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From: "Eileen Walsh" <eibhlinwalsh@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5339] Re: Halloween
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I realize this is a month later, but I just read your message regarding
teaching a lesson about Halloween. It sounds like a great way for your
students to learn about this holiday. I'm taking classes as I work towards
a teaching license and Master's degree, and I appreciate hearing about other
teachers experiences in the classroom.
>From: resctr2@ix.netcom.com
>Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>
>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5231] Re: Halloween
>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I loved Halloween, as an ESOL teacher!
>The class before Halloween I would always make sure my students understood
>the traditions and the safety issues. You can find all kinds of simple
>lessons on the web or in books. I made sure that
>they understood the local customs so they would not be embarrassed by not
>having treats, but also more importantly that they would be aware of
>activities and goings on for their children. (and the awful safety issues
>of checking candy bags etc.).I would simulate a trick or treat and have the
>students hand out selected treats and we would yea or nay them for safety.
>They loved testing all the different candies and learned tremendous amounts
>of vocabulary...like nuts, chocolate, carmel, stomach ache, cavities. It's
>an incredibly rich lesson and one that they remember. All of my students
>remembered Snickers before they remembered many other words.
>
>The best was on the day of Halloween, I would dress up silly and we would
>have a lesson on pumpkin carving, again an incredibly varied lesson. We
>would have cider and donuts and I would have them give me directions, after
>having reviewed some targetted vocabulary....top, bottom, inside, knife,
>happy, weird, scarey...etc.
>It was always wonderful and the most animated and talkative classes I ever
>had.
>I also learned how to carve a pumpkin from the bottom from a Slovenian
>student (it had never occurred to me, but makes perfect sense) and to this
>day I use the Korean recipe I got for fried pumpkin seeds.
>Gloria Gillette
>
>
>
>
>nifl-esl@nifl.gov wrote:
> >
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cynthia E. Shermeyer"
>To: "Multiple recipients of list"
>Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:39 PM
>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5181] Halloween
>
>Cindy -- I also teach adult ESL beginners & I just finished writing a
>Halloween lesson.
>
>Using "Looking at American Holidays" (D. A. Drews, National Textbook Co.,
>1985), I wrote a short, simple reading lesson about Halloween. From that,
>I
>wrote a 10-item fill-in-the-blank worksheet based on a quiz by Vera Mello.
>[I found Ms. Mello's work on the net but I can't remember the .com --
>sorry.
>I do have an email for her: ycqm@ruralsp.com.br] Finally, I made a word
>search of Halloween words. (My beginners LOVE word searches!) I'll add
>some clip art & copy these on orange paper (Office Max's special of the
>month).
>
>If your students are Hispanic, there are some bilingual children's books on
>the All Saints' Day tradition ("A Gift for Abuelita," Nancy Luenn; "the
>Spirit of Tio Fernando," Janice Levy); check with the library.
>
>Have fun!
>
>Dottie Shattuck
>Central Piedmont CC
>Charlotte, NC
>
>
> > Hello, I teach a beginning ESL class with 30 students. They have asked
> > me about Halloween. Does anyone have some ideas or resources about what
> > to do? I think I will bring in pictures of my kids in costumes to
> > discuss. Find out what they would dress up as. Have vocabulary words
> > of the season and of course candy treats. Am I in the right direction?
> > Thank you!!
> > Cindy Shermeyer
>
>
>
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