HALLOWEEN!!!!! 
            

1st ESO

Quiz:

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/play-with-friends/quiz-halloween

'This is Halloween'. Sing along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vVjVTCVXdE


2nd ESO

Quiz:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/halloween.html


Group project:

In groups, write a spooky Halloween story.

3rd ESO

Quiz:

http://www.quizfactor.com/quiz/horrifyingly-hard-halloween/9647

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpzjhIErug

Task:

After watching the video, answer these questions on your dossier / notebook:

• What happens in this story?
• Who are the main characters of the story?
• Do you believe that this is a real story?
• Do you believe in ghosts or any other kind of paranormal phenomena? 
• Do you think the story is scary or not? 
• How do you think the story will end? Write a possible ending for the story (max. 10 lines). Then check the ending and compare your answer.

4th ESO

Quiz:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/halloween-quiz-questions-and-answers.html

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9IagmgoeU

Task:

After watching the video, answer these questions on your dossier / notebook:

• What happens in this story?
• Who are the main characters of the story?
• Do you believe that this is a real story?
• Do you believe in ghosts or any other kind of paranormal phenomena? 
• Do you think the story is scary or not? 
• How will the ghost story end? Write a possible ending for this story (max. 10 lines).

OUR CLASS-PORTRAIT 

We devote the first and second sessions to group dynamics and games in order to know about each other. In one of the activities each of us describe ourselves with the adjective that best defines us to create a class-portrait. These are the results of all the three groups of 4th of ESO.

4th ESO A

We are... 

CREATIVE
PEACEFUL
FUNNY
NERVOUS
POLITE
INDIFFERENT
DETERMINED
IMPATIENT
PESSIMISTIC
SOCIABLE
LAZY
HAPPY
EMBARRASSED
METICULOUS
FRIENDLY
OPTIMISTIC
BRAVE
OUTGOING
ACTIVE
SELF-CONFIDENT
HARD-WORKING
GENEROUS
               

4th ESO B

We are...

HARD-WORKING
IMPATIENT
GENEROUS
DISORGANISED
PEACEFUL
JEALOUS
ACTIVE
CONFORMIST
FUNNY
LAZY
PATIENT
SOCIABLE
FRIENDLY
OPTIMISTIC
ENERGETIC
CREATIVE

4th ESO C

We are...

FUNNY
NERVOUS
OPTIMISTIC
IMPATIENT
HAPPY
NEGATIVE
HARD-WORKING
ORGANISED
LAZY
FRIENDLY
PASSIVE
TIDIED
BEAUTIFUL
SOCIABLE
UNTIDIED
SINCERE
PEACEFUL

The last winners...

 'The mystery of the present' (story by Fute, Mireia, Alba and Paula, winners from 2n ESO C)

I will tell you a story of many years ago. It is about a mysterious present, created by a nymph to save Christmas. This present had the power to choose a teen that didn't believe in Christmas, to save him/her.

Andrew was an orphan of 17 years old who lost his parents in a car accident. He hasn't got family and he went to an orphanage. He was a teen who hasn't got friends, he was different from all the others; so he was everyday away from his companions.

When Christmas arrived and all the children were decorating excited their rooms and corridors, Andrew was thinking in his room. Suddenly a blue flame appeared, which made him remember when his parents celebrated Christmas, and he started to believe in Christmas. And a present appeared, he touched it and transported him to a fountain. 

In that fountain there was a beautiful nymph, and she explained to Andrew that: a bat of the world of Halloween went into the world of Christmas, bit Santa Claus and changed into a very unpleasant person and from that moment began to make bad presents to the children. His mission was to get a potion to give to Santa and make him change.

The nymph told him that a unicorn went with him because it knew where the potion was. After meeting they began the way, while Derek explained that this potion was in a place called 'the limbo of the death', after a few minutes, reached the border between the world of Halloween and the world of Christmas. Derek made magic and they transformed into invisible people.

Andrew went faster to 'the limbo of the death'. When they arrived, Derek distracted the guards, but they were dead and immediately they could fool them. After, they took the potion and going where Santa Claus was making presents. Derek put the potion into a glass and when he drank it, it made effect and they escaped quickly. 

When they were in the Christmas world, Santa Claus, the nymph, Andrew and Derek began to make beautiful presents to save Christmas.

Christmas finished and Andrew returned to the orphanage. He now believes in Christmas! After two weeks, he began to remember their parents and the great adventure that he has lived, then began to be sick until he died. But he died knowing that he saved Christmas.

 'The future of a new world' (story by Valeria, Joselyn, and Noelia, winners from 2n ESO B)

Once upon a time, hundreds of years ago... In a parallel universe to our world, there was a world where evil ruled. And believe or not, their leader was Santa Claus. He knew all, but it was entirely different. Its main objective was to destroy anyone who got into his plans, so twisted and evil. But he didn't have any weapon, but with his magic power he inherited from his great-great grandfather, that made him special and so he had great respect.

His great enemies were the people from the planet Esmeralda, in which all were humble and good people. 

Recently there have been wars between the kingdom Esmeralda, and the kingdom of Santa Claus (Tatatim), but there was never a decisive winner.

Until the kingdom Tatatim was caught off guard and attacked the Esmeraldians by surprise. In that war, he killed many inhabitants of both worlds and many misfortunes occurred. But having spent several days in war, Esmeraldians came up with a 'fool-proof' plan, where love, friendship and hope were their secret weapons. As they have the most magical feelings that they may feel, they couldn’t understand Tatilians (Tatatim inhabitants). Thanks to this, they won the war and the remaining inhabitants of Tatatim were banished from his world and forced to never come back. For that reason, from Santa's worlds, they chose our universe, our solar system and eventually the Earth.   

Some warnings were changing the world: their personality changed and they couldn't get access to their magic. And the conditions were that: 1. they were not able to tell anybody about the other world, 2. they needed to travel by sleigh, pulled by some kind of domesticated animal and 3. that to reach their destination (the Earth), they had to make two turns to their moon, to look at ours.

Santa would expect there a pumpkin guide to the world of Halloween Town. And as he said, the pumpkin guide transported him to the ground through the GPS system that he installed.

On the trip, the guide will explain to Santa Claus everything that could be found there and advised that if someone discovers it, something unexpected will happen.

What Santa didn't know was that the pumpkin's intention was to crash the ship with Santa Claus. After his death, people reflect on the importance of faith and magic- one of the things that our world didn't have- and create magic and power through people's illusion and happiness. From this day, on December 25th, the spirit of Santa Claus delivers gifts to all the children of the world each year.

More stories...

 'The date change' (story by Marta R., Maria B., Michelle, Raquel and Judit S., winners from 2n ESO A)

Once upon a time, in California, one day before Halloween, there was a group of friends who were preparing a surprise party for Stephanie, one of the friends. The girls were to sleep over in Stephanie's house. At night, Stephanie turned the TV on and saw that they were talking about Christmas, but they didn't care and Teddy turned off the TV. 

The next morning, they woke up and went looking for Halloween costumes which had become Christmas costumes. The girls got scared and went to the dining room and saw that all the Halloween decoration had become Christmas decoration. 

Then went to Rosie's home, that was the closest home, and they found Andrew, Rosie's uncle in the basement. Andrew was reading a very old book. 

Kate then asked: -' what's this?' 

'It's a magic book, but it doesn't matter, I know why you came...something evil is happening, you have to go to the North Pole and fix what's happening...' 

Andrew gave a magic watch to Stephanie and told her: 'When you want to come back, press this button'. 

Then a very old door opened and sounded. From there, cold came out and the girls decided to go to see what was it. Rachel was the first to enter. Then all eyes closed and when opened  they were in the North Pole.

They didn't know why they were there; they met some elves, and followed them to the gifts factory of Santa Claus, but they saw Santa Claus was wearing a black suit. Then the girls investigated him. He was really evil with elves and made very bad gifts. They went to Santa's house, where they found a very suspicious truck. 

Taylor went to investigate the truck and touched a button. Suddenly, a door leading to a cave, opened and there were all the characters of Halloween and Christmas locked. The frightened girls didn't know what to do, but Taylor and Teddy thought of a plan. When they were going to come out, Anthony locked them. 

Rosie remembered her uncle going back home and then all the girls held hands, Rosie pressed the button and they disappeared. When they opened their eyes, they were next to Andrew, who was asking them what had happened. They all explained what happened. Andrew became angry but opened the magic door and they entered. They devised a magnificent plan: Andrew would go to stop Anthony and the girls would have to free the imprisoned characters.

When the girls released all the characters and went to find Andrew, they came into a room, in which there was a very rare statue and a man on the ground. Rosie ran to the man on the ground as she recognized that he was his uncle Andrew. 

When he opened his eyes and saw his favourite niece crying, he asked her: 'What's wrong?'

Then, she hugged him.

Rosie asked him what happened and he explained that he casted a spell on Anthony, Santa's evil twin brother, who froze in the middle of the room.

Santa Claus thanked them much what they had done. Also the King of Halloween thanked the girls and casted a spell that sent the girls and Andrew a day before in the past and erased their memory to make them think that it was only a dream.

When they woke up they all felt very strange, but nothing was changed: the decoration or the costumes. And the six friends had the best Halloween of all their lives!

The story by Marta Muñoz (winner of 1st ESO C)

• In a small town, called Infinitville, there was the end of the world. It happened that the end of the world was on Christmas Eve and everyone was scared and worried. Santa Claus was at home, he did not know it was the end of the world, he was very happy because it was Christmas Eve. He and his wife were having dinner at a train station. Santa's sleigh was broken, he was too tired. That night was difficult for him: he had to go around the world flying with his unicorn, and as he was fat, he didn't know if the unicorn could endure all night. Santa Claus thought: 'I would not get to deliver all the presents' and he decided to call eight poor children living in the streets, from a culture. Santa Claus took his 'teleporter' and transported the eight children to his home, in the North Pole. The kids were sad because it was the end of the world and they were too young to die. The children explained everything to Santa and he went blank. He looked at his magic ball and it turned out that it wasn't the end of the world, but that the witches, ghosts and monsters went to the children's house and robbed certain gifts because they hated them. Then Santa Claus left the children with Mama Claus and ran to talk to the monsters, witches and ghosts. Santa Claus told the bad people they were going to ruin Christmas and Santa Claus and these bad people came to an agreement: 'the children would stop hating them and they would leave children with Christmas'.
• After one hour: Santa Claus and the kids were on the runaway, ready to take off with their unicorns, and each of them carried two bags hanging on them (the unicorns). It was dawn; the children and Santa Claus were found in Mexico. They stopped to take some 'tacos' and then went to Santa's house to play with his toys.
• After ten years: The children living in the street were left to live at Santa's home and they weren't hungry anymore!

'The vampire's night' (story by Eva, Alba, Aina and Mª José, winners from 1st ESO B)

In Halloween, four friends called Aina, Mª José, Alba and Eva met to ask for sweets, and they were disguised as vampires. When they were there they asked for sweets in a house. It started to snow. They wanted to come home but they were too far away from their houses, only Alba's house was a bit near, so they went to Alba's house. When they went to this house, a man stopped them and gave them drinks, but these drinks were potions. They drank it and they became vampires, then they saw that this man was a vampire. They were thirsty and they saw a boy that fell off his skateboard. 

And they felt attracted to the boy's blood. Then they looked that their eyes were red. They ran to the house, and Alba's little brother, Enrique, has been watching a vampire's film, called 'Amanecer', and when he saw their eyes, he said: -'You're vampires! Aaaaaaaah! My sister is a vampire! Aaaaaaaaah!'.

And he ran to his bedroom. Then the girls ran to Alba's bedroom and searched on the Internet: 'vampires' information' and they saw the photo of the man that gave them the potion. Immediately, they ran to look for this man. And they found the man in the same street that he gave the potion. They convinced him to give them another potion to become humans. When he gave it and they drank it, they waited five minutes and they became humans.

Finally, they celebrated Christmas together.

'The bad brother of Noel' (story by Cristian, Ferran, Xavi, Eric, Sergi and Javi, winners from 1st ESO A)

One year, Noel doesn't want to give presents. 
One of his goblins says: -'Oh no! I'ts terrible!'
-'I don't want to give presents because children misbehave!' - says Noel.

In another place...
-'Ha, ha, ha! Christmas are spoilt! But I give some different presents...- says the brother of Noel.
The name of the secret brother of Noel is Hit Saw.

Hit Saw kidnaps Noel.

One goblin says: -'Oh no! It's terrible! We have to rescue Noel!

The Christmas night...
Hit Saw gives terrible presents. For example: The unicorns haven't got heads and the pets are snakes and spiders! The children are scared!

But the goblins rescue Noel and he changes in one moment the presents! They are fantastic! 
The goblins say: -'Hooray!'
The presents are unicorns! The pets are dogs, cats and rabbits!
Christmas is saved!!!

The End

Alternative individual task for 4th ESO

As some students of 4th ESO B requested, instead of making the trailer in groups, you can do an individual task on the book of The Skating Detective.

Remember that the task will not count as much as the group project of the trailer, but if you choose this option, this is what you have to do:

1. A summary (approx. of 10 lines) of each chapter of the book (14 in total, one for each chapter).
2. A personal opinion of the book (min. 10 lines).
3. A script of a possible trailer, including notes of the characters, the setting, the action, the costumes, etc. (see post on the instructions of the making of the trailer, but just focus on the script).

GROUP TASK 1: A collaborative Halloween-Christmas story

What would happen if we mixed two celebrations: Halloween and Christmas? 

Inspired by Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare before Christmas', the students of 1st and 2nd of ESO created, wrote and presented very original stories to the rest of classmates.

Here you can see some pics of their stories and soon you will be able to read the winner stories of each group of 1st and 2nd of ESO (to be uploaded soon)!!!

List of winners by year

1st ESO A: Cristian, Ferran, Xavi, Sergi, Eric and Javi's team

1st ESO B: Eva, Aina, Alba M. and Mª José's team

1st ESO C: Marta M.

2nd ESO A: Marta R., Maria B., Michelle, Raquel, Judit S. and Irene's team

2nd ESO B: Noelia, Valeria and Joselyn's team

2nd ESO C: Mireia, Paula S., Fute and Alba's team

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the students for their good work, great stories and willing to participate! :)