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Pre-reading activity

IMPERATIVE
GENITIVE

This text is about celebration on October 31st, the night before November 1st.
1. What do we do on November 1st in our country?
2. Do we have any special parties on October 31st?
Read the text and answer the following questions:
1. Where do children celebrate Hallowe'en?
At school.
2. What costumes do they wear?
They wear costumes like skeletons, vampires, aliens.
3. When do Slovene children put their masks on?

In the parties.
Nika: Do you know that it is October 31 today?
Timi: Yes, tomorrow is November 1st when we light candles on the graves.
Nika: But British and American children celebrate Hallowe'en on October 31 st.
They put pumpkins with candles in front of the doors and in the gardens.
The legend says that ghosts and witches are free on Hallowe'en. And if you
put on a scary mask they run away.
Timi: Today children wear costumes to make them look like skeletons, vampires
or aliens or they put on Dracula or Frankenstein masks.
Nika: Oh, like we do for pust.
Timi: Yes. In America children in primary schools have parties at school. They wear
costumes and the best mask is the winner.
Nika: They eat toffee apples, peanuts, popcorn and pumpkin pie. And they play
funny games like bobbing for apples.
Timi: Let's play it together. I'm sure it's easy and I could be the winner. Nika: OK,
but stop boasting. It's not as easy as you think.
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1.
Timi and Nika are playing bobbing or dunking for apples. Nika is telling
Timi what to do. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs. You
find them on the basin.

1. Take a basin, but not take.. a small

one.
2. ........Fill............... it with water.
3. ...............Put...... some apples
into the water.

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............Take............. the apple from the

basin, but
.............not use............... your
hands.
5.
..........Keep............. your hands behind
your back.
6.
.....Use................... only your teeth.
Do you know how to make your own Hallowe'en pumpkin, JACK-OLANTERN? Use words from the box and complete the text.
2.

candle

mouth
eyes

nose
pumpkin

Take a ...........large.........
pumpkin.
...........eyes...........,

the ............nose.......,

3.

large

First take out the

Cut the holes for
middle of the
the
...........pumpkin............

and the ..mouth..............

Put a candle... in it.

Compare Nika's and Timi's pumpkins. Use these opposites:

small

- big

horrible kind

happy sad

square round

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Timis pumpkin is .......big..............

Its ............................sad .........
Its ......................horrible.........
Its eyes are ..........square........

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Mikas pumpkin is ..small.............

Its ........happy..........................
Its ...........kind.........................
Its eyes are .....round.................

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Write under the pictures whose the things are. Match the names and the

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Make genitives and write sentences. Use adjectives you find on the pumpkin. How
many adjectives can you use in each sentence?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

My friend / pumpkin My friends pumpkin is big, interesting.

Mika/costume ........Mikas costume is new and colourful......
Timi/Jack-o-Lantern ...Timis Jack-o-Lantern is small and short.........
Their parents/lamp .....Their parents lamp is new and big..............
Mika/candle ......Mikas candle is small and short.........................
The pumpkin/eyes ...The pumpkins eyes are small....................
The children/trick .....The childrens trick is interesting....................
Their friends/masks ..Their friends masks are good and colorful.......................
Vicky/toffee apples . Vickys toffee apples are delicious and big................
Your Mum/popcorn ....Your Mums popcorn is good and sweet....................

delicious big
new sweet
interesting
colourful
small old short

good

6.Make some toffee apples for your party. Use the correct forms of the words you
find on the apples and complete the recipe.
Ingredients:

4 apples
200 g sugar
4 forks or wooden sticks

Procedure (Recipe):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

........Put................ sugar in a pan over a heat .

..........Stir.............. the sugar all the time, .....heat..................................
the pan on the cooker.
............Fill.......... each apple with a fork or stick.
When the sugar is brown, ........................... the apples one by one into it.
.......................... the apples round carefully.
When the apples are covered with the toffee, ............................ them out
Look at these ghosts. Put the opposites together and write them.

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bad
ugly
old
big
slim
nasty
tall

small
fat
good
short
kind
handsome
young
happy

sad

happy

bad

good

ugly

handsome

old

young

big

small

slim

fat

nasty

kind

tall

short

8.

You are a happy/sad ghost. Why are you happy/sad? Write about it in 50 words.

I'm a ghost. My name is ............I feel happy/sad today because

...............................................................................

Im a ghost. My

name is Skeleton. I felt happy today because I got a lot of candy and sugar. I visited all the
neighbours in my neighbourhood. I rang the door bell of my neighbours and played Trick and
treat. When they opened the door, I called with Trick or treat. All my neighbours were
kind . They gave me the candy or sugar.

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9.Do you know? Read and write the text.

Halloween is an old word for Hallows Evening, the night before all hallows or all
faints day. This is November 1st when we light candles for the dead.

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