Halloween Lessons Using Authentic Material

Halloween has come to terrorize y’all’s neighborhoods! I don’t know about you, but Halloween has always made me so excited that I have to hold my horses to go off the limits! If I could, I would fill my classroom with fake insects, mummies, witches and all sorta of “spooky-related” stuff. For that, I have come up with six different lessons from A1 to B2 levels using TV series and movies segments. They are mostly based on listening comprehension and organized in lead-in/vocabulary task > gist task > detail task > follow-up.

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A1 Handout Answer Key

Ex. 1: Zombie / Pumpkin; Witch / Vampire; Frankenstein / Ghost

Ex. 2: – ; tick; tick; tick; – .

Ex. 3: 9; 1; 10; 2; 4; 6; 8; 5; 3; 11; 7.

A1+ Handout Answer Key

Ex.3: F (not happy); F (dinosaur); T; T; F (borrow); T; F (fashion); T; T; F (because the girl said she loved); T.

A2 Handout Answer Key

Ex. 3: : F (hates); T; T; F (few); T; F (trunk); F (taken); T; T.

A2+ Handout Answer Key

Ex. 3: a) C; b) B; c) C; d) A; e) C; f) A.

B1 Handout Answer Key

Ex. 1: a) so-and-so; b) congratulated; c)trick-or-treat; d) make up your mind; e) heart condition.

Ex. 2: Yes, partially.

Ex. 3: a) A; b) B; c) C; d) A; e) B; f) C; g) A.

B2 Handout Answer Key

Ex. 1: a) tale; b) wand; c) quarrel; d) cunning; e) drown; f) winding; g) cloak; h) twilight; i) untimely.

Ex. 2: tick; tick; -; -; tick; tick.

Ex. 3: a) No, Harry isn’t. b) Twilight / midnight. c) By using magic. d) Death did. e) Deceived because they were supposed to die while crossing the river. f) the most powerful wand; the resurrection stone and the invisibility cloak. g) He was murdered after a fight. h) He hanged himself. i) He peacefully died many years later.

I hope you like it! :D Leave your feedback in the comments, pleeeeease!