Changes in Halloween language of trends practice

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Trends words and phrases presentation and practice on the topic of Halloween, with useful Halloween vocabulary.

By: Alex Case

Level: All Levels

Theme: Festivals and Celebrations

Study Area: Verbs and Tenses

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Changes in Halloween language of trends practice

Choose a topic related to Halloween like those below. Explain (past, present and future) changes in that (in your country, your region, the world, etc). See if your partner agrees and/ or can add more details, then take turns doing the same with other Halloween topics.

Share a trend you agreed on and see if other groups agree and/ or can add more details.

Ask about any language below that you don’t understand, working together to make suitable statements on trends using it each time.

Trends language presentation

Without looking below, write as many words as you can with these meanings in the spaces given. Some words can go in more than one space.

Small changes/ Slow changes

Big changes/ Quick changes

Upward changes

Downward changes

Straight lines on a line graph

Curved lines on a line graph

Comparing two lines on a line graph/ Comparing trends of two different things

Compare with the page below. Many other words are possible, so please check if you wrote something different.

Change partner and do the same explaining and discussing trends activity, but this time with only the no trends language worksheet to help. Then do the same for other festivals and celebrations, but with no help.

With trends language version

Apple bobbing

(Other/ More traditional) autumn festivals

(Seeing/ Fear of/ Protecting/ Number of/ Interest in) bats

(Expense of) burials

(Visiting/ Setting up new) cemeteries/ graveyards

(Expense of/ Size of) coffins

costume rental (shops/ fees/ popularity)

(People reading/ Name recognition of/ Movies including/ Using the metaphor of) Frankenstein

(Telling/ Writing/ Sharing) ghost stories

Ghost trains (in amusement parks)

(Belief in/ Seeing/ Interest in) ghosts

(Cleaning/ Visiting) graves/ tombs

(Scary/ Renting/ Wearing/ Skimpy/ Popular/ Banning/ Disney/ non-Halloween-related) Halloween costumes (scary clowns, etc)

Halloween parties (for adults/ for teens/ for kids)

(Visiting/ Staying in/ Prices of/ Documentaries on/ Social media on) haunted houses

(Making/ Buying/ Displaying) Jack-o’-lanterns

(18-certificate/ 15-certificate/ PG/ gory/ psychological/ sci-fi) horror movies

(Dressing up as/ Interest in/ Exhibitions on) mummies

(Hearing the hooting of/ Seeing/ Keeping/ Population of/ Cafes with) owls

(Buying/ Cooking/ Carving/ Making Jack-o’-lanterns from/ Growing) pumpkins

(Belief in/ Books on/ Interest in) the supernatural

Trick or treat (at the homes of people you know/ at the homes of strangers/ in the local neighbourhood)

(Scary/ New) urban myths

Vampires (in movies/ in literature/ as Halloween costumes)

(Dressing up as/ Belief in/ Interest in/ Persecution of) witches

(Hearing the howling of/ Danger from/ Attacks by/ Fear of/ Population of/ Reintroduction of) wolves

Zombies (in movies/ as Halloween costumes)

…ed

had already …ed

has …ed

has been …ing

is …ing

is expected to

is forecast to

will…

+ almost certainly

will probably

may well

might

could possibly

could conceivably

almost certainly won’t

won’t

boom/ rocket

take off

explode

soar

shoot up

double

triple

quadruple

climb (…fold)

increase

grow

rise

expand

creep up

fluctuate

be unstable

flatten out

level off

plateau

bottom out

stabilise

remain stable

stay the same

drop slightly

fall steadily

decrease

dive

collapse

plummet

plunge

crash

halve

slow down

accelerate

recover

bounce back

rebound

(reach a) peak

pass its peak

slip back

fall behind

catch up with

match

overtake

surpass

Without trends language version