Halloween Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: To learn and practise Preparation Time: 20 minutes

vocabulary related to Halloween and to practise Completion Time: 75 minutes
using imperatives.
Skill/Grammar: Speaking/Imperatives Age/Level: Adults/Elementary–Pre-Intermediate
Resources: A simple cardboard mask which you have already made, scissors, glue sticks, felt pens
and thin elastic. Apples and a large bowl. Access to a water tap. Halloween Worksheet, Halloween
Worksheet Key, Halloween Worksheet 2, Halloween Worksheet 2 Key, Apple Bobbing

Warm-Up (5 minutes)
• Write the word ‘Halloween’ in big letters in the middle of the board.
• Say to the class: Tell me any words you know to do with Halloween.
• Write all suggestions around the word on the board.
• Ask for definitions of words which not all the class know.
• Check and correct pronunciation of vocabulary.

Presentation and practise of vocabulary (20 minutes)

• Tell the class We will now look more at some Halloween words.
• Give out Halloween Worksheet.
• Check with Halloween Worksheet Key.

Answer Key:
1
pumpkins (h) trick or treating (a) costumes (b)
witches (e) scary stories (c) bats (f)
apples (i) black and orange (g) candle (d)

2
a foods for Halloween 5
b what to wear for Halloween 3
c other names for Halloween 1
d things to do for Halloween 2
e Halloween colours 4

• Then tell them to read Halloween Worksheet 2 and complete the exercises.

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• Check with Halloween Worksheet 2 Key.
Answer Key:
1
a vi g xii
b iv h iii
c xi i x
d ii j vii
e i k viii
f v l ix

2
Food Creature Place
sweets ghost cave
pumpkin werewolf castle
toffee apple black cat haunted house
vampire graveyard
zombie
witch
spider
bat

Presentation of Grammar (20 minutes)

• Tell the class they will now play a traditional English game which is associated with
Halloween.
• Use Apple Bobbing.
• Then focus on the grammar you used in the game. Write on the board:
Put your hands behind your back.
Keep them there.
Put your head down.
• Ask students: What was my aim when I said these things to you?
• If possible elicit: To give instructions.
• Ask students to give some more examples of things you said, e.g. Pick up an apple.
• Write these on the board too.
• Focus on the form: The same as infinitive without to.

Practice of Grammar (25 minutes)

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• Tell students they will now practise this language by instructing each other to make
masks. Show them your mask first.
• Teach them a few verbs such as cut, stick, draw, colour and tie. Leave these written
on the board.
• Now put the class into pairs and give one from each pair an A4 sheet of card.
• Give out scissors, pens, glue and elastic too.
• The other student in each pair must now give instructions on what to do, e.g. Cut a
circle, draw a mouth, etc.
• They can then swap roles.

Closure (5 minutes)
• Students can wear the masks!

Extension Activities
For more activities about Halloween see Halloween Brainstorm, Scary Consequences,
Spooky Statements, Pumpkin Pie Dialogue.

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