CALL lesson 2 (Oct 30-31)

It's Halloween. Boooo!!! Boooo!! Are there any ghosts, vampires or witches here?!

There's only this cute (= engraçada) little witch that I met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, on 31st Oct. 2000. Yes, six years ago I was in the States at this time.

Well, it's time to do some fun activities to celebrate Halloween, so… enjoy CALL lesson 2!!! 

 

 

Objectives

Students will:

— learn about the origins of Halloween,

— develop their reading, listening and speaking skills,

— learn and/or revise parts of the body.

 

 

Activities / Procedures

— read a short text about the origins of Halloween

"October 31st is Halloween. Where does Halloween come from? The Celts lived in Britain, Ireland and parts of France over 2,000 years ago, and October 31st was the end of their year. The Celts believed that ghosts came back to earth on this day. Today many people around the world celebrate this old festival – but today people usually have parties, dress up, and tell spooky stories about witches, skeletons, bats and ghosts. Have some Halloween fun!"  (British Council)

— do a fun quiz about Halloween to see how much you know and/or learned,

— listen to Ramona's voice message and answer her question in your notebook and then in a class voice message (go to the voice board), [this voice message isn't avalaible anymore]

— listen to The Scary Skeleton song, learn it and sing along with the skeleton (record with Audacity),

— do a matching quiz on parts of the body (that I created for you) to see how many body parts you learned today.

 

 

Help line

— double-click on Ramona's name to listen to her message, [not available anymore]

— click on the Leave me a message button to send Ramona a message,

— go to The Scary Skeleton song page to read the words; if you don't understand a word, double-click on it and you get a definition in another window,

— the quiz is only open for 5 minutes at a time (= de cada vez).

 

 

More activities / Follow-up

— review the parts of the body with a cloze exercise (that I created for you) based on "The Scary Skeleton" song

— listen to the story about The Magic Spell (= O Feitiço Mágico).

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Report on CALL lesson 2

This report is in Have Fun with English! 2. Click here.