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Halloween is not exactly a typical holiday. Other holidays, like Christmas and Shavuot, celebrate an event. Halloween celebrates a lot of things, including the lives of people who aren't with us anymore.
The history of Halloween is not entirely a clear one. Here's how (we think) it started:
Many hundreds of years ago, a people called the Celts lived in Europe and on the British Isles. The Celts believed that the souls of the dead visited Earth on the last day of October. They had a festival in honor of these souls of the dead, and they called it Samhain.
In time, the Roman Empire conquered the Celts and took over some of their beliefs as well. This included Samhain. The Romans combined it with their own festivals. And since the Roman Empire spread across a great part of the known world, the idea that the souls of the dead visited Earth on the last day of October spread far and wide.
Many ideas from the Roman days still survive in the United States and in other Western countries. Halloween is one of them.
But how did we get the name Halloween?
In the 8th Century, the Catholic Church declared November 1 to be All Saints' Day. The church calendar had a number of days honoring saints already. November 1 was picked to be the day to honor all saints who didn't already have a day named in their honor.
And the mass that the Catholic Church celebrated on November 1 was called Allhallowmas. This meant "mass of all the hallowed [saintly people.]" It was commonly called "All Hallows' Day."
And somewhere along the line, the night before became known as Allhallowe'en, which was short for "evening before All Hallows' Day." It was then shortened to what we now call it, Halloween.
One last question: Why do people dress up as ghosts, goblins, vampires, and other scary creatures? The people who started all this Halloween business many years ago believed that if they appeared scary, they would scare away the spirits of the dead who were roaming the earth on All Hallows' Eve. These people also carried food to the edge of town and left it there, hoping the spirits would eat that food and not come raid the village.
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Halloween
Halloween History & Origin
Halloween is the one of the oldest holidays still celebrated today. It's one of the most popular holidays, second only to Christmas. While millions of people celebrate Halloween without knowing its origins and myths, the history and facts of Halloween make the holiday more fascinating.Some people view Halloween as a time for fun, putting on costumes, trick-or-treating, and having theme parties. Others view it as a time of superstitions, ghosts, goblins and evil spirits that should be avoided at all costs.
As the Christian debate goes on, celebrating Halloween is a preference that is not always viewed as participating in an evil holiday. Halloween is often celebrated with no reference to pagan rituals or the occult.
Halloween History
Halloween is on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. Halloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago.All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day, which was created by Christians to convert pagans, and is celebrated on November 1st. The Catholic church honored saints on this designated day.
Origin of Halloween
While there are many versions of the origins and old customs of Halloween, some remain consistent by all accounts. Different cultures view Halloween somewhat differently but traditional Halloween practices remain the same.Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids, a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe. Roots lay in the feast of Samhain, which was annually on October 31st to honor the dead.
Samhain signifies "summers end" or November. Samhain was a harvest festival with huge sacred bonfires, marking the end of the Celtic year and beginning of a new one. Many of the practices involved in this celebration were fed on superstition.
The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed the streets and villages at night. Since not all spirits were thought to be friendly, gifts and treats were left out to pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would be plentiful. This custom evolved into trick-or-treating.
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Unit 1: Past Simple and Continuous- TELLING STORIES-2ºB
ADAM’S TRIPS
Once upon a
time a nice man called Adam . He loves
travel around the world. He stayed in all cities and countries he travel
by train, aeroplane, boat , car… but he didn’t stay in New York, so he decided
prepare a travel. He took a plane from Wales to New
York . He was sitting in the plane when suddenly the
plane felt down he appeared in a desert island. The first thing that Adam did
was explore the island and took food. When he explored all the island yet, he tried to built a boat. He recoleted a lot of steaks
to made the boat and fire. He did a boat but is impossible that the boat resist on the travel. He thought that
with the fire can sent signals and maybe an helicopter can saw him. Spent many
hours an helicopter went to recue him. The man come back home and the family
was very happy because they thought that Adam was died. The family decided that
Adam can’t travel more alone and Adam accept The family did a party to celebrate that Adam
survive in the island.
THE END
Andrea,Alma,Ana,Diego Y Elvira.
LOSING AT THE TRIP
Dani, Evan and Nora were preparing for a trip
with the school.
When all the students were in the school they
toke the buss to go to the trip.
When they were in the place they toke their
bikes and they began to did the trip.
And hour ago Dani, Evan and Nora where very tired,
and they stopped for a minute to rest. When they were taking other time their bikes,
any way the others students were with them!
Dani, Evan and Nora were so worried. They rode
their bikes by the way but in a point of the trip there were two ways, and they
didn’t knew what way is the correct.
-Oh no! What are we doing now? -Said Evan.
-Let’s take the second way; it must be the
correct- said Nora.
The second way carried them to a road, in the
road a car stopped and carried them to the place where they start the trip. The
monitor taught them to rode canoes in a river near.
They have a really good time.
When all their partners came from the trip they
were very tired.
David V, David A, Marina F, Lucía C and María
THE MISTERY OF
THE Aeroplane
In the
police office of Madrid , there
is a new mystery that say that:
“ in an
aeroplane destiny from U.S.A, there was a famous actor of TV, his name was
Pepe.
He was a
famous actor of a TV show, that interpret
a boy that was a famous singer the world.
In the
aeroplane there was only five persons: Pepe, two flicht attendant
The pilot
and the director of the TV show
When the
aeroplane took off, Pepe was sitting, the director was in the WC and the flicht
attendants were in the cabin of the pilot. When the aeroplane was fliying over
trhe pacific ocean , Pepe was very nervous , but they didn’t know the reason.
When the
aeroplane land in U.S.A there was some stranged….
PEPE WAS
DIED!!!!!!!!
In the
police office at this moment the inspector Gadget is very nervous because he
didn’t know the answer of the mistake.
But he
see something stranged in the photos of the aeroplane , there are a silencer of a gun .
Gadget
think about when pepe was nervous when was fliying over the pacific ocean , at
this moment Gadget know the answer.
Gadget all the on the police office , and he say
how is the killer , the killer is……
The
director, his name is Dilan , he killed Pepe because he is a old friend of Pepe
,he went whit him to the casting for the tv show , but the persons select Pepe
to the tv show.
And then
Pepe didn’t was friend of Dilan.
AEROPLANE
Gadget get in Dilan from the prision , and Pepe dead in peace.
PAULA,CELIA M,ALBA S,MIGUEL ANGEL,MARINA M.
The Mystery of the island
The clouds cover the sky, it was starting to rain, the waves were
kicking the rocks, the rain was watering the sailors families that were saying
good bye, the last sailor get in the ship and then the ship started to sail.
It pass one month, the food started to disappeared, one day the captain
of the ship changed the direction of the ship, the next day they saw a stench
island, one of the sailors say : “ I think that is a bad idea, I feel scared”.
The captain didn’t hear him, so they arrived at land.
They had discovered a new island, at the first night on the island,
Fred, the littlest sailor says: and he started to cry. The captain says to
Fred, that he can be scared because you are so brave.
When dawned Fred appear die with a bit in the neck. Another two or three
sailors feel scared, so they started to prepare a motin, they think that the
cause of the death was caused by the captain, because he didn’t hear Fred…
Alba G, Laura ,Elvira A.,Minko, Lucia A.
VACATION TO HAWAII
One day a family thought that it would be a good idea to travel on
holidays to Hawaii .
During two days they were packing. Harry, the father took the camera,
all the passports and the wallet. Jenny, the mother took the suncream and the
travel guide.
Tom, nickname as Tommy and his sister Nina took the maps, one torch, the
swimsuits and some books for the journey. But their journey wasn’t as they
thought. That morning everyone were so nervous. They thought to go by car to
the aeroport, but suddenly the phone rang.
The trip had been cancelled because the motor of the plane didn’t work
and no other plane can take their to Hawaii .
The children were very sad but they parents tried to change the plans. That day
they booked a cruise to Hawaii .
Next week they would be in Hawaii …!
At last day arrived , they went by taxi-till the port. The journey
lasted 5 days. There was amazing. There
were swimming pools, an acuatic park and a place for teenagers.
The 5 days were fabulous but the best will be come. When they arrived at
the port of Hawaii , they were impressed by the
landscape , it was a hot tropical landscape. They stayed in a hotel, and they
did many enjoy things.
SARA R, MIGUEL C,ELSA , PABLO , NOELIA .
Unit 1: Past Simple and Continuous- TELLING STORIES-2ºA
UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT
A
lot of years ago, in a village. When was very difficult survive and die was
very easy. A group of doctors comes to the village in a train because they
decided saw the situation. When they saw that few persons didn’t leave the
house.
The
doctors were days , weekend, months…They found the answer.
One
of the important persons of the village was ill, the doctors answer him, but he
didn’t talk and the doctors decided to answer his daughter. She said that he
was in that from because he had get a virus that were in the village, the
doctors said, give more information of that strange ill. Finally Paula(that is
the name of the daugther )decided to tell us all the things that she knew of
the strange ill.When she finished her explication. They had got a idea that was
the ill.
They
were thinking in antidote , when they had got the antidote ,they gave to the
persons that were ill whit the virus.
The
doctors discovered the elixir of the life.
END.
Cristina , Sara ,Laura ,Maria
2ºA
THE PEANUT MAN
ADVENTURE ISLAND
My
name is Matías and I’m going to tell you my history. I was in 2ºth of E.S.O. when
this happends. When I was exiting of the school to my house, I met with my best
friend Jacinto de la Calzada. He
gave me a peanut and I ate it when.. CHAN
CHAN CHAAAN! I falled ill. I ran to the hospital but
when I was passing in front of a shop I saw two killers in it… One moment… It
was the shop of my father! At this moment, I felt so raredly, my arms were
strong and my head was a peanut form! And I shouted of scream but I went to
rescue my father. I took the limousine of my father and I killed them!
DAD!
DAD! Are you OK? –Yes. Then, appared my girlfriend that she didn’t love me…
Because now, I’m a peanut! I was to too angry that, without thinking I was
flying higher than an aeroplane so I took my girlfriend Judith and we had a
walk in the sky. Then, Judith kissed Matías, and… CHAN CHAN CHAAAN! Matías became a normal
person. Now, Matías and Judith were exiting in the motorbike to saw Matías’s
father.
Carla,
Sergio, Yanira y cELIA
A DREAM TRAVEL!
Once upon a time, there was a boy that his dream was to drive. He lived
in california. His mother said he that he couldn’t drive because he was too
little. The boy went into his room and started to cry, this boy was Ruben and
he was five years old.
While he was walking to his school he found a ticket, that ticket was to
go to Europe, London. In that city there was a park only for kids called
Kidsland, a place where you could do all you wanted. But to went there he had
to ask first to his parents, and his parents said: NO! Ruben got angry and he
decided to go alone. He took his father’s car, started the car and went out
of California. He arrived to the airport
and took the plane that was mention in the ticket, and started his travel. The
travel dured eight hours, while in the plane he found money under a place.
After many hours in the plane he arrived to London, and with the money
that he found he bought a coke and bisquits. He took a taxi and he went to
Kidsland. Whith the rest of the money he paid the entry. In that place there
was everything, some shops, banks, museums, theme parks, parks, houses where
only lived kids and a lot of transports like scooters, trains, vans,
limousines, undergrounds, helicopters or cars. He drove a car and visited all
the city. He did real his dream.
He got up and all the adventures were a dream, he was sleeping in the
plane to Kidsland with his parents.
THE END.
Sara M, Sergio V, Alex , Irene L
LOVE IN HELICOPTER
Once upon a time there was a girl called Ana. She
went with her car to a big mountain,
when she arrived she decided to climb the mountain. She was climbing the
mountain when she suddenly saw a train and she thought: I would like to travel
on this train to see many countries.
Two hours later she felt, then she felt a pain in the
leg and see fainted.
When she woke up she looked to the landscape and she
shouted “I am in a helicopter!”
Then she saw a beautiful boy with brown hair and blue
eyes.
-Hi, I’ m Jack-
-Mmmm…Hello,I’m Ana, where am I?-
-You are a very brave, I like you-
-Jajajaja. Are you joking?-
-No jajajaja.-
When they arrived to the hospital the doctors put Ana
in a white bed. Jack stayed with Ana all the time and Ana falled in love.
When she went out of the hospital Jack said:
-Do you want to be my girlfriend?-
-Yes!-
And then they went in a limousine to a beautiful hotel
to celebrate their new relationship.
Mónica , Lydia, Erik , Mario , Silvia .
THE DEAD TRAVEL
THERE WERE 20 FRIENDS IN A BUS IN THE EXCURSION OF END OF CLASS. THEY
WENT TO RUSSIA .
THE TRAVEL IN BUS WAS ABOUT 20 DAYS. AT THE FIRST DAY THEY STOPPED IN FRANCE ; ONE OF
THE BOYS FELT IN THE RAILWAY AN THE TRAIN KILLED HIM.
AT THE SECOND DAY IN SWITZERLAND ,
ONE OF THE GIRLS, STARTED TO FEEL BAD AND WENT TO THE HOSPITAL. SHE DIED AT
MIDNIGHT.
THE THIRD DAY AT ITALY ,THE
DRIVER FELT BAD, BECAUSE A EPILEPSY ATACT,AND HE DIED.
AT THE FOURTH DAY THE TEACHER DRANK A STRANGE DRINK AND BECAME A MONKEY.
THE FIFTH THEY WERE STAYING IN A HOTEL OF CZECH REPUBLIC. ONE GIRL FELT
ON A CANAL OF PRAGUE .
NEXT COUNTRY WAS HUNGARY ,
WHEN THEY WERE CROSSING THE STREET, A CAR, A SCOOTER AND A MOTORBIKE, AND THEY
HIT ONE OF THE BOYS
IN ROMANIA
THEY DRANK A STRANGE DRINK AND TWO BOYS BECAME VAMPIRES.
NEXT DAY IN UKRANIETHEY GET ON A FERRY TO CROSS THE DNIEPER ,
WHEN THE FERRY BROKE, FORTNATLY, A HELICOPTERTHAT WERE FLIYING THERE , SAW THE
BOYS AND WENT TO RESCUE.
THEY WENT TO POLAND
TO BVOUGHT A NEW CAR, TO WENT TO RUSSIA , WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO THE
CARSHOP TWO BOYS WERE FEELING BAD, THEY HAD A STRANGE ILLNESS, AND DIED AT
12.00A.M
NEXT COUNTRY WAS LITHUANIA ,
ONE BOY ATE A FRIED CHICKEN IN BAD
STATE . HIS GIRLFRIEND
STARTED TO CRIED AND DIED TWO HOURS LATER .
ONE GIRL CALLED PAULA BECAME ILLNESS OF EBOLA, AND CONTAGIED YHE REST OF
THE PARTNESS WHEN THEY ARRIVED RUSSIA .
THE END.
PAULA, CLAUDIA, JAVIER, ELISA 2ºA
This is the history of four young people that went to
a trip in Easter.
Once upon a time, four friends were planning to go to
“Canarias” for an investigation for the university. They were going to study
the volcanic rocks. They went to the airport
of London to take an
aeroplane to “Canarias”. While they were flying above the sea the motor crushed
and the plane fell on the sea…
The next day, they woke up on the sand of an island’s
beach called “Cordif”. This island wasn’t identificated. They went on a trip to
the inside part of the island. They were looking for food and water, and they
found a small river and some trees with bananas and pineapples.
At night, they made a fire, and they slept there.
When the sun appeared, they continued the
investigation of the island.
After many hours, they discovered a volcano. Next to
it, they found a broken canoe and they carried it to the beach. They were
repairing it, when a ferry came to the island.
The ferry was white and big. They got inside the
ferry, and when they were inside they discovered that people inside it were a
new civilisation with green skin. They carried them to their country, an island
in the middle of the ocean called ”Emerald
Island ”. The four friends
decided to stay there, and the green people got in present to the friends a
helicopter to visit her family.
THE END
SANDRA, MIRIAM, AARÓN, DIEGO Y JORGE
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PAST TENSES
Exercises to review the Past Tenses:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
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1. What are the forms of the past simple, of the
gerund and of the participle for the following verbs?
infinitive
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participle
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gerund
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hold
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take
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throw
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come
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blow
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give
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show
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know
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meet
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miss
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look
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2. Fill in the blanks with the verbs from the
exercise 1 in
Past Simple or in Past Continuous.
I (1)…………..
a wish in the well,
Don't
ask me, I'll never tell
I (2)…………
to you as it fell,
And
now you're in my way
I'd
trade my soul for a wish,
Pennies
and dimes for a kiss
I (3)………………….
for this,
But
now you're in my way
Your
stare (4)…………………..,
Ripped
jeans, skin (5)………………..
Hot
night, wind (6)……………………….
Where
you think you're going, baby?
Hey,
I just (7)………… you,
And
this is crazy,
But
here's my number,
So
call me, maybe?
It's
hard to look right,
At you baby,
But here's my number,
So call me, maybe?
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here's my number,
So
call me, maybe?
And
all the other boys,
Try
to chase me,
But
here's my number,
So
call me, maybe?
You
(8)………….. your time with the call,
I
(8)………………….. no time with the fall
You
(9)…………………. me nothing at all,
But
still, you're in my way
I
beg, and borrow and steal
Have
foresight and it's real
I (10)…………………….
I would feel it,
But it's in my way
Before
you (11)………….. into my life
I (12)……………………………..
you so bad
I (12)…………………………….. you so bad
I (12)…………………………….. you so, so
bad
Before you (11)………….. into my life
Before you (11)………….. into my life
I (12)……………………………… you so bad
And you should know
that I (12)……………….. you so, so
bad
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