QUESTIONS ON HALLOWEEN
1. Where did the Celtic people live?
2. When did they celebrate New Year’s Eve?
3. Who was Samhain?
4. Why did the Celts dress in costumes on October 31?
5. Explain the modern custom of giving treats on Halloween.
6. What festival did the Romans celebrate around the end of October?
7. Where did the custom of bobbing for apples originate?
8. What holiday did the Christians celebrate on November 1st?
9. How did the Christians celebrate All Soul’s Day?
10. Explain the name Halloween.
IDIOMS
The apple of one’s eye
The Big Apple
To be as blind as a bat
To be as white as a ghost
To look like a skeleton
A jack of all trades
To mask one’s feelings
As white as sheet
To give up the ghost
To dig one’s own grave
To roll over in one’s grave
