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1. Find an article, story, movie, episode from a show or video on Youtube about the celebration of Halloween and investigate about the topic, analizing it. Focus on as many aspects as possible: Historical, symbology, food, costumes, sociocultural and the meaning and traditions in different parts of the world, etc, to summarize what Halloween is.

Now, separate in groups of two people and do as follows:

2. You may want to attach an audio, or perhaps just share a writing with the most important information about that particular piece you have found. Audio's length should be around 2 minutes long or maybe you rather just attach a file with a summary about 300-400 words.

3. Find inside the text or dialogue the next grammar points: At least a sentence containing a relative clause, a sentence that implies obligation, a sentence that implies lack of necessity, some connectors of contrast, a sentence that expresses possibility, a conditional sentence of any type and a passive sentence of any verb tense.

4. Vocabulary: Find several expressions, idioms and collocations and explain what they mean in the text and context you have found them.

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Here are some examples you may like to work on,  but it is preferable if you choose your own.

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Here are some examples you may like to work on,  but it is preferable if you choose your own.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48voU21uHIo

https://poestories.com/read/blackcat

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas

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What is Halloween?

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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix:

Summary:

This book gives the most Halloween feels. That the reason for our choice.

Louise, a divorced mom of a five year old receives the news that her parents passed away in Charleston. She felt anxious and does not want to return to her childhood house because among others is filled with her other’s dolls that are quite creepy. Her mom also had a puppet collection and the house is also filled with her father’s old work things. She is devastated because she loved her parents a lot but go into that house reminded her quite much of them.

Louise also didn’t want to confront her strange brother Mark who is stuck in being jobless and hating his sister’s accomplishments. But they need to work together on this if the want to repair the house so it looks good enough to be for sale. Soon we discover that something evils hides behind the walls, and both sibling have to fight together the evil to survive what it is haunting the house.

Review:

The book is horrific, scary, contains lots of suspense and the atmosphere is twisted. There are creepy dolls whose eyes follow you across the room, childhood and favourite toys, evil entities and plot twists, imaginary pets, axes scenes... and in general a Halloween gore atmosphere all along the reading.

The story unfolds a series of strange moments from childhood as things move around the house. The dark tones and the escalation of moments as they tried to clean out the house for sale, become more and more to create suspense and a horror atmosphere. It felt terrifying looking at puppets and dolls the way they were described.

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3. Find inside the text or dialogue the next grammar points:

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Grammar:

Relative clauses:

“He’d been so upset when she said no that she’d finally had pity sex with him, which was how she came to be in her current condition.”

Chapter 1. Page 10.

Obligation:

“Married or not, we have to meet his family,”

Chapter 1. Page 9.

Lack of necessity:

“Dad,” Louise said, “you don’t have to come right now.”

Chapter 1. Page 9.

Some connectors of contrast:

“However, being a single mom had made Louise an expert at doing things she’d rather avoid.”

Page 25.

“Despite the baby talk, Louise smiled, happy to deliver good news.”

Page 116.

A sentence that implies possibility:

“Louise thought it might not go well, so she told her parents she was pregnant over the phone, from three thousand miles away, in San Francisco.”

Page 8.

Conditional sentence:

“If they could do this until lunch, then go on a walk around the Presidio, then dinner, Louise figured everything would be fine.” (second conditional)

Page 10.

Passive sentence:

“She’d even seen it classified as a disorder—Oldest Sibling Syndrome—and that made her wonder what Mark’s disorder was.” Past perfect passive voice sentence.

Page 11.

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Vocabulary: Find several expressions, idioms or collocations and explain what they mean in the text and context you have found them.   

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Idiom:

“Louise knew that her not speaking to Mark was the eternal elephant in the room, the invisible ghost at the table, the phantom strain on every interaction with her parents, especially with her mom, who hated what she called “unpleasantness.””

Page 12

“But her mom kept picking it for her bedtime story, oblivious to the fact that Louise would lie rigid while she read, hands gripping the sheet, staring at the ceiling as her mom did all the voices.”

Page 14

-Elephant in the room means that it was a controversial issue was for the family, Louise not talking to her brother Mark. Louise mum thinks that she always tries to avoid difficult situations.

- A story we usually tell to soothe and calm anxieties of kids at night before sleep.

Expression:

“It wouldn’t happen overnight, but that was okay”

Page 12.

Louise new role and adjustment wouldn’t happen from one day to another, she needed the time to transform.

Collocation:

“There would be no Velveteen Rabbit in this house, even if she had to fight dirty.”

Louise won’t make the same mistake again, she won’t confuse masochism with love with her own daughter.

Page 15

“He had once invested thousands of dollars in a Christmas tree factory in Mexico that turned out to be a scam because he had a “gut feeling” about it. Louise needed to know for sure.”

Page 18

Louis brother Mark thought that his idea of business was going to come out well in the first place, but it turn out to be a scam.