Welcome to the Halloween page of Busy Teacher! There are currently 214 worksheets and excellent articles available on this spooky holiday. Planning your Halloween lesson just got a lot easier! Take a moment to browse through the section to find something that's appropriate for your class. Whether or not your students are familiar with Halloween, they are sure to enjoy the creative activities you do in class. You can make the experience more authentic by encouraging students to dress in costume and by handing out candy but make sure these are both acceptable at your school!
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This activity can be used as a memory game in which instead of having two pictures, students have to find the picture and the written word. Another possible use is using the pictures as flashcards ...
This is a Halloween reading worksheet, that consists of 5 short (2-3 sentence stories). Ss need to read the beginning of each story, discuss and predict the ending. Then there's a matching exercis ...
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows, is celebrated on 1st November by the Catholic Church, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. Students are asked to choose one of the four patro ...
This is a worksheet aimed at having students practice third person singular verbs. I have a grid, the students play rock paper scissors, the winner chooses a dot and draws a line to a separate dot ...
20 idioms with the words "dead" and "devil". You can use this worksheet with an upper-intermediate or advanced class. As a follow-up, students can choose 5 idioms they would like to reme ...
Print the worksheet and cut the squares. Divide the class into groups. Give each group a stack of cards. Shuffle the cards and arrange them all face down on a table. Students have to take turns, c ...
This is a boardgame I made just in time for Halloween. This will get your students speaking about different things related to the topic. Feel free to modify the questions or the "will you survive" ...
This worksheet will help students to listen to an interesting programme from NASA science about Halloween as an astronomical holiday. The programme also deals with the tradition of Halloween. The ...
Halloween worksheet - This creative writing exercise asks students to write about the best Halloween costume they have ever been in and go through the entire process of creating it and the reactio ...
Made for easy double sided printing. Includes a word scramble, fill the blanks, acrostic poem and a drawing exercise. I use this for an hour lesson, its good fun and has enough work to keep everyo ...
Do you know why we cross our fingers for good luck? Do you know why walking under a ladder is bad luck? Get ready to find out! I created this Power Point to go over the history of some things that ...
Present tenses practice with vocabulary topic - festivals and holidays. There are some exercises on present tenses and there are some words on festivals and holidays in order to know if students k ...
This powerpoint presentation contains a true/false activity on Halloween customs, as well as questions on a video clip from ET, the film directed by Steven Spielberg. My students really enjoyed th ...
Holidays around the year (GB, USA). This presentation is for pre-intermediate and intermediate students. Including information about New Year´s Eve, St. Valentine´s Day, St. Patrick&ac ...
This is a great song for Halloween or just for reviewing vocabulary for horror films or similar topics. It´s also useful for lower levels as it is quite repetitive. It´s a gap fill wor ...
Instructions: Play in teams of five ss and see which team can get the most correct guesses from their classmates’ pantomimes. We give students’ team who are playing pantomim ...
A private student of mine is fond of "Monster High" dolls and cartoons, and can talk about it for hours. After having noticed that more and more children started watching it, I thought that they m ...
An introduction to Halloween + the second conditional designed for EFL students and specifically written for Chinese learners practice using the Second Conditional. The first few slides tell ss a ...
This PDF file can be used to recycle Halloween vocabulary. It has the names of different ghouls and our kids found it really funny. Afterwards, you could create a simple wordsearch for them, using ...
This is a very difficult worksheet for beginners. It was intended for students who had only seen simple present and present continuous, but it also features simple past and passive voice, so this ...
Use Tim Burton's poem from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas available on Youtube. Play the video first and make the students pay attention to the cartoons and ask them to retell what happe ...
This is a song worksheet based on the soundtrack to 'Ghostbusters' (1984). The song is performed by Ray Parker Junior. In this activity students fill in the blanks and put the sentences in th ...
This worksheet is fantastic to celebrate Halloween. In the activity, students should fill in the spaces listening the song at least three times. You can help them wriritng some words on the board. ...
This is a great trivia worksheet to complete for Halloween. How much do you know about the festival Halloween? There are 15 questions to answer, some of them are easy and some of them are hard. Wh ...
This is a fun activity to do with your class for Halloween. Can you find all of the Halloween words in the grid? See who can find them all first! Your students can work in pairs or by themselves. ...
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