Spooky Day

Spooky Day

This ESL lesson plan explores the festive traditions of Halloween through engaging reading and speaking activities. Students will complete quizzes, fill in text gaps, and discuss spooky decorations to enhance vocabulary and conversational skills. Designed for A1/A2 learners, this lesson combines interactive exercises and creative descriptions to build confidence in speaking and comprehension.

Skills

  • Can understand in outline short texts in illustrated stories, provided that the images help him/her to guess a lot of the content.
  • Can give a simple description of an object or picture while showing it to others using basic words, phrases and formulaic expressions, provided he/she can prepare in advance.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm-up

Do the quiz to check what you know about Halloween and learn something new! Check it with the rest of the group.
1
What do children do when they go trick-or-treating on Halloween?
2
What do people carve to make jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween?
3
Which of these is a popular Halloween game in the United States?
4
How do people in the United Kingdom celebrate Halloween compared to the United States?
5
What do people in both the United States and the United Kingdom often do for Halloween?
2

Read the blog post of a woman from a small town in Virginia that tells about her preparations for Halloween. Fill in the gaps with the articles "a" or "the".

3

Answer the questions about the text

4

Watch this video.

5

Imagine that you need to decorate your house for Halloween. Describe what it looks like after you finish decorating.

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