Festivals
Learning objectives
• Name Halloween vocabulary
• Sing and act out the song It’s Halloween tonight!
• Match and color the Halloween pictures
• Participate in celebrating a festival
Teacher’s tip: Decorating
and dressing up
Decorate the classroom for Halloween
by having the children cut out ghost
shapes out of paper. Cut templates
out of card for the children to draw around.
Additionally, allow the children to come to class
dressed up for Halloween and to sing the song
and do the Halloween activities in costume. Ask
the teacher to send a note home to the parents
in advance of the lesson.
Circle time
Hello song and puppet (see TB p 17 & 21)
Opening routines (see TB p 16)
Lesson aims (see TB p 18)
Introduce Halloween.
• Ask children if they want to celebrate Halloween in
English.
• Ask them to name things they associate with
Halloween in their shared language.
• Use the puppet to show the flashcards and introduce
the new words (ghost, monster, owl, spider). Say
each word and children repeat it.
• Put the Wheel Mat on the floor with the flashcards
face down (on different colored pods). Use the
puppet to turn them over and name them. The
children repeat the words.
Game: Say the color!
• Name the Halloween words and children say the
color of the wheel. Then the reverse.
Materials
• Halloween flashcards, Wheel Mat, Mimi puppet
Game: Mime and say!
• Mime the Halloween words in turn. Children say the
words or point to them on the Wheel Mat.
• Name the words in random order. Children mime
them and say the words.
Game: Guess which one!
• Describe the Halloween creatures and have children
say them e.g. It has eight legs (spider). It’s big and
blue (monster) etc.
It’s Halloween tonight! song  Oh, and look! There’s a witch, cat, bat, and a
• Lay out the flashcards face up on the floor and say
Let’s listen to the song It’s Halloween tonight!.
• Children listen and point to the flashcards.
• Play the audio again. Children listen and join in
singing the song and miming the actions.
It’s Halloween tonight. (Hop from one leg to the other)
It’s Halloween tonight.
There’s a ghost! There’s a ghost! (Mime being a ghost)
Oh, what a fright! (Mime being scared)
(Chorus)
There’s an owl! There’s an owl! (Circle your eyes with
thumb and forefinger)
Oh, what a fright!
(Chorus)
There’s a monster! There’s a monster! (Walk like
Frankenstein)
Oh, what a fright!
(Chorus)
There’s a spider! There’s a spider! (Run your hand up
your other arm like a spider)
Oh, what a fright!
Ferris Wheel Level 3 @ Springer Nature Limited 2019
Halloween
Main vocabulary
• bat, cat, ghost, Halloween, monster, owl,
pumpkin, spider, witch; There’s a (ghost)
Table time
Listen, point and say.
• Hold up the page. Point to the pictures in turn.
• Play the audio. Children join in pointing to the
pictures on the page and saying the words.
It’s Halloween.
Look! There’s a ghost … There’s an owl… There’s
a monster … and there’s a spider!
pumpkin!
Listen and sing It’s Halloween tonight!  
• Play the song again. Children join in singing the song.
• Optionally, use the karaoke version of the audio with
other Halloween vocabulary that they know.
Match and color the pictures.
• Children match the pictures at the top of the page to
the Halloween creatures in the scene.
• Children color the body parts.
Draw your favorite thing at Halloween. Say.
• Children draw their favorite Halloween creature.
• Ask children what’s their favorite thing at Halloween,
and children respond.
• Say Happy Halloween! and encourage children to
say this to each other and to you.
Closing time
Learning review (see TB p 18)
Closing routines (see TB p 16)
Goodbye song and puppet (see TB p 17 & 21)