Halloween Special

Part 1: Matching Beasties
Part 2: Halloween Traditions
Part 4: "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe - Reading Comprehension

Study the following vocabulary related to Halloween and then take the quiz below.

• Bobbing for apples

  Noun (game) - This is a traditional Halloween game. You put apples in a barrel of water and people try to take the floating apples out of the water using only their mouths.

• Cackling

  Adjective - An evil, wild, otherworldly laughing sound

• Carve

  Verb - (regular: carve - carved - carved) to cut with a knive, in the context of a pumpkin to cut a face into the pumpkin.

• Evil

  Very bad behaviour with cruel intent.

• Haunted

  Location containing evil spirits or ghosts, usually a house or castle.

• Ghost

  Noun - the spirit of a dead person which appears again. Ghosts at Halloween are usually dressed in white sheets.

• Hideous

  Adjective - Something so ugly you cannot look at it.

• Horrified

  Adjective - very frightened, afraid or scared.

• Jack-o-lantern

  Noun - A carved pumpkin usually with a candle burning inside to illuminate the pumpkin.

• Pumpkin

  Noun - A large, orange vegetable in the squash family associated with Halloween.

• Skeleton

  Noun - The bone structre of a body without the flesh.

• "Trick or Treat"

  Saying - Used by children when going from house to house asking for candy. The phrase also means that if you don't give me a treat I will play a trick on you!

• Wicked

  Adjective - the same as evil.

• Witch

  Noun - A woman with magic powers (usually evil).

Choose the correct word from the list above to complete the senetence. Click on the arrow to check your answer.

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