ATIVIDADE 1º A, B, C PROFº TEREZA INGLÊS

Professor: Tereza Cristina Negrão Pereira

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Série: 1ºs Ensino Médio

Email tnegrão@prof.educacao.sp.gov.br

Período de 26/10 a 29/10 Entrega dia 04/11 (Classroom)

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HALLOWEEN

Halloween, the time of pumpkins, candies, ghosts, witches and much more, is annually celebrated on 31 October. That’s the night before All Saints Day. Its origins date back thousands of years to the Celtic festival of Samhaim or The Feast of the Sun, most significant holiday of the Celtic year. This day marked the end of summer but also the season of darkness as well as the beginning of the New Year on 1 November.

Druids in Britain and Ireland would light bonfires, dance around them and offer sacrifices of animal. The fires were also intended to give warmth to the households and to keep free from evil spirits. Through the ages these practices changed.

The Irish hollowed out turnips and placed a light inside to keep away the bad Jack. As the legend says, Jack was a man who tricked the devil and after Jack had died he was allowed neither in heaven nor in hell. With a lantern in his hand he began to search for a resting place on Earth. This was the original Jack-o-Lantern. Since Halloween came to America from Ireland (Scotland and Wales) people used pumpkins because they were bigger and easier to hollow out than turnips.

Children love the custom of dressing-up in fancy costumes and going from door-to-door yelling ‘Trick-or-Treat?’ . Adults instead join spooky parties which are nearly held all over the cities on that special evening. A spooky decoration, games and themed food are nuts and bolts for a Halloween party your friends won’t soon forget.

A. Quando é celebrado o Halloween?

B. Escreva sobre o festival Samhaim. Como eram suas comemorações?

C. Escreva sobre a lenda de Jack.

D. O que significa “Trick or Treat”?