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Happy Halloween !

EL ORIGEN DE HALLOWEEN

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What Are You Afraid Of?

Warm-up: What Are You Afraid Of? (15 min)

1. Set the tone by dimming the lights, shutting the blinds and turning on spooky sounds:

For kids: http://bit.ly/2qooEkH

For adults: http://bit.ly/2J5Wphq

2. Using your phone’s flashlight, lit your face from below.

3. Ask: Do you like to be scared?

4. If the room is dark, let your students run free for a minute, spooking each other. They can also use flashlights in their phones or sneak up on their friends.

If the class atmosphere doesn’t allow that, move on to the next step.

5. After they’ve warmed up, ask: What are you afraid of?

6. Students name things they are afraid of. Ask volunteers to come to the board and write their suggestions down. 

For example:

Spiders, Ghosts, Vampires, Heights, Darkness, Bats, Homeworks, etc. 

7. Eventually, you should have 10 – 15 scary examples to work with. Next, you’re going to find the scariest thing of them all.

8. Ask your students to individually pick 2 – 3 things they are truly afraid of.

9. Decide on an action, e.g.: hide your face under the desk or run out of the classroom.

10. Go over all the spooky examples and count the number of students that performed the action. Write that number next to the example. 

Video: History of Halloween (15 min)

 

Questions:

1.Who started Halloween and when? 

2.When was the Celtic New Year? 

3.What happened on the night before the New Year? 

4.Why did the Celts celebrate Halloween? 

5.What’s the origin of the word ‘Halloween’?

6.What vegetables did the Celts use for Jack-o-lanterns? 

7.Why did they carve faces in produce? 

Solutions:

1.(Celts, 2,000 years ago)

2.(1st November)3.(the ghosts came to life)

3.(the ghosts came to life)

4.(to protect themselves from these ghosts)

5.(holy evening) 

6.(potatoes and turnips)

7.(to guide good spirits into their homes)

Optional Create a Halloween Mask (15 – 25 min)

1. Provide your students with materials such as coloured paper, markers, cardboard, string, crayons, glitter, etc. 

2. Show them this video for reference: http://bit.ly/31zcna6

And/Or some pictures: 

http://bit.ly/2MxLmPT

http://bit.ly/2MzQ5ke

http://bit.ly/2Bvjgyx

 Optional Halloween Kahoot (15 min)

If you don’t know Kahoot it is a phenomenal classroom resource. Before you begin make sure that there is at least one internet device per 2 students in your classroom. 

1. Set up the game by following this link: http://bit.ly/2MAYjJ4

2. Instruct your students to type: kahoot.it into their search engine. 

3. Follow the instructions and enjoy the game.

Happy Halloween en Segundo

Halloween costume

Good mobile phone habits

♦ 1. Don't check your mobile phone before 9 AM. 
Meditate, Exercise, Sing, Dance, or do anything else that you like. 

♦ 2. NEVER check your mobile phone in the middle of the sleep. 
Very bad and unhealthy habit. Strengthens insomnia and spoils your eyes.

♦ 3. Disable ALL notifications (Facebook / Gmail / WhatsApp, etc.). 
Help you be more focused on your real life, and saves a lot of energy. 

♦ 4. Keep Wi-Fi / Mobile Data OFF when not in use. 
Save Internet and Mental Energy. Check at certain times only. Discipline is the key to success. 

♦ 5. Never fight over text messages. Period. 
Meet face to face and sort out issues. Don't reply to nasty messages. 

♦ 6. Be Organized. 
Delete unwanted / obsolete media. Organize photos and videos by folders. 

♦ 7. Don't block anybody, ever. 
Simply ignore! 

♦ 8. Don't check the phone for every notification. 
Have a rule to check your phone only at specific times of the day or only after a specific number of notification sounds heard. 

♦ 9. NEVER check your phone while eating. 
Eating food is the most basic necessity of life. It's like a celebration. Unless it's an emergency situation, of course. 

♦ 10. Keep your phone at least a few feet away while sleeping. 
This will help you in changing your habit of checking it easily in the middle of the night. 

♦ 11.Do more real things that will keep you away from your phone. 
That's the real life that we all want, but we don't do anything about.  

♦ 12.Throw away the mobile phone when someone is talking to you. 
The WORST habit in the world is not paying attention when someone is talking to you.

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The pros and cons of mobile phones for students

Any new technology, no matter how beneficial, comes the potential for abuse. Video games, YouTube, and other multimedia commonly consumed on smartphones can become significant distractions especially for young students, while social media is known for its addictive characteristics, as well as being a breeding ground for cyberbullying and other socialization problems

Positive impacts

There’s no denying the potential for phones as an educational tool.

Smartphones enable access to encyclopedias, videos, and entire libraries of knowledge, right in one’s pocket.

Another advantage is the potential for collaborative learning, especially for group projects. Students are able to organize, share notes and information. The same collaborative and teleconferencing tools that businesses once could only dream of, are now available to every student thanks to their smartphone.

Negative impacts

smartphones absolutely can be a distraction. Popular video game has made it to the news as a significant distraction for smartphone-equipped students. Another issue is social media addiction and cyberbullying. There have been many cases of this throughout the years as social media proliferated. students sometimes just capture photos of notes with their phones rather than writing them down.

What is your opinion on the use of mobile phones?

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