Halloween

At halloween american children in elementary schools take their costumes and masks to school.

Typical halloween costumes are the witch, ghost, skeleton, monster, vampire or alien.

Young people have fun making their own costumes but some prefer to buy them.

In the afternoon the children put on their costumes and have a halloween party at school.

Schools are decorated with pumpkins, ghosts, witches and bats.

It is a popular tradition to make jack-o-lanterns out of pumpkins.

People put them in front of the windows of their homes.

There are funny halloween games such as bobbing for apples.

Favorite halloween foods are candied, apples, nuts, licorice, popcorn and pumpkin pie.

American and british children and teenagers go trick-or-treating on halloween evening.

They go from house to house in their costumes and ring doorbells.

When the door opens they shout trick or treat.

People usually give them sweets or money.

If not the children play a trick.

They write on windows with soap or spray shaving cream on cars and people.

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pumpkin : potiron

witch : sorcière

ghost : fantôme

alien : extra-terrestre

bat : chauve-souris

jack-o-lanterns : citrouilles-lanternes

bobbing for apples : chercher des pommes

licorice : réglisse

trick or treat : des bonbons ou un sort