Halloween Lesson for Secondary Students

Most everyone loves dressing up in fanciful costume displays or using frightening costumes on Hallow's Eve. America has the perfect holiday for that occasion called Halloween. Spanish learners of English can have fun learning English words and explaining the holiday with the following  lesson plan. 

Didactic Outline for Secondary School

Goal: Explain Halloween Holiday in English using vocabulary to explain the tradition using  oral speech.

Objectives:

1.    Students will learn new vocabulary in English

2.   Students will orally explain Halloween Holiday in English.

3.    Students will use proper grammatical verb tenses to explain the holiday.

Methodology:

1.    Show students keywords in English/Spanish related to the Halloween holiday.

2.    Show students how to use www.quizlet.com for flashcard practice of new vocabulary.

3.    Use www.fotobabble.com to orally explain the Halloween holiday in English.

Activities:

1. Students will create a word bank of all words related to Halloween.
2. All words will be in English/Spanish.
3. Word bank must have a minimum of 15 words.
4. Students will take pictures using fotobabble for audio explanation of holiday using  the vocabulary created in quizlet.

Final Product:

Students will post and explain their published work on quizlet and fotobabble. All work will be reviewed in class with students to learn the different and creative forms each student used for picture narration as well as the new vocabulary they used in the audio to explain the holiday in English.