The story of Halloween

Posted on 28 October 2012 by gsalvia

During this week you had a conference about the story of Halloween. You could understand a lot of information about the origins of this festivity celebrated on the 31st October.

ACTIVITY: Post a summary of it.

Here you have some of the vocabulary you could hear and the images you could see.

Part 1 – From Celtic times:

Celtic invasion Druids Stonehenge

Celtic invasion              Druids             Stonehenge

Autumn Harvest

Autumn                         Harvest

Chestnuts Costumes

Chestnuts                      Costumes

Part 2– From Christian times:

Soul’s Day Candle

Soul’s Day or All Hallows Day

Other:

Trick or Treat Pumpkin

Trick or Treat            Jack o’Lantern

 

The history of Halloween

All about Halloween

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One Response to The story of Halloween

  1. laia millan 2C says:
    10 November 2012 at 10:13

    Hola Gemma,
    la tradicio de hallowen la van començar els celtes. Es feia el dia 31 d’octubre i es feia per a que els deus o els difunts els donesin bona cullita i per aquet motiu es una carabassa. Aquesta tadicio s’ ha anat espandint per tot el mon, d’aqui han sortit les disfreses, etc.

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