A carved pumpkin

A lamp used for camping

С приглушенным светом и мерцающими «Джеками-фонарями» Хэллоуин вот-вот начнется. Что такое «Джек-фонарь»?

Специальное устройство, чтобы сменить колесо

Всадник без головы

Резная тыква

Фонарь для кемпинга

13. Why do skeletons always have a bad cold? Because they are chilled to the bones!

Почему у скелета всегда сильная простуда? Потому что они всегда промерзают до костей!

14. What do female ghosts use to do their makeup? Vanishing Cream!

Что используют женщины-призраки, чтобы наложить макияж? Исчезающий крем!

15. It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?

Man (or woman). Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult and uses two legs and a cane when they're old.

Что ходит на четырех ногах утром, на двух днем, и на трех вечером. Что это? Человек

16. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Darkness

Чем больше этого у вас, тем видите вы меньше. Что это? Темнота

17. I am always hungry,

I must always be fed,

The finger I touch,

Will soon turn red Fire

Всегда я голоден,

и должен быть всегда накормлен я,

и если пальца я коснусь,

то вскоре станет он багряным. Огонь

18. All about, but cannot be seen,

Can be captured, cannot be held,

No throat, but can be heard. The wind

Я вездесущ, но все, же я не видим,

Поймаешь ты меня, но не удержишь,

Нет горла у меня, но можешь ты меня услышать. Ветер

19. My life can be measured in hours,

I serve by being devoured.

Thin, I am quick

Fat, I am slow

Wind is my foe. A candle

Жизнь моя измеряется часами,

Служу я тем, что я сгораю.

Если тонка я, то быстро я горю,

Если же толста я, то медленно горю я.

Ветер же есть враг мой. Свеча

20. Gentle enough to soothe the skin,

Light enough to caress the sky,

Hard enough to crack rocks. Water

Достаточно нежна, чтоб кожу успокоить,

Достаточно легка, чтоб небеса ласкать,

Достаточна тверда, чтоб скалы расколоть. Вода

21. Say my name and I disappear. What am I? Silence

Упомяни меня и я исчезну. Что я? Тишина

22. What do you call a skeleton who won't work? Lazy bones

23. What do you call a fat Jack-O-Lantern? A pumpkin

24. Where do baby ghosts go during the day? Dayscare centers

25. Why don't skeletons like parties? They are nobody to dance with

26. What do witches put on their hair? Scare spray

27. What was the favorite game at the ghosts' birthday party? Hide and shriek

28. How does a witch tell time? She looks at her witch watch

29. What do the birds sing on Halloween? Twick or tweet

30. What is Transylvania's national sport? Drac racing

31. More you take, more you leave behind. What are they? - Footsteps

32. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short.

33. Definition of Census taker - A man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

34. Name the parts of speech. Parts of Speech - Lungs and air.

35. What is a spinal column? Spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

Tricks (Pranks & Games)

1. Read the Cursed Text

The people of Grave's End just discovered that someone -- or something! -- has messed with the town's famous historical marker. It might have been bewitched by a legendary pirate ghost that haunts the village! Oddly, many villagers can still read the sign. Can you?

What's Going On: Reading hexed text is easier than it looks, right? Language experts aren't entirely sure why, but one theory is that we don't usually read words letter by letter, we read them as whole units. So keeping the first and last letters of jumbled words in the right positions helps us decode them. Using short words and predictable language and mixing in words that are spelled correctly are also thought to have an effect. Does that make sense?

Text

On tihs sopt in 1708, the rseidnets of Grave's End fuoght a btatle agiasnt the priate Captain E. Ville Dewar and his wckied cerw. The btatle wnet on for tirheten dyas and edend Octoebr 31, wehn the ctizeins sank thier sihp. Smoe say the veengful Captain apaeprs ervey Haloleewn to cuase msicheif in the twon. Msot cizitnes rfesue to bleeive in the ghsot leegnd, clalnig it "nnonesse."

2. Orange contest

For this contest 8 people are needed (two teams). Pass the orange without the help of your arms. Hold it between you chin and chest and pass the same way. Don’t use your hands! The fastest team wins. (better at PT)

3. Horrified Alphabet

For this contest 2 people are needed. Read the English/Russian/Belarusian Alphabet as though you’re reading a horror story/ watching a horror movie.

Cards:

A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z

АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЬЪЫЭЮЯ

4. Feeding Contest

For this contest 4 people are needed. Feed your partner with a zephyr without using your hands. The one who manages it quicker wins!

5. Creatures

Create a new creature, which nobody has seen before. Give name to it. Use different part of animals.

6. What Am I?

Pin or tape Halloween-themed pictures on each guest’s back (without the guest seeing what it is). While others can only give yes or no answers, each guest must guess what he or she is.

7. Gestures

One of the “trickers” shows 5 gestures the “victim” should guess. If answer is a correct one, the “tricker” gives a humorous explanation.

a) Calm down, don’t worry. Humorous answer: the typical spooky ghost pose.

b) That’s it! How clever you’re! Humorous answer: the witch flew that way.

c) Can’t you see it’s so simple! Humorous answer: the magic spell is due to appear.

d) OK(the USA). Zero(France). Money (Japan). Humorous answer: the fresh eyes were sooooooooo tasty.

e) Protection from bad luck (South America). Texas football team logo (the USA). Heavy metal forever! Humorous answer: Devil promised to be there. Or Devil is with you.

d) Hitchhiking. Good (every country). One (Europe). Go to hell (Australia)! Humorous answer: the way to stop a vampire to say “The dinner is served”

8. Cut the sweets

You need a rope with sweets on, a pair of scissors and a scarf. The “tricker” ties the eyes of the victim, spins him/her. Then leads to the rope with the sweets and asks to cut them. The holders of the rope may lower the rope or put it higher.

9. Find them all

You need a scarf, 10 clothespins and a couple of people of course. The “tricker” puts clothespins on one of the participants, the other has a scarf on his\her eyes. The task is to take off all 10 pins.

10. What I’ve got in my pants (pockets)

You need some scraps of paper with the Halloween related phrases, a small box or packet to put them in. And people to play of course. The participant starts with the phrase “ I’ve got in my pants (pockets)…. ” and then reads out what’s on his/her scrap of paper.

Scraps: dead silence, sleepy hollow (Сонная Лощина), Macbeth, residence evil (обитель зла), кощеева смерть, ступа с Бабою Ягой, Gollum and his Precious, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, silent hill, Casper the Friendly Ghost, magic wand, fire dragon, Shrek, stinky troll…..

11. Confessions

You need 2 packs of cards: 1) the beginnings of the sentences; 2) the endings of the sentences. The packs are tossed. The participants first take a card from the first pack, read it out with the intriguing tone and then take a card from the second pack and read it out. The beginnings and the endings are a pure “mystery” matching.

Cards with the beginnings of the sentences:

1. Every full-moon to my bedroom comes a……

2. In my childhood I’ve dreamt of becoming …………….

3. Recently I’ve learned that I’m an illegitimate child of ……………….

4. I want to have children from ………………..

5. I presume that the title “the most gorgeous creatures on Earth” should go to ……

6. I’m trembling with fear every time I hear someone mentioning ……………

7. Right at midnight I turn into ……………………….

8. I’ve subscribed to twitter …………………………

9. In my childhood my parents gently/tenderly called me ……………………..

10. I think that our monitor (supervising teacher) is in reality a …………………….

Cards with the endings of the sentences:

1. Shrek

2. Freddie Kruger

3. Gollum

4. Banshee (female ghost-moaner)

5. Living dead

6. Poltergeist

7. Merlin Manson

8. Grim Ripper

9. Loki the God of Mischief

10. Werewolf

NB! банши - фольклорный персонаж: привидение-плакальщица, чьи завывания под окнами дома предвещают обитателю этого дома смерть

12. How much do you remember?

Remember five horror movies about Halloween.

13. Say it right

You need a candy and a couple of boys. The “tricker” asks the participants, if they have any problems with their speech. After that the host says the task, which is quite simple – to introduce themselves, but only with a candy in their mouth. Every time the task is getting more difficult: the number of words and candies multiplies (Name, Name and Date of birth, Name, Date of birth and Occupation ……). The winner is the one who can speak clearly with several candies in.

14. Vampire’s Dinner

You need 3-4 participants, some scraps of paper and pens. You all know that vampires bite in order to drink blood. Now you have some paper and write 2 parts of the body you like. Put the papers into a special packet. The “tricker” tosses the papers. The participants in turns take a paper out, than they are ordered to stand to each other with the described parts of the body. The task is to hold a minute in that position.

15. Spooky Bag

You need a bag or a box covered with the cloth, several objects with a strange structure to the touch. The participants are to guess what they are holding in their hands. The “tricker” should give a spooky description to what can it be.

16. Stick the Donkey’s Tail

You need a big picture of the donkey, a tail and a scarf. The “tricker” ties the eyes of the participant, spins him/her and leads to the picture. The closer the participant to the target the better. The participant gets a small prize.

17. What’s on your mind?

You need pieces of music and a hat. The “tricker” goes with the hat to each person, holds it above the head and the other “tricker” plays any track of music (on the cellphone).

18. Twist your tongue

1) Bobby Bippy bought a bat.

Bobby Bippy bought a ball.

With his bat Bob banged the ball

Banged it bump against the wall

But so boldly Bobby banged it

That he burst his rubber ball

"Boo!" cried Bobby

Bad luck ball

Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball

Now to drown his many troubles

Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

from mid-Willamette Valley theater

2) How many cans can a cannibal nibble

if a cannibal can nibble cans?

As many cans as a cannibal can nibble

if a cannibal can nibble cans.

3) Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

4) But a harder thing still to do.

What a to do to die today

At a quarter or two to two.

A terrible difficult thing to say

But a harder thing still to do.

The dragon will come at the beat of the drum

With a rat-a-tat-tat a-tat-tat a-tat-to

At a quarter or two to two today,

At a quarter or two to two.

from a college drama class

5) Der Braumeister zu Zipf zapft zehn Fässer Zipfer.

6) Balach beag bìodach a' bocadaich air bàrr baraille. (Scottish Gaelic)

7) It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht. (Scottish)

8) Kleine Kinder können keine kleinen Kirschkerne knacken.

Kleine Kirschkerne können kleine Kinder keine knacken.

9) Сев в такси спросила такса: "За проезд какая такса?"

А таксист ответил так: "Возим такс мы просто так-с."

10) Сделан коплак не по-колпаковски, сделан колокол не по-колоколовски. Надо колпак перколпаковать, перевыколпаковать. Надо колокол переколоколовать, перевыколоколовать.

11) Говорит попугай попугаю: "Я тебя, попугай, попугаю!"

Попугаю в ответ попугай: "Попугай, попугай, попугай!"

12) Корабли лавировали, лавировали, да не вылавировали.

13) Мишки гризли мышку грызли, но не загрызли мышку гризли.

Group 3

Treats (Questions & Riddles)

How much do you know about Halloween and things that go bump in the night? Try these Halloween Fun Quiz questions and find out!

1. True or False: El día de los muertos(Day of the Dead), a fiesta observed in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking cultures on Nov. 1 shares some of its history and roots with Halloween. True

Правда/Неправда: День Мертвецов, праздник, отмечаемый в Мексике и других испано-говорящих культурах 1го ноября, имеет некоторую общую историю и корни с Хэллоуином.

2. Who believed that souls of the dead visited the earth every October 31st?

The Celts (correct)

The Mexicans

The Gypies

none of the above

Кто из перечисленных народов верил, что души умерших посещают землю каждый октябрь 31 числа?

Кельты

Мексиканцы

Цыгане

Никто из них

3. True or False: In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses. True

Правда/Неправда: В Ирландии, частенько говорили, что драгоценные камни и кристаллы имели способность сохранять проклятья.

4. Frankenstein was written by:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bram Stoker

Elizabeth Lunt

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (correct)

Роман «Франкенштейн» был написан ….

Перси Биш Шелли

Брем Стокер

Елизавета Лант

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