This is Halloween 2019

Triumphant Money Heist, classical witches, zombies or skeletons multiplied around Luyfe’s playground on the day of our Halloween celebration, which proved, once more, how much our students fancy a costume. 

Our English lessons also focused on the same topic that day: we wrote scary stories, remembered the origins (All Hallows’ Eve), played Halloween tongue-twisters and recited spooky poems. We even had time for sweeties and delicious home-baked pumpkin cakes!

Why don’t you try and read this sample of Halloween tongue-twisters and poems the fastest you can? Challenge your family and friends and take pronunciation to a higher level of fun! 

•    He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
•    Creepy crawler critters crawl through creepy crawly craters
•    Dracula digs dreary, dark dungeons.
•    Ghostly ghouls gather gleefully to golf on ghostly golf courses.
•    Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins
•    Horribly hoarse hoot owls hoot howls of horror in halloween haunted houses.
•    If big black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?
•    If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
•    Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the plumpest pumpkins.
•    Transylvanian Tree Trimmers are trained to trim the tallest Transylvanian trees.
•    Several spooky slimy spiders spun sulking by the sea
•    The ochre ogre ogled the poker.
•    Which witch wished which wicked wish?

 

Spooky Poem

 

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, 
But if you wish the wish the witch wishes, 
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

ABOUT HALLOWEEN

Hallowe'en has become more and more popular in the last ten years in Spain, but do you know where the tradition originates? The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain in Ireland was held on the 31st of October, and marked the end of the harvest season. It is believed that the souls of the dead walk the earth, and people would put offerings of food and drink outside to appease the malevolent ones…something that later developed into the present-day "trick-or-treating". The origin of pumpkin-carving comes from the Irish cutting up turnips, a hard vegetable, to frighten the souls. 
 
In modern Ireland, both kids and adults dress up in scary costumes and huge bonfires are lit to scare away the dead. Children go trick-or-treating dressed as ghouls and ghosts, devils and demons, begging for sweets and chocolate from their neighbours, promising to play a trick on them if they don't get what they want. Some grown-ups have parties, play games, carve pumpkins and watch horror films together.   
 
So this year, when you're getting ready for Hallowe'en, remember the origins of the festival, and make sure you keep an eye out for any devilish beings walking the streets!
Oh, and if you want to wish someone a happy Hallowe'en in Irish, you can say:
Oíche Shamhna Shona Duit (EE-heh HOW-nuh HUN-uh ditch)
If you’re talking to more than one person, you can say:
Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh (EE-heh HOW-nuh HUN-uh DEE-iv)
Happy Hallowe'en everyone!!!