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HALLOWEEN

Read this text very carefully and do the Written Comprehension exercice. 

 

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Written Comprehension

 

 

On the night of October 31st, all around the USA, witches, ghosts and skeletons walk silently in the night. 

Terrifying? Not at all! 

They are only people in costumes, celebrating Halloween, a very amusing holiday.

 

In fact, Halloween is an ancient celtic festival:

it is a time to remember the souls of the dead before November 1st which is All Saints' Day.

 

 

 

 

 

Nowadays, children go from house to house, dressed up as little monsters, asking for sweets or money and saying "trick or treat". They mean that if people don't give them anything they will play a trick on them!

They carry a jack o'lantern : a face carved in a big pumpkin with a lighted candle inside.

 

 

 

As for grown-ups, they organise parties. Their houses are decorated in orange and black (the two colours for Halloween) and they have to terrify their guests by hanging spiders, skulls, and bats everywhere.

 

For dinner, people have pumpkin soups and pumpkin pies!

 

 

 

WRITTEN COMPREHENSION

 

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT

  1. What is the holiday we speak about?
  2. Where is it celebrated?
  3. When is it celebrated?
  4. What costumes can you see?
  5. Where does it come from?
  6. What does it commemorate?
  7. What do children do?
  8. Why?
  9. What about adults?
  10. What are the 2 colours of this holiday?
  11. What are the animals related to that holiday?
  12. What sort of food do they cook?

 

Find in the text the words: 

une chauve souris, un crâne, une citrouille, des sorcières, des bonbons, des bougies

 

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