Happy Halloween 2014

Irish and Scottish immigrants brought their Halloween traditions to Canada, and those traditions continue to this day. In Canada, Halloween is celebrated on October 31. 

Halloween is now celebrated in other countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. 

These celebrations can involve people decorating their homes, yards and immediate surroundings with various items symbolic of spirits and ghosts. Symbols include animals, such as black cats and spiders, and figures, such as ghosts and skeletons. Other symbols can include pumpkins, graveyards, cobwebs, and the colors green, orange, grey and black.

People also play scary-sounding music.

The celebrations are not only about ghosts and spirits. Some companies or organizations may have Halloween parties, usually after work, and people would dress in various costumes and put makeup on their faces. 

Perhaps the most pleasing part of Halloween is to see the joy in children’s faces when they go out for “trick or treat” in their costumes, makeup and their little – sometimes not so little – containers or baskets for the Halloween loot they anticipate collecting.

Activity-1: Use a dictionary to find the meaning of the following words:

Word	Meaning
Immigrant
Tradition
Ghost
Skeleton
Symbol
Costume

 Activity - 2:Use the meanings of the words in activity-1 to make your own sentence containing the word. You must make six sentences.

Word	Sentence
Immigrant
Tradition
Ghost
Skeleton
Symbol
Costume