Halloween!

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.

Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.

The day is often associated with the colours black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. 






Halloween film!

This year we watched a halloween film, The Others.

1.-Characters: write about
2.-The plot
3.-Vocabulary


1.-Characters

• Grace Steward

A women who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convenced that her family house is haunted. She is the mum of two photosensitive children: Anne and Nicolas.

• Nicolas

 Nicolas is the boy ,he is a photosensitive boy, and his mother is Grace Stewart. He loves his mum and he is younger than the girl, Anne.He is short and he has short hair.

• Anne

Anne is the girl. She is photosensitive girl, she can't go to the sun light and her mother is Grace Steward. She is convinced that her mother went crazy and she doesn't trust her. She thinks that the hous is hounted to a ghost family, and the boy called Victor.

 

• Bertha Mills. 

Bertha Mills is one of the maids who arrive in Grace's and children house. Bertha, accompained for Mr. Edmund Tuttle (the gardner) and Livia (a mute maid) helps Bertha and children to discover that they are all ghosts.

2.- The plot
This year we watched The Others, a halloween film. This film talks about a family(Grace Stewart, Anne and Victor) that they hired three people. These, are ghogosts. Grace, the mother, is convinced that her family house is hounted for intruders, but they are the real intruders because one day, she went crazy and she killed her children. Later, one family went to the house for live there and anne started to talk with Victor, the younger boy of the family. They discovered that in these house there were ghosts who were the maids, the gardner and Anne Victor and Grace. Finally, when the human family discovered that in these house were ghosts they decided to went out of there. Anne, Victor and Grace discovered thanks to the maid that they were ghosts too, and they promised that they never wen out of their house.

3.- Vocabulary(minimum 10 words)
Bleed- perdre sang.
Blod- sang
haunted- encantada.
intruders-intrusos
pillow-coixí
remain-quedar-se
mad-boja/enfedada
treaggor-gatell.
bleading-respirar fort
photosensitive- fotosensible (no llum solar)