HALLOWEEN

Study the following vocabulary related to Halloween and then take the quiz below.

• Bobbing for apples :
  Noun (game) - This is a traditional Halloween game. You put apples in a barrel of water and people try to take the floating apples out of the water using only their mouths.


• Cackling:
  Adjective - An evil, wild, otherworldly laughing sound


• Carve :
  Verb - (regular: carve - carved - carved) to cut with a knive, in the context of a pumpkin to cut a face into the pumpkin.


• Evil :
  Very bad behaviour with cruel intent.


• Haunted :
  Location containing evil spirits or ghosts, usually a house or castle.


• Ghost :
  Noun - the spirit of a dead person which appears again. Ghosts at Halloween are usually dressed in white sheets.


• Hideous :
  Adjective - Something so ugly you cannot look at it.


• Horrified :
  Adjective - very frightened, afraid or scared.


• Jack-o-lantern :
  Noun - A carved pumpkin usually with a candle burning inside to illuminate the pumpkin.


• Pumpkin:
  Noun - A large, orange vegetable in the squash family associated with Halloween.


• Skeleton:
  Noun - The bone structre of a body without the flesh.


• "Trick or Treat" :
  Saying - Used by children when going from house to house asking for candy. The phrase also means that if you don't give me a treat I will play a trick on you!


• Wicked:
  Adjective - the same as evil.


• Witch:
  Noun - A woman with magic powers (usually evil).

Choose the correct word from the list above to complete the senetence.

The ............ witch made a horrible.............cackling laugh before she flew off on her broom.
Let's go buy a ....................pumpkin and ................... carve a funny face on it.
Don't be afraid of that ...........skeleton. After all, it's just made of bones and can't hurt you!
Tom won the award for the best carved ....................-o-latern at the school Halloween fair.
If I hear one more child say............................."Trick or Treat" tonight I think I'll go crazy!
Take of that .............................hideous mask! I can't stand to look at you, it's so repelling!
Not all monsters are .............. evil OR wicked. Some are just misunderstood by the local population - think of Frankenstein.
I was ...................horrified by that horror film on TV last night. I know it was a Halloween film, but there was just too much blood and violence for me.
I dare you to open the door and go into that ....................haunted house up on the hill!
I have to go change my costume. I got all wet ........................ bobbing for apples.