Halloween in the UK - A2-B1 Holiday PDF

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A2–B1 Holiday CD Track 3 tf Activities w Recorded Text Halloween Festival of in the UK Fear: Who Invented Halloween? Task 1 Boo! Do people in the UK celebrate the Complete the text with the following words. frightening festival of Halloween, or is it visit commercial (adj.) blow up just a typically American tradition? Well, fireworks trick-or-treating the true story may surprise you just as much pumpkins the dead moved as finding a skeleton in the cupboard. Paul Martin (UK) Bonfire Night Today’s Spooky Scene At the same time in Britain, All-Hallows’ Eve Fast forward11 to the late 20th century, and was getting less popular. There were many thanks to American TV shows and films, reasons for this, but one important reason Brits saw how fun Halloween could be was that a celebration called Bonfire Night with its 5 ____________ and extravagant took the spotlight. costumes. Slowly, the UK started to put on Celebrated on November 5th, Bonfire Night its own Halloween with parties, spooky12 remembers the failed Gunpowder Plot decorations, trick-or-treating, and, yes, lots (= Spiknutí střelného prachu) of 1605, of 6 ____________. planned by a group of English Catholics Nowadays, Halloween is a big deal in the including a man called Guy Fawkes. They UK. Though it was once overshadowed13 were unhappy with King James I and by Bonfire Night, October 31st has made thought that he treated8 Catholics unfairly. a fantastic comeback. Stores are decked The plotters9 wanted to 3 ____________ out14 in orange and black and sell costumes the Houses of Parliament to kill the king and treats, and people 7 ____________ and other leaders, hoping this would allow farms to buy the biggest pumpkins possible a Catholic king to take over10. But the plot to decorate. was discovered, and Guy Fawkes and others Ancient Roots were killed. Long before Halloween became the sweet- British people celebrate Bonfire Night with filled, costume-crazy event we know today, 4 ____________ and bonfires to remember it started as a Celtic festival with pagan that the plot failed. Bonfire Night was soon roots1 called Samhain [ˈsaʊwɪn]. The festival a big late autumn event in the calendar. marked2 the end of the harvest season3 and This celebration became more popular than the start of winter. The Celts believed that All Hallows’ Eve in Britain for many years. during that time the boundary4 between the living and 1 ____________ disappeared, allowing spirits5 to walk around. Ghostly. How It Changed When the Romans conquered6 the Celtic lands, their festivals mixed with Samhain. Later, the Catholic Church7 made November What Do the Brits 1st All Saints’ Day. The night before was All- Really Think? Hallows’ Eve, or Hallowe’en. It’s a mix. Some people love the fun and Later, as Irish and Scottish people community vibes, dressing up, and enjoying 2 ____________ to America, they brought the spooky events. Others aren’t too keen, their autumn–winter traditions with them. viewing it as too 8 ____________ or just Over time, Halloween turned into the fun an American import. But one thing’s for American holiday we all know today, with sure – if you want, Halloween lets everyone costumes, sweets and parties. unleash their monster for the night. 4 Gate October 2024 Halloween Task 2 Match these definitions to the underlined idioms in the text. in a to become the centre of attention A Photo Guide to b to be wild Halloween in America something shocking Damien Galeone (US) c that you keep secret America Task 3 Do the sentences refer to the US, the UK or both? Halloween is one of America’s favorite holidays. People start celebrating People carve pumpkins 1 into jack-o’-lanterns. Halloween in early October. Schools have Halloween parties and towns hold Halloween festivals and parades15. Throughout October, millions of For a long time, Bonfire Night was Americans visit haunted houses16 (or haunted farms, hospitals, etc). 2 more popular than Halloween. Some towns have competitions to 3 find the best-decorated houses. 4 Kids go trick-or-treating. Before Halloween, people 5 celebrated Samhain. Solutions in the TF and on the web the following month Vocabulary 1 pagan roots [ˈpeɪɡən ruːts] – pohanské kořeny People decorate their homes with black cats, 2 to mark [mɑːk] – znamenat, označovat witches, and ghosts. But some decorate their 3 harvest season [hɑːvɪst ˈsiːzn] – homes and lawns17 more elaborately18, using fog období sklizně 4 machines or animated monsters. Some towns boundary [ˈbaʊndri] – hranice 5 even have house-decorating competitions. spirit [ˈspɪrɪt] – duch 6 to conquer [ˈkɒŋkə(r)] – dobýt 7 the Catholic Church [kæθlɪk ˈtʃɜːtʃ] – katolická církev 8 to treat [triːt] – zacházet 9 plotter [ˈplɒtə(r)] – spiklenec 10 to take over – převzít vládu 11 to fast-forward [ fɑːst ˈfɔːwəd] – přeskočit 12 spooky [ˈspuːki] – strašidelný 13 to overshadow [əʊvəˈʃædəʊ] – zastínit 14 to deck out [dek ˈaʊt] – vyzdobit 15 parade [pəˈreɪd] – průvod 16 haunted house [ ˈhɔːntɪd] – strašidelný dům 17 Another favorite Halloween lawn [lɔːn] – trávník 18 elaborately [ɪˈlæbərətli] – rafinovaně tradition is dressing up in 19 porch [pɔːtʃ] – veranda, zápraží costumes. Kids dress up as 20 to carve [kɑːv] – vyřezat vampires, werewolves, zombies, or even Kim Kardashian. Kim herself is a fan of dressing up for Halloween. Almost everyone The most fun Halloween tradition is trick-or-treating. In this puts a jack-o’-lantern tradition, kids in costumes visit their neighbors and say “trick on their porch19 at or treat”. The neighbors then give them candy. The phrase Halloween to show “trick or treat” is probably from the early 1900s. At that time, that trick-or-treaters when kids visited neighbors and said “trick or treat”, it meant are welcome. This that if they didn’t get sweets (a treat), they would play a joke is a pumpkin with on the house (a trick). This joke might be throwing eggs at a face carved20 into it the door or throwing toilet paper in their garden. and a candle inside. Gate October 2024 5