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HALLOWEEN
TREATS

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1 Warm up

Halloween is a time when people like to talk about scary or disgusting things. Match the Halloween
words and the explanations.

bat brain ghost finger Frankenstein monster mummy spider

1. : a body part that you have ten of

2. : a body wrapped in bandages, originally made in ancient Egypt

3. : a flying animal that comes out at night and turns into a vampire

4. : a large and strange living thing

5. : a character from a story, that was made from different people’s body parts

6. : a body part that is inside your head

7. : a small animal with eight legs that lives in a web

8. : the spirit of a dead person that has come back to life

Cover your paper. Take turns to draw one of these items for your classmates to guess.

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2 Watch for main idea

You are going to watch a short video (00:00-02:52) called "Last Minute Halloween Treats." Before you
watch, predict which foods A-F will be used to make one part of each of the items 1-7. Then watch
and check your ideas. One food is extra, and some foods may be used twice.

1. a bat →

2. Frankenstein →

3. a spider →

4. a mummy →

5. a finger →

6. a brain →

7. a monster →

A. a chocolate cupcake B. a chocolate sandwich C. a cookie with a long shape

cookie

D. an ice cream cone E. a mini chocolate log cake F. a pretzel stick

1. Which idea do you think is the most surprising?

2. Which treat would you most like to eat?
3. Which treat would you most like to make?

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3 Watch for detail

Complete the table below by ticking the boxes showing which additional items were used for each
treat.

cake frosting eyes made from melted chocolate colored or

(made from candy or colored candy chocolate
butter and sugar) melts sprinkles

bat

Frankenstein

spider example: x (red)

mummy

finger

brain

monster

Which treats used these items and how were they used?

1. peanut butter cups (a small round chocolate covered candy with peanut butter inside):

2. almonds (a type of nut):

3. candy corn (a triangle shaped orange and yellow candy, popular at Halloween):

4. licorice/liquorice (a long thin black candy with a strong flavor):

Can you remember two ways that a fork was used in the video?

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4 Reading and writing

Read the instructions and add the missing verbs from the box.

break / finish / make / open / put / remove / spread / stick / take

Halloween treat: bats

1 2 3
a chocolate sandwich cookie and it up.
4 5
the white frosting inside and it in a bowl. the cookie in half.
6 7
a little bit of frosting on a corner of each broken cookie and
8 9
them on a peanut butter cup body to the ears. with candy
eyes.

Now put these steps in order to explain how to make the Frankenstein treat.

Use one white sprinkle to make the mouth.

Stick in two candy corn ears on the sides.

Add candy eyes.

1 Melt the green candy buttons.

Dip half of the mini chocolate log into the green color to make the head.

Dip just the top of the head into the purple sprinkles to make the hair.

Choose one more treat from the video and write instructions. You may need to use the verb drizzle,
which means to use a liquid in a bottle to draw on something.

Read your instructions to a classmate. Can they guess which treat you are talking about?

5 Talking point
Discuss these questions in pairs or small groups.

1. Some people might say that these recipes aren’t real cooking. Do you agree? Why/not?
2. How could you use an ice cream cone to create a Halloween treat?
3. Can you think of any other interesting sweet treats that you could create in a similar way for
Halloween?
4. Is Halloween a popular celebration in your country?
5. What are some good ways to decorate your home for Halloween or another autumn festival?

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6 Halloween party menu

Work in pairs or small groups and choose your options together from the box. Plan a menu with at
least three items for a Halloween party. Be ready to explain how to make your items.

• This party is for children and their parents / teenagers / adults.

• This party takes place at someone’s home / in a café, hotel or club / in an office.
• The menu should be Halloween themed dinner food / healthy snacks / really disgusting and scary.

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7 Optional extension

In North America, kids dress up at Halloween and visit their neighbors’ houses to ask for candy and
sweets. This is called "trick or treating." Sometimes, the kids have to do a trick before they get their
candy, and they might tell a joke. Match the answers to the questions to make Halloween jokes.

1. What do mummies put in their hair? a. Scare spray.

2. Why did the spider get a job at Google? b. Frank Einstein.

3. What is the first thing a bat learns at school? c. Hope it’s Halloween.

4. What do you call a very smart monster? d. It was a great web designer.

5. What do you do when ten monsters knock on your e. Super Pumpkin.

door?
6. What’s the best thing about Halloween? f. The alphabat.

7. Which room in a haunted house do ghosts never go g. The living room.

into?
8. What’s orange and goes faster than a speeding train? h. The day after when all the candy
goes on sale.

Which joke do you think is the funniest?

Do you know any other jokes in English?

Do you like telling jokes in your own language?

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