Visual Modality: Picture Predictions
Objective: Activate students’ prior knowledge and introduce Halloween-related vocabulary.
- Instructions: Show students a series of images related to Halloween (e.g., costumes, jack-o’-lanterns, trick-or-treating, haunted houses). Ask students to work in pairs or small groups to describe what they see and predict how these images are connected to Halloween in the U.S.
- Follow-up Questions:
- What do you think people do during Halloween?
- Why do you think these objects or activities are important to this holiday?
- Do you celebrate anything similar in your country?
Auditory Modality: Sound Scenarios
Objective: Engage students through sound-based predictions and discussion about Halloween traditions.
- Instructions: Play a series of sound clips related to Halloween (e.g., eerie music, children saying “trick or treat,” a door creaking, a crowd cheering). After each sound, ask students to brainstorm what might be happening and how it could relate to Halloween. Then, as a class, discuss how these sounds might be linked to Halloween activities in the U.S.
- Follow-up Questions:
- How do these sounds make you feel? Why do you think these types of sounds are associated with Halloween?
- What kind of events or activities might include these sounds?
Hi, I’m Randall, and I’m here in front of our house. It’s Halloween here in the United States, and uh, traditionally, people, uh, children, would go from house to house collecting candy; however, there is a growing tradition in many parts where families in a particular neighborhood will gather in a parking lot with their cars, decorate their cars and, uh, their trunks, and then, the children can go from car to car and collect, uh, candy.
Uh, one of the things we do at home, or course, we still have candy in our home, and what type of candy do we give out? The good stuff. In other words, the stuff I would want to eat when all of the trick-or-treaters have gone home.