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YOUR ENGLISH SECTION
Dear “Yes – Club”!
We’ve been your fans for many years! Every time when we open your page our hearts tremble. We are against boring school routine, and your page is like fresh wind that we are waiting for! We firmly believe that your page creates an aura of a wonderful world of imagination, creativity and understanding. You made us surprised with our own talents, when Gane Kudrina and Tatiana Kudrina (our students) got the first prize in the contests “Monuments Have thoughts” and “Interview”. Now we’d like to offer you our Halloween poems and compositions. Maybe it will be interesting for you to read.
Happy Halloween!
With love, Gymnasium 42,
Kemerovo

HALLOWEEN CHARACTERS

A Witch-Lady (or our teacher of English).
She knows almost everything about Halloween. She always creates something new for her evil friends, for example, rules how to scare kids, and how to make disgusting costumes. She may be very kind, elegant and pleasant to do different things with, but suddenly she may turn out to be a real witch-lady, with a strict, loud and even dangerous character. She is a Halloween lady!

Mr. Bat. It is neither a bird nor a rat, that’s why it appears on Halloween. It’s black and you can’t easily see it; that’s why it scares you flying out of the dark. It has a nasty grin, especially when it bites you with its sharpest teeth. It has fire-red eyes that sparkle terribly and make you freeze wherever you are. You must watch out for bats! (Or maybe it would be better to dress as a bat yourself?)

Mr. Brownie. A very kind creature. He lives in your house and keeps the atmosphere of love, happiness and understanding in the family. He enjoys poking his nose in our business and if you haven’t done your homework and try to hide this fact away, beware! He’ll punish you very strictly. In the morning when you are late for school and the first lesson is English, and you know that your English teacher sees red every time when you are late for the lesson – ouch! You won’t be able to find your English textbook! You see he can take revenge upon you!

Mr. Skeleton. A very crazy fellow. One day he came to a witch and asked her to be his wife. He rattled the bones, kissed her hand and became green with envy when a young and very pretty devil smiled at her with a disgusting grin. Everyone wants to love and to be loved, even such a crooked limbed fellow!

Mr. Vampire. He is very scary to look at! He has a disgusting grin, the sharpest teeth, and glittering eyes longing for a victim. He is blood-crazy! He likes to make boys and girls suffer. Nobody can do such dreadful tricks! He is so cruel and bloodthirsty, so ugly and awful!

Mr. Jack O’ Lantern. He is the King of Halloween. He is as huge as the Moon on Halloween night. He lights the way for strangers and scares evil spirits that walk at night haunting innocent souls. He is as magnificent as the Halloween night that is full of whispers, the rustles of leaves and scurries of little mice feet. It’s a pity, but in the morning magnificent Jack O’ Lantern turns into a rotten pumpkin. Such is life! All parties come to an end! All is well that ends well! Happy Halloween!

HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY

(You may use it to compose your own poems, or to write your own composition.)

  • To bring mischief

  • To ruin crops

  • To turn into a frog

  • To steal

  • To move furniture at night

  • To change shape

  • To grab a nose, to bite toes

  • To punish children

  • To slink at night

  • To purr softly

  • To hop up and down

  • To scare little children

  • To be afraid of

  • To be frightened with

  • To rattle the bones

  • To smile with satisfaction

  • To grin a disgusting grin

  • To sack

  • To dive into water

  • To chill of horror

  • To giggle

  • To have a special power

  • To be horrible-looking

  • To have the scariest disguise

  • To bring good (bad) luck

  • To sparkle with shimmering lights

  • To scream scarily

  • To whisper in a soft, low voice

  • To yell

  • To shut windows against cold wind

  • To be full of cold sunlight

  • A scurry of little mice feet

  • Muted cries

  • Flickering of fire lights

  • To prowl down the street

  • To be invisible like unseen cats

  • To shiver

  • Everything seemed to be cut from soft black, gold and orange velvet Pumpkin’s smell

  • Yipping dogs

  • A great hand of night

  • The air smells of something wrong, something dangerous

  • To sniff each other like fearful beasts

  • To hide

  • A rotten pumpkin

You may start your compositions with:

  • A little ghost drank a lot of milk and…

  • A witch climbed the broomstick and…

  • Ouch! Gabby Goblin’s toe hit…

  • Little spooks made sandwiches with…

  • A green monster whispered…

  • A black cat sat on my lap and…

  • A big monster grinned his disgusting grin and…

  • A silly skeleton dived into water and…

  • A bloodthirsty vampire giggled and…

HALLOWEEN POEMS

Halloween Party

The stars are shining,
The leaves fall down,
The Moon is huge,
The trees are brown.
I see the party of evil spirits
And I can’t study
Because I feel it.

I see a pumpkin,
A cat, a spider.
They all are jumping,
They all are biting.
I see three witches
I make a decision:
They are my teachers
Or just some vision.
The stars are lazy,
The leaves fall down
I’m going crazy in an autumn town!

By Fedotova Nadya

Halloween Upside Down

At that night I saw a white cat
And Mr.Skeleton was very fat,
Goblins were very sad.
I thought I would go mad.
It was snowing and everything was white.
At that night everything was very quitet.
It seemed I saw the devil’s fight,
But maybe something was wrong with my mind?

By Zinkevich Elena

What does it mean?

Yellow, brown, orange and red,
Lately I’ve seen a dead smiling rat.
What does it mean that I have seen?
Oh, I know it’s Halloween!
Yellow, red, orange and brown,
Lately I’ve seen a giggling crow.
What does it mean that I have seen?
Oh, I know it’s Halloween!
I saw a rat, I saw a crow,
Red and yellow, orange and brown.
Halloween, Halloween,
What does it mean that I have seen?

By Kasyanov Paul

What I’ve heard at Halloween night?

I’ve heard on Halloween night
That millions of spooks want to hide.
I think that they suck souls of poor,
And as for me it’s so cruel!

I’ve heard a scurry of little mice feet,
Red, pure blood for them is so sweet!
The evil spirits prowl down the streets,
That is the place where all witches meet!

But there sometimes on Halloween
I watch them disgustedly grin.
To fly with witches in the dark awful night,
To hear the flickering of bright firelights!

By Vaganova Ulyana