Halloween Vocabulary Exercise (Easy)

Halloween


Work with a partner. From the words in the below, find the best word to complete the sentences.

celebrate Halloween witches earth dress up scared costume pretend decorate skeletons carved pumpkins lanterns apple-bobbing blindfolds Trick or Treat ghosts evil spirits

1. Every year children like to …………. Halloween.The festival of ……………. is held on October 31st.Some people say that on this night many bad things walk around the ………… .

2. …………. are the spirits of dead people. Some people use firecrackers to frighten away …………. …………. . ………………… are women who wear black clothes and ride through the night on broomsticks. ……………… are the bones of people or animals. For Halloween, my sister is going to ………… ……. as a witch. I am helping her sew a black ………… . My brother wants to …………… he is a ghost by wearing a white sheet.

3. We bought some orange …………… at the market and we …………. them with scary faces. We put candles inside to make ……………. . We will …………. the house with pictures of other scary things, like spiders’ webs.

4 …………………… is a game in which children lift apples from a bowl of water with their teeth. In “House of Horrors”, another Halloween game, children wear …………… and touch things that feel strange. The most famous Halloween game is “…………………………………”.

Answers(in order): celebrate, Halloween, earth, ghosts, evil spirits, witches, skeletons, dress up, costume, pretend, pumpkins, carved, lanterns, decorate, apple-bobbing, blindfolds, Trick or Treat