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Halloween - british council magazine

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Do you celebrate Halloween?

What’s the best fancy dress you’ve ever seen?

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2.

Match the traditions in the correct group.

Categorize the following

going trick or treating

celebrating with friends and family

going a-souling

scaring ghosts and spirits away

carving pumpkins

wearing fancy dress

Modern traditions
Past traditions
Traditions that are both past and modern
3.

Which country was the last to start Halloween celebrations?

a)

the United States

b)

England

c)

Ireland

d)

Scotland

4.

For the ancient Celts, winter was …

a)

a time for celebrations

b)

a time when life became harder

c)

when they went to church

d)

when they saw ghosts

5.

Why did the Irish start carving faces into pumpkins instead of turnips and potatoes?

a)

There weren’t any turnips and potatoes in the United States.

b)

They brought the pumpkins with them from Ireland.

c)

Pumpkins were less difficult to carve.

d)

Pumpkins were a punishment for doing bad things.

6.

American Halloween today is …

a)

less scary than in the past.

b)

scarier than in the past.

c)

less popular than when the first people came to America.

d)

similar to the way the Native Americans celebrated the end of the harvest.

7.

Which tradition was the earliest?

a)

going a-souling

b)

giving soul cakes to the poor

c)

leaving food outside houses

d)

trick or treating

8.

Which sentence about Halloween is true?

a)

Halloween is still changing today.

b)

Halloween has not changed much.

c)

Halloween will probably not change much in the future.

d)

Halloween will be replaced by the Day of the Dead.