Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Halloween (The others)

THE OTHERS,  a terror fillm

2. Name the main characters in the film

  Grace            Mrs Mill
  Anne             Mrs Tuttle
  Nicholas        Víctor
  Lydia

3. VOCABULARY
Priest- capellà                      Breathing-respirar
Bless-beneïr                         Mad-loca
Buried-enterrat                     Grounded-castigada
Graveyard-cementiri             Hunted-caçat
Bleed-sagnar                        Elderly-envellit

4. 10 SENTENCES
-Grace, have two children called Anna and Nicholas, who are photosensitive
-The father came back from the war.
-They lived in and old house.
-Grace became mad, because she was alone with her children.
-The husband has left her.
-The children were killed.
-Grace suffocated her children, because she was mad.
-One day, the children got up and they saw the window without curtains, there was light!
-The fault was for the three servants, they wanted to kill the children
-They all were dead.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

What do you know about Halloween?

When and where is it celebrated?
It's celebrated on October 31 and it has roots in the Celtic Festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.

Why is it celebrated on the 31st October?
Because became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.

Is it a religious celebration?
Yes, because long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day.

What does the word "Halloween" mean?
It means "The night of All Saints"

Name 2 typicial games.
-Eat an apple on a string.
-Bob for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands.

When did it become a dangerous celebration? Why?
When contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen.It became a dangerous celebration because there was the idea of linking the living with the dead.

How do people celebrate it today?
People celebrate it doing activities like trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.