Haunted House

Apart from being a very important cultural aspect and quite attractive and motivating for our pupils, Halloween can also be a good opportunity to practice and review some English structures. In the following post, "The Haunted House", we propose a didactic unit, based on Halloween vocabulary, in which we will practice the four skills and also grammar contents such as there is/are ,prepositions, questions and short answers...


Start the lesson doing a brief brainstorm on Halloween vocabulary. Try to get all the words they know about Halloween although they are not the ones you have chosen for the unit. After this, introduce the vocabulary using flashcards and playing some games with them. Visit www.toolforeducators.com  to get free flashcards and printable activities, it is very useful to make our own material.

After the flashcard games, our pupils have seen both the oral and the written form of the new words, so it is time to practice with them, in this case we propose a crossword and a wordsearch. 

 

Now it is time to deliver "The Haunted House" sheet. Firstly we will work with the prepositions "on, in, under, behind..." and the parts of the house so it is worthy having a little time to review them. We propose two different levels here, 3rd and 4th of primary.

 

After these activities, to finish, we will deliver a little ghost to be coloured by our pupils and used to make a speaking activity. In pairs, our pupils will put the ghost in a room and the classmate have to guess where he is asking different questions e.g. Is he in the bathroom? yes, he is. Is he in the bath? No he isn't. Is he behind the door? Yes, he is. then they change roles

We hope you find it useful. See you!!