HALLOWEEN (DICTIONARY ACTIVITY)

HI EVERYONE! The publishing house OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (OUP) has kindly sent teachers a number of Halloween activities. If you want to learn new vocabulary or halloween customs around the world, please, do them!!

Dictionary Activity .  Use the link below to get the anwswers for most of the questions.

  OXFORD LEARNERS DICTIONARIES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  

A.  Which one of these words doesn’t mean scared?

afraid     terrified    terrific     frightened     spooked




  B.  What does a witch use a cauldron for?  
  
a)  to cook potions in
 b)  to travel from one place to another
 c)  to fnd a magic spell

   

C.  According to a legend, a witch used to live in Wookey Hole in South West England.   Wooky Hole isn’t a house or a town … what is it?


D.  In 1692, in the USA, twenty girls were accused of being witches at the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller wrote a play about it. What’s the name of the play?

E.  Zombies  appear in horror flms.  They are dead people who walk the Earth. Where does the idea of zombies originate?

F.  What kind of witch is a white witch?

G.  What is witch hazel:

    1  Something a witch uses as transport.
    2  A liquid that is used for treating injuries on the skin.
    3  A shade of green-brown.

H.  What happens in a witch-hunt?
    1  People with unacceptable ideas are found and punished.
    2  Witches are found and punished.
    3  People fnd and punish witches.


I.  Where do we normally find witch doctors?
    1  America
    2  Asia
    3  Africa