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WorksheetsHalloween - british council magazine
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 9mins
Do you celebrate Halloween?
What’s the best fancy dress you’ve ever seen?
Match the traditions in the correct group.
going trick or treating
celebrating with friends and family
going a-souling
scaring ghosts and spirits away
carving pumpkins
wearing fancy dress
Which country was the last to start Halloween celebrations?
the United States
England
Ireland
Scotland
For the ancient Celts, winter was …
a time for celebrations
a time when life became harder
when they went to church
when they saw ghosts
Why did the Irish start carving faces into pumpkins instead of turnips and potatoes?
There weren’t any turnips and potatoes in the United States.
They brought the pumpkins with them from Ireland.
Pumpkins were less difficult to carve.
Pumpkins were a punishment for doing bad things.
American Halloween today is …
less scary than in the past.
scarier than in the past.
less popular than when the first people came to America.
similar to the way the Native Americans celebrated the end of the harvest.
Which tradition was the earliest?
going a-souling
giving soul cakes to the poor
leaving food outside houses
trick or treating
Which sentence about Halloween is true?
Halloween is still changing today.
Halloween has not changed much.
Halloween will probably not change much in the future.
Halloween will be replaced by the Day of the Dead.
