Halloween Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: To learn and practise vocabulary related to Halloween and to practise using imperatives. Skill/Grammar: Speaking/Imperatives Age/Level: Adults/ElementaryPre-Intermediate Preparation Time: 20 minutes Completion Time: 75 minutes

Resources: A simple cardboard mask which you have already made, scissors, glue sticks, felt pens and thin elastic. Apples and a large bowl. Access to a water tap. Halloween Worksheet, Halloween Worksheet Key, Halloween Worksheet 2, Halloween Worksheet 2 Key, Apple Bobbing

Warm-Up (5 minutes)
Write the word Halloween in big letters in the middle of the board. Say to the class: Tell me any words you know to do with Halloween. Write all suggestions around the word on the board. Ask for definitions of words which not all the class know. Check and correct pronunciation of vocabulary.

Presentation and practise of vocabulary (20 minutes)

Tell the class We will now look more at some Halloween words. Give out Halloween Worksheet. Check with Halloween Worksheet Key.

Answer Key: 1 pumpkins (h) witches (e) apples (i) trick or treating (a) scary stories (c) black and orange (g) costumes (b) bats (f) candle (d)

2 a b c d e foods for Halloween what to wear for Halloween other names for Halloween things to do for Halloween Halloween colours 5 3 1 2 4

Author: Louise Delahay r: Jones. Katie Pearson Education 2010

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Then tell them to read Halloween Worksheet 2 and complete the exercises. Check with Halloween Worksheet 2 Key.

Answer Key:

2 Food sweets pumpkin toffee apple Creature ghost werewolf black cat vampire zombie witch spider bat Place cave castle haunted house graveyard

Presentation of Grammar (20 minutes)

Tell the class they will now play a traditional English game which is associated with Halloween. Use Apple Bobbing. Then focus on the grammar you used in the game. Write on the board: Put your hands behind your back. Keep them there. Put your head down. Ask students: What was my aim when I said these things to you? If possible elicit: To give instructions. Ask students to give some more examples of things you said, e.g. Pick up an apple. Write these on the board too. Focus on the form: The same as infinitive without to.

Author: Louise Delahay r: Jones. Katie Pearson Education 2010

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Practice of Grammar (25 minutes)
Tell students they will now practise this language by instructing each other to make masks. Show them your mask first. Teach them a few verbs such as cut, stick, draw, colour and tie. Leave these written on the board. Now put the class into pairs and give one from each pair an A4 sheet of card. Give out scissors, pens, glue and elastic too. The other student in each pair must now give instructions on what to do, e.g. Cut a circle, draw a mouth, etc. They can then swap roles.

Closure (5 minutes)
Students can wear the masks!

Extension Activities
For more activities about Halloween see Halloween Brainstorm, Scary Consequences, Spooky Statements, Pumpkin Pie Dialogue.

Author: Louise Delahay r: Jones. Katie Pearson Education 2010

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