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October 31 is Halloween and is now celebrated in many countries around the world, but do you know anything about the origins of this scary special day? Read the article and find out.
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The origins of Halloween
If you think of Halloween, you probably think of scary carved pumpkins, all kinds of fancy dress and children asking for sweets. And if you think of a country that celebrates Halloween, you probably think of the United States first. Americans and Canadians have adopted Halloween in a big way, but Halloween traditions actually come from 16th-century Ireland, Scotland and England.
The tradition of Halloween on 31 October comes from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain was the Celtic New Year and they celebrated it on 1 November because that was the end of summer and harvest time (life) and the beginning of winter (death). It was also the time for ghosts to return to earth for a day. People lit a big fire, wore special clothes made of animal skin and hoped to be safe from the ghosts and the winter. In AD 609, the Catholic Church put the Christian celebration of All Saints Day on 1 November. In AD 1000, the church added All Souls Day on 2 November, and All Hallows Eve â or Halloween â moved to the night of the 31st.
The Celts carved faces into vegetables like turnips, potatoes and squash (a pumpkin is a kind of squash) to scare the ghosts and other spirits and make them go away. It was sometimes called a jack-oâ-lantern because of an Irish story about a man, Jack. He played a trick on the devil and then had to walk the earth for all time as a punishment. Irish people who came to live in the United States in the 1800s found pumpkins much easier to carve, and the tradition became the one we see today.
Fancy dress
The Celts were afraid of the ghosts that came on Samhain. If they went outside after dark, they covered their faces with masks. They hoped any ghosts they met would think they were ghosts too and would leave them alone. In early America, the Native Americans and the first Europeans celebrated the end of the harvest, but not Halloween. When Irish people arrived, the harvest festival started to look more like Halloween and it became popular across the country. In the late 19th century, people tried to make Halloween less about ghosts and religion and more about celebrating the season with a party for neighbours and family. Thatâs why Americans today wear all kinds of Halloween costumes and not just scary things like witches and ghosts like in other countries.
Trick or treat
This is another tradition that began in Europe, this time in England. When the church introduced All Souls Day, rich people gave poor people âsoul cakesâ, a small cake made with spices and raisins. It replaced the Celtic tradition of leaving food outside houses for the ghosts. âGoing a-soulingâ was popular in England for hundreds of years until about the 1930s. The Americans kept the tradition, but today children knock on peopleâs doors and ask for sweets. Going trick or treating is so popular that a quarter of the sweets for the year in the United States are sold for this one day.
The rest of the world
Halloween has become the United Statesâ second-biggest commercial festival after Christmas. Halloween is also celebrated in other countries, but itâs not as big as in the United States, even in the countries where the traditions began. Mexico celebrates the Day of the Dead from 31 October to 2 November and some of its traditions, like giving gifts of sugar skulls, are starting to mix with Halloween. In this way, the celebration of Halloween continues to change as new traditions join the oldest of the Celtic ones.
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Unfortunately, I haven't celebrated Halloween in my life, I hope someday to visit a place where this tradition is celebrated. Every year I celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico, In my opinion, those celebrations are not similar at all and that's great. I think the Day of the Dead is more spiritual than Halloween but Halloween is more attractive to young people. I only wore a fancy dress as a ghost at school because we were studying the difference between the Day of the Dead and Halloween, anyway If I had read this article before, I would have known more about the history.
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âLa Castanyadaâ is the traditional festivity from Catalonia where we eat sweet potatoes and âpanelletsâ (typical bakery from the region).
We sing a children's song called âLa Castanyeraâ. We wear fancy dresses like in the rest of the world, but here there are people who dress up like the âcastanyeraâ (an old woman who sells chestnuts in the street).
On 31st October we get together with family and friends to eat chestnuts and the typical deserts.
Traditionally we do not celebrate Halloween in my country, however it is getting more and more popular these days, as people are having lots of fun wearing fancy dresses and having parties. It is very entertaining to see people in all these fascinating costumes, like once we saw a guy wearing The Witcher's costume and it was fantastic.
No i do not
Yes, I celebrate it and it is definietely my fav day. Unfortunately this year I am out of my country so its impossible for me. I love counting the sweets I got, as well as all the preparations related to this holiday! Basically I like all the costumes I see
I do not celebrate a Halloween, but I like this holiday as much I can. In Ukraine we have a lot of parties, people wear diferent fancy dress. But old people think that this holiday is about a devil and we do not need celebrate it.
My country doesn't celebrate Halloween because people are not used to this festival except my English center. But I like the fact that this festival was from an old Celtic tradition and after combining with other traditions, it is still exist today. In our culture, we believed that July is the month where ghosts can go up from hell to wander around and people will give them food in order to chase them away. I was born in July too so I hope there is no ghost in my body right now.
In my country peoples donât celebrate the Halloween. But,I like the Halloween, especially to watch American movies where they show how they decorate their homes, prepare for the holiday. It's something magical.
No ,I have never celebbrate Halloween party!I have never wore Fancy dress. It seems to me interesting and funy!
Here in Argentina It is not a tradition to celebrate Halloween, but since a few years, people have been making private fancy parties, and kids have been asking for candies. I would like to adopt this tradition just to have a good time with friends and family.
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8 Halloween English Lessons for Fun, Spooky Learning
Who doesn’t enjoy a well-orchestrated scary story?
Goosebumps and dim, creepy classrooms emitting ghoulish glows are what Halloween ESL lessons are all about!
But Halloween doesn’t have to be solely set on scary costumes and songs like “Thriller” or the “Monster Mash.”
Take the holiday and turn it into a howling Halloween lesson your students will love by implementing the class ideas below!
Spirited Warm-up Activities for a Halloween English Lesson
1. fright night stories, 2. writing scary stories, 3. what monster am i, 4. ghoulish idioms, 5. monster charades, 6. classroom haunted house, 7. explore the history of halloween, 8. do some halloween crafting.
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Warm-up activities are a crucial part of any ESL lesson, but Halloween warm-ups are way more exciting and fun.
To get everyone in the Halloween spirit, bring in a lamp and a red or orange bandana. Have your students get into a circle, turn on the lamp and then turn off the lights.
Put the bandana over your lamp to emit an eerie mood . Get into the center of the circle and start asking your students questions about Halloween.
Here are a few great example questions:
- Have you ever been trick-or-treating? Have you dressed up for Halloween?
- Do you celebrate Halloween in any way at home? If yes, what do you do?
- Have you seen any cartoons, movies or TV shows about Halloween?
- What frightening monsters are seen on Halloween? (If your students don’t know, describe a few.)
For adult ESL students, ask about scary movies and their favorite characters from the films you discuss . You can also ask if they have Halloween parties at work or in their hometowns.
A lesson in which you tell your students a few scary stories in the dark will help build their listening , discussion, prediction, writing and reading skills .
If you need some inspiration, the Huffington Post has a list of terrifying ghost stories you can use. Here are a few more that work really well.
To make things even spookier, you can screen some Halloween clips from the FluentU library . FluentU takes authentic videosâlike music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talksâand turns them into personalized language lessons.
Since videos are supported by interactive subtitles, your students won’t have any issues with keeping up, no matter what level they are.
You can request a free trial to explore how FluentU can add an immersive and native component to your class.
Many different countries have their own variations of these stories, so this is the perfect opportunity to explore them. Ask your students to describe different ghost stories they know. You could even have them write these out and present them to the class.
Lesson Procedure:Â
- For this activity example, we will use “Tap, Tap, Tap.” Have your class sit in a circle, and tell the story from the center.
- Stop halfway through the story and ask your students what they think will happen next. Have them pass the flashlight around while explaining their predictions.
- Make sure to add sound effects! There are many instances where you can use sound effects to make the “Tap, Tap, Tap” story more horrifying.
- When finished, turn on the lights and instruct your students to craft their own ending. This could be based on their predictions, or any other creative ideas they might have.
- Afterward, students can share their stories with the class. Set the Halloween scene again by turning off the lights, turning on the spooky lamp, and passing around the flashlight.
- The end of the lesson is a fun time to really discuss each other’s scary endings: Who liked what? Which characters were more scary?
Writing stories is a good way to practice verb tenses and become comfortable with using descriptive adjectives.
In this activity, you can give students a structured writing exercise that’s both fun and challenging at the same time.
Lesson Procedure:
- First, ask your students to brainstorm Halloween vocabulary in groups.
- Give out 15 small slips of paper to each group and have them write one word on each slip. Every group should have five slips with nouns, five with verbs and five with adjectives.
- Once all groups have written their words, collect their papers and switch them between groups, so each has a new set of words.
- Together, each group must use these words, as well as some of the Halloween vocab they’ve written, to write a short story.
- At the end of the lesson, have people present their story to the class.
This lesson is perfect for implementing collaboration, listening and reading skills, as students will compete in teams to earn points. You’ll need to create 10 descriptions of various monsters ahead of time.
For example, a description of Dracula might look like this:
I don’t sleep much at night and enjoy a cool dark place to sleep. I have sharp teeth and dislike Italian food because one ingredient disagrees with me. I have a hard time seeing myself and I was born in Eastern Europe. What monster am I?
Each team will read these descriptions aloud so their teammates can guess which monster they’re describing. The students reading the descriptions will not be allowed to use any monstrous movements to help their teammates guess.
- Divide your class into two teams.
- Have Team A choose a representative to read the first monster description you give them. Only readers can see the content, so listening skills play a major part in this activity.
- The team members from Team A will collaborate and get one guess.
- If Team A guesses the correct monster, they get a point. If they guess wrong, Team B gets a shot at guessing.
- The team with the most points wins!
Even though the English idioms involved in this ESL activity are geared towards Halloween, they have practical use year-round as well. This lesson promotes collaboration, communication, grammar, reading and understanding idioms.
First, you will need to develop a few ghoulish idioms for your students to use during the activity. Here are a few great examples:
- Blind as a bat
- Dig your own grave
- Pale as a ghost
- Skeleton in the closet
Once you have 15 to 20 idioms, print out the list and cut them into strips such that there’s one idiom per small slip of paper.
You could put all of the meanings on a single worksheet and make copies, or create a PowerPoint that has three or four different meanings per slide. During the lesson, students will have to match the idioms to their meanings, so you can set up the activity however you want it to run.
- Divide your students into small groups or pairs, depending on class size.
- Give each group a slip of paper containing one of your Halloween-themed idioms.
- Your student teams or pairs will read the idiom and the several choices of meanings (on a worksheet, PowerPoint presentation or another mode). Only one answer is correct.
- Each team or pair that chooses the correct meaning of their idiom gets a point. The lesson continues until there are no more idioms left.
Monster charades is somewhat similar to the “What Monster Am I?” activity. The only difference is that your students will use actions as their monster descriptions instead of words.
The ESL skills integrated into this activity include collaboration, description and quick English thought.
- Divide your students into two teams.
- On every turn, each team chooses a teammate who will act out a specific monster.
- Team A goes first, with their team representative standing up in front of both teams.
- Give the student a card with a monster/Halloween character, and the actions needed to create a descriptive pantomime. For example, Frankenstein’s monster has a very unique walk, as do zombies, and these are the actions the students can perform.
- As the student from Team A begins acting, Team A watches and discusses together what monster/character it is. They have only two guesses as a team before Team B gets to take a stab at it.
- Keep alternating turns between Teams A and B, continuing until class time runs out.
This Halloween ESL lesson will transform your classroom into a haunted house. Everyone likes a good Halloween scare, so what better way than to have one or two in a haunted house?
Having your students create ideas and transform their classroom into a haunted house is a great way to connect culturally, while having fun and learning essential ESL skills. This lesson promotes planning, discussion and vocabulary, as well as having total physical response (TPR) elements.
- First, it’s vital for everyone to understand the concept of a haunted house. Watch a video about one and discuss the details. ( Here’s a really neat video that goes behind-the-scenes of a haunted house.)
- Have a brainstorming session. Ask your students what their haunted house should have and where each area will be within the classroom. Write down their frightening thoughts on the board.
- Divide the work into groups by assigning each group to a specific section of the haunted house. This will promote TPR learning as students begin to move about into their specific areas.
- Once students are in their designated areas of the classroom, hand out the boxes of materials they can use to create their section of the haunted house.
- Parents are also great for haunted house spectators once the project is complete. You can also invite other classes or teachers go through your haunted house!
Provide a worksheet with a passage about the history of Halloween and how it’s celebrated.
History.com has a history of Halloween page you can use. Allow some time for your students to read through it, having them highlight any words or sentences they don’t understand, then provide some questions to make sure they’ve understood it.
You can use Breaking News English’s 100 Halloween Questions to wrap up the class and give students a chance to practice speaking. Some of my favorite questions to get the students talking are:
- What is the best Halloween food?
- Where in the world do people have picnics by the graves of relatives?
- Do you believe in ghosts?
- Hand out a printout of the History.com page on the history of Halloween.
- Give students some time to read through the printout, noting or highlighting any words and expressions they don’t understand.
- Go over the worksheet in class, giving definitions and examples of the unfamiliar vocabulary.
- Have a class discussion about the history of Halloween. This is a good chance to bring in your students’ cultures. Ask them to share some superstitions and cultural similarities (or differences) between their cultures and Halloween.
- Finish off by pairing students off and giving them a list of questions about Halloween to structure conversations around.
Halloween lessons don’t always have to be about speaking English. They can also be a chance to simply have some fun!
There are lots of different crafts you can try. Have your students carve jack-o-lanterns, make origami trick or treat bags, design their own costumes or even cook some Halloween-themed treats.
Parents.com has lots of Halloween craft ideas , and each one has an instructional video you can use for your class.
Not only will arts and crafts be a fun break from textbook activities, they can practice English by listening to your instructions.
- Choose a Halloween craft to do with the class. It should be age-appropriate, simple enough for any level of student and based on materials that you can easily acquire for an entire class.
- Hand out the materials to the students, along with a sheet of instructions.
- Go over the instructions as a whole class, making sure everyone understands what to doâand what not to do!
- Encourage students to talk among themselves in English as they complete the craft.
- After everyone is done, ask for some volunteers to show their craft to the class and talk about what parts they enjoyed or had trouble with, or simply ask them to describe their finished craft.
Holidays offer excellent opportunities for your students to learn new cultural themes and new vocabulary , all while having fun.
These Halloween lessons are also great for promoting communication between students. They’ll see a different cultural aspect through holiday-themed lessons that will get them ready for more practical skills down the ESL road.
Raise your students’ enthusiasm back from the grave and let their creativity haunt you this Halloween!
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10 Engaging ESL Halloween Activities for a Frightfully Fun Lesson
Rashmi chugani.
- October 3, 2023
Whenever Halloween is around the corner, ESL teachers have cause to be wickedly happy. Why? Because it’s the perfect time of the season to incorporate unique and fun games and exercises into your classroom! Check out these 10 ESL Halloween activities to get some ideas for young learners, teens, and adults learning English in the physical classroom or online.
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Halloween ESL games and activities for kids
1. halloween word search.
Every great ESL Halloween lesson plan should include a word search. This fun and relaxing activity is easy to explain and can help kids of all ages learn new vocabulary. You can create your own online word search for students learning remotely, or print out worksheets for the classroom.
2. Guess My Costume
Younger learners can also practice the seasonâs vocabulary with this ESL Halloween activity. Create a presentation where every slide is a classic Halloween costume, such as a black cat, a witch, or a pumpkin. Have the kids guess what each slide is showing and copy down the right answer for writing practice . Make sure youâre able to share your screen for online lessons!
Check out our top tips for creating materials for the EFL classroom.
3. Fill in the Blanks
You can create Halloween ESL worksheets to have students fill in the gaps in scary stories. Write your own or browse online for a simple story where students have to fill in certain words. You can use stories with a word bank or even opt for silly Mad Libs ! At the end, have students read the story aloud to you.
If creating your own story, you can choose to make the verb the missing word in the sentence so that kids can practice the past or present tense instead of vocabulary. Always remember that ESL Halloween activities can easily incorporate grammar !
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4. Draw Your Costume
For this activity, ask your students what their favorite Halloween costume is and why. Then, have them create a picture of themselves in the costume and describe it to you in detail. Pay close attention to adjectives such as color, size, and other features.
5. Halloween Story Video
One of the best Halloween ESL activities involves watching spooky videos. Students can practice their oratory skills by describing what they see, and watching videos also helps them learn new vocabulary. Choose a YouTube video, like the one below, that your students can watch in person or virtually, and pause it every time you notice a scene with many objects and characters. Have the students write a list of everything they see and reveal it at the end. Since kids love Halloween ESL games, you can even turn it into a competition to see who has the longest or most accurate list.
Halloween ESL lessons for adults or teens
6. halloween history quiz.
At the start of every ESL Halloween lesson, you should dive into the history of the festivity, so prepare a presentation or video about the subject, and then quiz students with a true or false game. For bonus points, whenever they guess âfalse,â make them tell you what the actual answer is.
Here’s an example video you could use for this activity:
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7. Ghost Story Time
Halloween ESL lessons for adults and teens can be a bit more mature in content. So, prepare a short horror story that students can take turns reading out loud. You can either create your own story or use a classic, like Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart or Charles Dickens’ The Signal-Man. After you have cleared any vocabulary doubts, you can test students’ reading comprehension by asking them questions about what theyâve just read.
If you want to challenge adult or teen learners even more, leave the ending to the ghost story open. Ask your students to describe what they think eventually happened.
Like incorporating storytelling in the classroom? Learn more about the increasingly popular language acquisition strategy of TPRS.
8. Words in a Word
For this activity, you can prepare Halloween ESL worksheets with themed words such as “Frankenstein,â âghost,â and âhaunted.â Have your students find other words within these and make a list. For example, if the word is “pumpkin,” students could list the words “pump,” “kin,” “pin” and so on. If you have more than one student during this game, turn it into a competition to see who comes up with the most correct answers.
9. Favorite Halloween Movie
One of the best parts about ESL Halloween activities is that you can talk about movies! You donât even have to enjoy horror flicks to watch films like The Addams Family or Hocus Pocus . Ask your adult students what their favorite Halloween movies are and why. You can also watch trailers or parts of the movie and pause during a specific scene to have students describe what they can see.
Love pop culture? Find out about eight ways to use pop culture in the ESL classroom.
10. Tradition Description
Halloween is primarily an American tradition filled with pumpkins and trick-or-treating. Keep in mind that your ESL students will probably come from other countries, so they may not celebrate Halloween or may celebrate differently. Using Halloween as an example, instruct them to prepare a few sentences describing a tradition in their home country. Ask them if thereâs a specific date, typical food, and traditional decor, as is the case with Halloween in the United States. For example, students from Mexico can dive into Dia de los Muertos, while those from China can describe their New Year. This oral activity is a great way to practice grammar, vocabulary, and ESL pronunciation .
Halloween is one of those traditions that can be very enjoyable for ESL teachers. Whether youâre preparing online lessons or teaching at the front of a classroom, there are many fun and interesting activities to guarantee a memorable spooky season.
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Fun Halloween Game
This Halloween PowerPoint game is a super fun Halloween PPT game for kids. This Halloween game is great for kids and beginner English language learners to have fun while learning about Halloween and Halloween vocabulary.
Halloween PowerPoint Game
How to play.
In this Halloween game, students will âRaceâ to the Halloween candy. To play, divide the students into 2 teams. One team is the âWitchâ and one team is the âGhostâ. The teams will take turns choosing a letter and then saying the Halloween word on the screen.
Next, click the home icon to return to the race. Click on the Witch / Ghost and it will move forward. The first team to reach the candy is the winner. This Halloween game is a lot of fun and a great way to learn Halloween words in English.
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8988 uses. 1mada. Halloween - game. A ppt game to practise Halloween vocabulary. 17 slides. Have fun mada :) 7710 uses. Clbr28. Halloween. Halloween guessing game, in which the student have to guess the name of the scary movie by uncovering the picture the is behind the puzzle.
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Americans and Canadians have adopted Halloween in a big way, but Halloween traditions actually come from 16th-century Ireland, Scotland and England. The tradition of Halloween on 31 October comes from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Samhain was the Celtic New Year and they celebrated it on 1 November because that was the end of summer ...
Halloween PPT. Download this Halloween PPT and use it in class today. This Halloween PowerPoint lesson is great for teaching Halloween vocabulary to kids and beginner English language learners. See below to preview and download this Halloween PPT and see the bottom of the page for related resources.
Halloween. Introducing presentation for children with the discription of the holiday in the UK and the USA, traditions, stories, new vocabulary, photos and a short qiuz (vocab) in the end.... 1170 uses. seredushka94. Halloween. There are 19 slides. It's better to use Power Point 2019, but can be shown on other versions.
16:9. Happy Halloween! Trick or Treat. Indulge in the spook-tacular fun with this Google Slides & PowerPoint template. This creatively unique tool adorns a dark, eerily delightful design that sets the perfect ambiance for Halloween storytelling. Whether you're throwing a ghoulish gala or just wanting to share spine-chilling tales, this template ...
It is a Halloween presentation that shows pictures of halloween symbols. It also includes some cultural aspects. Donate a coffee. Log in / Register. English ESL Powerpoints. General Topics. Holidays. Halloween Presentation. Evindel. 995. 20. 4. 0.
Spirited Warm-up Activities for a Halloween English Lesson. Warm-up activities are a crucial part of any ESL lesson, but Halloween warm-ups are way more exciting and fun. To get everyone in the Halloween spirit, bring in a lamp and a red or orange bandana. Have your students get into a circle, turn on the lamp and then turn off the lights.
25 templates. Create a blank Halloween Presentation. Trivia Night Halloween Presentation in Blue Yellow Orange 3D Style. Presentation by Canva Creative Studio. Greetings Halloween Presentation in Maroon Orange Yellow Gradients Style. Presentation by Canva Creative Studio.
For this unique English powerpoint lesson activity, students have to find the present tense verb in a sentence and then change that verb into the past tense.Your students will love playing this fun Halloween powerpoint game as they are reviewing verbs!. There are 25 sets of questions and answers in this powerpoint presentation, as well as a student response worksheet (shown below) for students ...
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It was brought to North America in the middle 1800s with the mass Irish immigration. Halloween at this time was much different that the Halloween we celebrate today. 3 of 18. Ancient Origins. Halloween's origin dates back to the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in) which was celebrated on October 31st.
Halloween vocabulary. Here is a colour powerpoint on Halloween to teach some typical Halloween vocabulary to ESL beginners with animated pictures to memorize new words: zombies, witches, ... 855 uses. RoxAcevedo85. Halloween Vocabulary. This ppt can be used to explain the most common words related to Halloween.
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Download the free printable worksheet lesson directly from my website: https://www.allthingstopics.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23290220/lesson-what-is-halloween-202...
1. Halloween Word Search. Every great ESL Halloween lesson plan should include a word search. This fun and relaxing activity is easy to explain and can help kids of all ages learn new vocabulary. You can create your own online word search for students learning remotely, or print out worksheets for the classroom.
With the spooky season upon us, it's time to celebrate in mystical style. Find templates for every theme, including Halloween parties, Zombie apocalypse, skulls and bones, pumpkins, haunted castles, vampires, witchcraft and wizardry, and more. Organize parties and events at school or work, create a Halloween newsletter, add a holiday theme to ...
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This Halloween PowerPoint game is a super fun Halloween PPT game for kids. This Halloween game is great for kids and beginner English language learners to have fun while learning about Halloween and Halloween vocabulary. Halloween PowerPoint Game How To Play. In this Halloween game, students will 'Race' to the Halloween candy.
Premium Google Slides theme and PowerPoint template. It's that time of year, it's Halloween! Here at Slidesgo, we've created this new free presentation template, whose design is focused on funny graphic elements, which makes it perfect for your audience to have a nice time paying attention to what you want to say.
English ESL Powerpoints. General Topics. Halloween
Happy Halloween Presentation . Multi-purpose . Free Google Slides theme and PowerPoint template . Now that the fall season has already begun, a certain holiday is upcoming, much anticipated by many people, especially kids. We're talking about Halloween! This new multi-purpose presentation template by Slidesgo is now available for you, full of ...