Happy Halloween: Jack Lantern Story

Students:

It's Halloween time boys and girls and the most famous Halloween's character is Jack O'Lantern and this is his story:

  Jack Lantern Story

Jack, it seems, was a bad man. He kept all his money to himself. He wouldn't help people for all of his life.

When Jack died, he wasn't allowed into Heaven because he was such a miser: a person who wouldn't share his money.

It seems that Jack also had played tricks on the Devil, who wouldn't let him into hell, either.

Jack was stuck. He had to walk the earth, holding a lantern,until Judgment Day.

This is the story that has been handed down to us by the Irish people who came to America in the 1800s. They carved their turnips into the face of "Jack-of-the-lantern" to remind themselves what happened to people who were misers. And in the fall, pumpkins are much easier to find than turnips.

So that's why Americans today carve their pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.

Jack O' Lantern

Level: 3rt and 4th of Primary School.

Teachers:

This is a brief story of Jack O'Lantern, you can read the story aloud and explain briefly the importance of Halloween in anglosaxon countries. As you know, it is very important the sociocultural competence and we teach not only English by also anglosaxon custom and traditions. You can print the text and give it to the students and made them read the text aloud. So they are practising the reading skill.