Videos about the history of Halloween

History of Halloween (The History Channel) - YouTube

Why Do We Celebrate Halloween? - YouTube

Halloween videos

6:Marco Tempest

A magical tale (with augmented reality)

Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity — all while working extraordinary illusions with his hands and an augmented reality machine.

https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_a_magical_tale_with_augmented_reality


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Playlist (10 talks): Spooky, creepy talks for Halloween

https://www.ted.com/playlists/198/spooky_creepy_talks_for_hallo

Funny:

Friends - Halloween Party, Part 1

Friends - Halloween Party, Part 2

History of the celebration:

Halloween History - Animated for Kids

Halloween competition: Write a ghost story!

THIS IS HALLOWEEN, HALLOWEEN, HALLOWEEN!

Great videos for advanced or adult learners:

Halloween history 1

Halloween history 2

Funny scene from Modern Family TV series

Top 10 Halloween songs

Girl explains about her Halloween project

 

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This year's Halloween photos.

 

The Tell -Tale heart

The protagonist of the story is a young servant who looks after an old sick man. The narrator has sensitive senses, which makes him claim that he is not a madman.It is obvious that the young servant does not really get on well with the old man as he hates his pale blue eye which he thinks that it looks at him every time he visits  the old man's chamber  .The young servant decides to eradicate  the old man in order to get rid of him and his pale blue eye.The obvious conclusion that can be drawn is that  sometimes jealousy and  suspicions can lead us to commit murder .

  Edgar Allan Poe was a writer who has  inspired others to write stories with suspense and with distinctive writing. The story amazed me as it has all the features that make a story tremendous and exciting . 

THE TELL-TALE HEART'BY EDGAR ALAN POE

    The story is about a young man who looked after an old one. The narrator claims to be no madman, but rather have a disease which makes his senses more sensitive. He seems to have no problem with the elder except one, he hates his eye. As a result, he decided to kill the man to get rid of this pale blue eye. While the narrator does say that he is not crazy, his doing lead us to think that he really is one.

  I really liked the tale, as it had a feature that every tale of this type should have, and that is suspense. Last but not least, the way he exhibited the events that happened in the story really inspired me.

 

Halloween links you can explore

The Visual History of Halloween

A short text with compehension questions

Video: In 1 minute 20 seconds you can turn the word bat into just that!

Photos of this celebration on The New York Times.

Test your knowledge with a quiz!

The Tell-Tale Heart' By Edgar Allan Poe

   The story written by Edgar Allan Poe is creepy and odd but simultaneously it is intriguing. The story is about a young man who lives with an old man. The young man has no problem with the old one . However there is a matter, the old man's 'vulture' eye which makes the young man's flesh crawl and it also makes him have hellish emotions; as a result, he becomes furious and mad at the evil eye and desires to murder the old man.

Edgar Allan Poe

According to his story, Edgar Allan Poe was a very weird person. In my opinion, he was a little crazy because of his thoughts that an eye kept watching him.This story was really exciting that is why I recommend you read it. The story is about a murder of an old man. Edgar and the elderly man got on well, but what Edgar believed was that the eye of the old man was always following him.Thats why he decided to commit a crime.

THE TELL-TALE HEART BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

The writer Allan Poe in this unique story describes us how he murdered an old man with whom he lived in the same house.The motive of this murder?The old man's eye,the "evil eye" as he called it.The writer describes us in a creepy way how every night for seven consecutive days he would watch the old man sleeping,waiting for the right time to murder him,but he's eye is closed.At the eighth day though the old man's time has come as he was awaken by a noise and he's "evil eye" was finally open something which made the murderer sure that the it was the right time to kill his victim.After killing him and not leaving any evidence he confesses to the police as he thought that they had already found out that he was the murderer.

THE TELL - TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe

The tell-tale heart is a short story told by an unnamed narrator who tries to proove his sanety, while describing a murder he commited. The victim is an old man with a blind eye who seems to stay in the same house with the narrator. Although he states that he loves the old man, he hates his only eye, which he calls "evil eye", and this eye made him murder the old man. He has planned to kill him and for seven nights he opens the door of  the old man's room steadidly, but the "vulture eye" is always closed, not letting him "do the work". On the eighth night, he awakens and as the narrator saw his wide opened eye and heard his heart beating loudly, he finally murders him. The scream of the old man being killed was heard by a neighbour who reported it to the police and three police officers arrived to the house. The main character has nothing to fear, as he has hidden all the evidence and put the corpse under the floor boards, so he invites them in to take a look around, but he starts to feel uncomfortable while being on the spot where the body is. He hears the heartbeat of the old man which increases steadidly, but the officers seem to pay no attention to it. Terrified by the violent beating of the heart, and convinced that the officers are aware of not only the heartbeat, but his guilt as well, the narrator confesses...

'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is well known poet for his particularly weird taste of thinking. In this very poem he puts himself in the shoes of an everyday man who is driven to murder by an old man. The man does not provoke or inflame him, but his eye the so called evil eye by the yong man, makes him to think of murdering the peacefull old man. And there is no doubt in his mind that this is what he has to do. So without further thinking he goes every night into the chamber of the old man and watches him. But the eye-the vulture eye- is closed,giving no reason to kill the old man.And on the eighth night the inevitable happens. As he goes in the pitch black room he makes a sound, a tiny tiny inappreciable sound. And the old man awakes. As they stand there for hours, not moving a muscle, the old man's heart starts to race. In fear of neighbours getting awaked by the deafening sound the young man storms in and shuts the eye close once and for all.