- Levels: A2B1B2
- Lesson Types: Lesson Plans
- Recommended for: Download and Go
- Themes:
🕑 60 minutes
🎚 A2, B1, B2
🎯 -ed and -ing adjectives, Halloween vocabulary
🕑 0-5 minutes
– Print one worksheet for each student.
– Print the Teacher’s Insights or keep them at hand as they contain the answers to the exercises.
Kickoff: speaking intro on Halloween and days to remember the dead
Vocabulary Focus: match Halloween words to definitions
Speaking I: use the new vocab & answer questions
Reading: read where Halloween comes from and answer questions
Grammar Focus: learn -ed and -ing adjectives (scared or scary?) and choose the right one
Speaking II: talk about feelings with -ed and -ing adjectives
Speaking III: match superstitions (if + will) and talk about them
Story Time: fun filler game: tell a spooky story together, one sentence each
Get your students talking about pumpkins, costumes and ghost stories with this Halloween ESL lesson plan and printable worksheet for A2 to B2 learners.
Detailed Description
In today’s lesson, students find out where Halloween comes from, learn the vocabulary that goes with it and practise the difference between -ed and -ing adjectives (scared or scary?).
The lesson begins with a kickoff conversation about Halloween and days to remember the dead, followed by a vocabulary exercise where students match eight Halloween words to their definitions and then use them in conversation.
Next, students read about the history of Halloween, from the Celtic festival of Samhain to American trick-or-treating, and answer questions on the text.
The grammar focus explains -ed and -ing adjectives, and students practise them by talking about their own feelings. They then match some well-known superstitions and talk about them.
The lesson ends with a fun filler game: the class tells a spooky story together, one sentence each.
English language learning material for ESL and EFL teachers, for both classroom and online lessons. Last updated October 2026.