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Halloween Tour

witch riding broomstick and carrying jack-o'-lanternWelcome to SCOOL's Halloween Tour!

This tour is designed to help you improve:
  • your knowledge of English-speaking culture
    -     learn about the history and traditions of the festival of Halloween
  • your English language skills
    -     Vocabulary: practise special vocabulary connected with Halloween
    -     Listening: listen to a pop song popular at Halloween
    -     Writing: send a Halloween picture e-Card

So let's start the tour!

skeleton1. Learn about the history and traditions of the festival of Halloween

Go to the Halloween festival page for links to more information about Halloween.

vampire2. Improve your English: Halloween vocabulary practice

Go to the Halloween festival page for links to more language practice.

3. Listening: Listen to a pop song

  • Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers at ESL Halloween Haunted House: Listen to a popular, scary pop song and complete the text with the missing articles (a, an, the). (Real Player required)

Go to the Halloween festival page for links to more listening practice.

Well, that's the end of the tour.

We hope you learned something from it.

Bye-bye till next time!

Geoff Taylor
Co-ordinator
St Clare's, Oxford, On-Line

Source of pictures: one or more may come from Kid's Domain