Webquest: Halloween

Activity 1

1. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain

2. Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France

3. It was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

4. Crops

5. Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

6. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes.

7. They re-lit their hearth fires to help protect them during the coming winter

8. The Roman Empire

9. Feralia and a day to honour Pomona

10. All Souls' Day, a day to honour the dead

11. Big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils

12.  All-hallows or All-hallowmas

13. All-hallows Eve, Halloween.

Activity 2

1.       A man nicknamed "Stingy Jack."

2.       He keeps the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, because the cross prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.

3.       He would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul.

4.       Jack tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark to prevent the devil coming down from the tree.

5.       Jack died

6.       His soul wasn’t accepted by both heaven and hell.

7.       Jack of the Lantern, simply "Jack O'Lantern."

8.       They began to make their own versions of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placed them in their windows and doorways to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits.

9.       Pumpkins

Apple- bobbing

1.       Fill a tub or a large basin with water and put apples in the water. Then players try to catch one with their teeth.

2.       Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface.

3.       Teeth

4.       Hands

Trick-or-treating

1.       Candy, sweets

2.       Trick or treat

3.       The trick is a treat to perform mischief on he homeowners or their property if no treat is given.

4.       Early 1950s

5.       They decorate their entrances. Some just leave the candy in bowls on the porch. Others might even ask an effort from the children in order to provide them with candy.

6.       Great Britain and Ireland

7.       Souling and Guising

8.       Children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cake in terms of Souling. For Guising, children ask for food and coins. For trick or treat, children just ask for candies.

9.        Skull

Bus on fire!!

A L94 bus was on fire at Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, about 9.30am today. The actual fire was below the window at the back and started from inside.  There was a explosion, but what led the fire has not been found yet. Every one on the bus was panic, but forturnatly all the 30 passengers got off the bus without being injuryed.

The Big Scan game - Who murdered Angela Spelling?

This is a game based on a crime story.
A woman named Angela Spelling was killed at 10:30 pm on 14th February 2002. She was found dead in the bathtub in room 22 in Sleaze Inn Hotel. According to clues that I found in this game, I found the hotel maid, Manuella Novella, was the murder. She found her husband, Don Juan Fiction, had an affair with Angela Spelling. She was so jealousy and couldn't stand what she had seen. Thus she planned all steps to kill Angela and made the crime scene to look like a suicide. First, the maid druged Angela with sleeping pills. When the drugs worked, Mannuella moved her to the bathtub and cut her wrists deeply. Angela was too weak to fight back. She only grabed a piece of fabric from Mannuella's uniform. Then, Mannuella wrote a message ' Sorry, it was all too much' on the mirror. Lastly, she cleaned the blood footprints left by herself on the flore and left. Finally, Angela died because of  loss of blood from cuts on her wrists.
I have been kept using scanning and skimming when I was playing the game. Usually the reading is boring. However, when the reading is combined with a game, the game makes the reading more interesting. I had a lot of fun; moreover, my reading skills are improved at the same time. It is a brilliant way to study English.