HALLOWEEN READING CONTEST / 1º - 2º ESO

Would you like to TRICK OR TREAT and win some Halloween sweets? If you want to enter the contest you only have to read about Halloween and look for information to answer the questions below. Then, pick up a paper from the poster next to the library, write the correct answer to the questions and put the paper inside the English letterbox before Wednesday 29th. The list of the winners will be on display on Thursday 30th. HAVE A TERRIFIC TIME!

Note: you can only get SOME answers to the questions after reading this text.

 You will have to find some information on the Internet 

or in books about Halloween to answer ALL the questions!!

1. On which day is Halloween celebrated?

a) 31st October          b) 30th October             c) 15th October             d) 1st October

2. Before pumpkins, what did the Irish use to make the Jack o' lanterns?

a)  Potatoes                b) Turnips                         c) Rutabagas                  d) All of them

3. What is another name for Halloween?

a) Feast of the dead         b) Samhain                c) All Hallows Eve          d) All of them

4. 'Lamb's Wool' (a popular Halloween drink in the 18th Century) was made of milk and...

a) Chestnuts              b) Grapes                           c) Apples                         d) Potatoes

5. When did the Celts celebrate their new year?

a) 13th October         b) 1st November              c) 1st January               d) 21st December

6. What is the phobia of Halloween called?
a) Samhainophobia       b) Hylophobia       c) Claustrophobia            d) Hellenologophobia

7. Children who go ‘trick or treating’…

a) ask for eggs or soap to play tricks   b) ask for sweets    c) give you sweets or money

d) spray shaving cream on the people when they open the door

8. Some typical Halloween costumes are…

a) vampires and skeletons       b) vampires and fairies        c) ghosts and clowns  

d) bats and flowers

9. What do guests at a Halloween party bob for?

a) Apples         b) Skulls            c) Turnips         d) Oranges

10. To make a jack-o’-lantern you need…

a) some orange wax          b) a big carrot        c) a big turnip      d) a big pumpkin   

   

11. What does the word 'Hallow' mean?

a) Spook     b) Spirit        c) Sin         d) Saint

12. Which priests first celebrated Halloween?

a) French         b) Druids         c) Christians      d) Romans

13. What is a group of witches called?
a) Convoy             b) Commune           c) Cauldron          d) Coven

HALLOWEEN WRITING CONTEST / 3º ESO - 4º ESO: ARE YOU A VAMPIRE?

Are you good at writing? Would you like to win a prize? You can get some inspiration from this questionnaire about witches and create your own!! The topic is: "ARE YOU A VAMPIRE?"


You can pick a sheet from the poster next to the library and leave your writing inside the English letterbox before Wednesday 29th. You can also give it to Maribel or Merche. We will show a list of the winners on Thursday 30th.

HALLOWEEN READING CONTEST / BACHILLERATO: THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe

http://issuu.com/mercheblasco/docs/the_tell-tale_heart_proyecto_issuu._3d1835abbcba67/1

I hope you enjoy reading this terrifying and unforgettable tale by Edgar Allan Poe. To read it, simply click on the link above. If you want to enter the contest you only have to pick up a paper from the poster next to the library, answer the questions and put the paper inside the English letterbox before Wednesday 29th. The list of the winners will be on display on Thursday 30th. HAVE A TERRIFIC TIME!



Edgar Allan Poe

QUESTIONS:

1.  How was the man feeling at the opening of the story? A.  Angry B.  Nervous C.  Hungry 2.  What sense was acute in the beginning of the story? A.  Smell B.  Sight C.  Hearing 3.  Why did the man kill the old man? A.  For his gold B.  Because of his pale blue eye C.  Because the old man wronged him 4.  What did the man try to convince he was NOT? A.  Mad B.  Stupid C.  Evil 5.  What was the old man doing while he was sitting up in bed as he had done night after night? A.  Listening to a clock ticking B.  Listening to his beating heart C.  Hearkening to the death watches 6.  What caused the old man to feel the head of the man in his room (in the opinion of the man)? A.  The unperceived shadow B.  The beam of light C.  The creaking door 7.  How did the man describe the groan he heard? A.  One of pain B.  One of grief C.  One of mortal terror 8.  How did the man feel when he opened the lantern and saw the old man's open eye? A.  Furious B.  Afraid C.  Calm 9.  How did the man kill the old man? A.  By smothering him with a pillow B.  By choking him with his hands C.  By pulling the heavy bed over him 10.  Where did the man put the old man's body parts after he killed him? A.  Under the planks in the floor B.  In the old man's garden   C. In the old man's closet 11.  When there was a knock at the door after the old man's death, the man opened the door with a light heart.  Why? A.  He had thought up an alibi or cover story    for what had happened B.  He had a weapon on him C.  He thought everything was cleaned up with no evidence of blood. 12.  How did the police find out the man had killed the old man? A.  A neighbor said he saw the man kill the old man B.  The police found the body on their own as they searched the house C.  The man shrieked "I admit the deed!" 13.  What was the tell-tale heart? A.  The old man's heart B.  The man's beating heart C.  The heart of the unperceived shadow