Happy Halloween - English Vocabulary Exercise

The History of Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe’en which is the contraction of All Hallows’ Evening, is an annual celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31st, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. According to many scholars, All Hallows’ Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, and also possibly with pagan roots.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing funny pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Some Verb Practice

Step 1 – Identify the meaning of the verb. Step 2 – Conjugate the verb in the simple past and past participle. See examples below.

INFINITIVE – SIMPLE PAST – PAST PARTICIPLE

1. to carve – ______-______

2. to decorate – _________-_________

3. to bob – ______-______

4. to light – ___-___

5 to frighten – __________-__________

6. to trick – _______-_______

7. to treat – _______-_______

Step 3 – try to use these 7 lucky verbs as much as possible!

Halloween by the Numbers

36,000,000 estimated trick-or-treaters in 2020, across the United States.

92% of households consider their neighborhoods safe.

78% said they were safe within 1 mile of their homes.

24.3 pounds of candy consumption per American in 2018.

931 million pounds of total pumpkin production in the US in 2019.

Phrasal Verbs

to freak out

to hand out

to turn into

Quotes to Think About

«On Halloween, the parents send their kids out dressed-up looking like me!»

– Rodney Dangerfield

«On Halloween, the parents send their kids out dressed-up looking like me!»

«Being successful means that people dress up like you for Halloween.»

-Freddie Mercury

«Being successful means that people dress up like you for Halloween.»

Adjectives

haunted

terrifying

creepy

scary

spooky

freaky

evil

gloomy

dark

dressed-up

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