← English GamesOCTOBER 31 · AFTER DARK

A HALLOWEEN ENGLISH ADVENTURE

Halloween in
Mystic Falls

One town. Three missions.
A little magic. A very suspicious midnight.

Enter the night ↗
DECORATE · CAST SPELLS · INVESTIGATE0 treats collected

WELCOME TO THE SALVATORE HOUSE

A town worth
haunting.

Meet the Halloween things. Decorate the manor. Discover a few strange traditions.

01 / PICTURE + WORD

Meet the Halloween things

Choose a picture, then its English name.

02 / PICTURE + MEANING

What’s hiding in the picture?

Choose a picture, then its description.

03 / FIND THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS

The house isn’t spooky enough.

Find all six Halloween decorations. Say each word before you tap it.

04 / READ · CHOOSE · DECORATE

Your manor. Your Halloween.

Drag an item to its place. On a phone, tap an item and then a glowing spot.

05 / A SPOOKY LITTLE TRADITION

Little traditions.
Big spooky surprises.

Carved pumpkins, strange stories and treats at the door. Halloween has a few secrets…

Tap a picture to uncover its story.

SECRET 01

A pumpkin? Not always!

Uncover the story

Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland carved scary faces into turnips. A little vegetable became a spooky lantern!

turnip = репа · carve = вырезать

Would you rather carve a pumpkin or a turnip?

Story source: HISTORY ↗
SECRET 02

Who was Jack?

Uncover the story

In an Irish legend, a man called Stingy Jack wandered in the dark with a burning coal inside a turnip. “Jack of the Lantern” became jack-o’-lantern.

legend = легенда · lantern = фонарь

Invent a funny name for your own lantern.

Legend source: HISTORY ↗
SECRET 03

Sing for your treat!

Uncover the story

In the Scottish tradition of guising, children dressed in costumes and performed songs, jokes or little tricks to earn fruit or nuts. A tiny show at every door!

costume = костюм · earn = получить за что-то

What would you perform to earn a treat?

Tradition source: Scotland.org ↗
YOUR TURN / HALLOWEEN WORDS

People carve a face into a pumpkin and put a light inside. Ready to try?

06 / DID YOU KNOW?

Stranger than a ghost story

WATCH & TALK

One last Halloween moment

Watch the short. Which Halloween words can you spot? Describe one thing using “There is…” or “There are…”.

Open on YouTube ↗