simple Wikipedia: Halloween |
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YOUR Teacher:
Halloween is a really fun holiday for kids. When I was a
little boy growing up in New York I used to go
trick-or-treating with my friends. We were still in
elementary school at that time. We would go up and down
neighborhood streets visiting each house yelling "trick
or treat" and waiting for someone to give us treats. At
the end of the evening we would go to my house and
everyone would dump the contents of their bags on the
floor to see which treats they collected. Of course
everyone was hoping for lots of chocolates. |
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