Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below! Celebrated, jack-o-lantern, costumes, skeletons, tradition, witches, treats, candle, ghosts, pumpkin, evil, trick, dead, trick or treat
Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below!
Celebrated, jack-o-lantern, costumes, skeletons, tradition, witches, treats, candle, ghosts, pumpkin, evil, trick, dead, trick or treat
The old word Halloween, or Hallowe’en, was originally “Hallows Evening” the night before All Hallows or All Saints’ Day.
(1) on October 31st, Halloween is a night when spirits of the
(2) were believed to walk the earth. Now people (especially children) observe this holiday by dressing up in
(3) of
(4) (spirits),
(5) (women with bad magical power),
(6) (the bones), bats, black cats etc. and going door to door to get sweets. The children shout “
!" (7), and you’d better give them some candies – some
(8) or they might just play a nasty
(9) on you, like throwing toilet paper on a tree in front of your house.
Another Halloween
(10) is to carve a
(11) from a big, round vegetable called
(12). First, you cut a hole in the top, take out the insides, then cut holes for the eyes, nose and mouth and finally put a
(13) inside it so that the face glows in the night and protects you from the
(14) spirits.
Glossary:
Evil = bad and cruel
To glow = produce a continuous light or heat
Nasty = bad or very unpleasant
Observe a holiday = celebrate a holiday
Treat = sweet, goody, delicacy
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