Welcome to

1
Welcome to WiSE(Workshops in Speaking English)

• Tonight
• Halloween
• Stay here if you dare!
• Will this be a trick, or a treat?
• Maybe both!

2
Halloween, the word

• In Christian tradition, 11/1 is All Saints Day
• 10/31 is the eve (night before)
• All Saints gt All Holy gt All Hallowed
• Halloweds Evening gt Halloween
• In Celtic (Irish) tradition, 10/31 was the end of
  summer and start of the new year

3
Halloween, the history

• Spirits were supposed to come back from the dead
• People dressed in disguises to scare the spirits
  away
• In 9th century Europe, people begged for soul
  cakes (small pieces of cake) in exchange for
  saying a prayer for the dead
• Now, children in costume beg for candy

4
Halloween, important terms

• Jack olantern a pumpkin with a face carved
  out, and a candle inside to light the face
• Vampire from Romanian tradition, a dead person
  who continues to live if they drink human blood
• Dracula The name of a vampire in an 1897 novel
  by English author Bram Stoker. Often shown with
  a long black cape
• Bats Associated with Halloween because they are
  nocturnal also, a form that Dracula turned into.

5
Halloween, more terms

• Trick or treat what children say when they beg
  for candy
• Skeleton often used at Halloween to portray
  death
• Witch another common Halloween decoration,
  usually a tall thin woman on a broomstick flying
  across the night sky.
• Ghost a disembodied spirit of someone who has
  died

6
Halloween traditions

• Dress in costumes
• Have a party!
• Go Trick or treating (children only)
• Give candy or small toys to trick or treaters
• Ask about kids (or adults) costumes(What were
  you for Halloween?)
• Tell ghost stories or other scary tales

7
Thanks for coming!

• Have a great Halloween!
• (and fill out the evaluation form before you
  leave)