Great ESL Halloween Activities for your classroom

Halloween is coming and it’s an excellent theme for the classroom! Check out these 7 great activities to add to your ESL class that your students will love!

1. What am I?

Give all the students a card with a picture of something halloween related on it. Witches, pumpkins, skeletons, vampires - whatever comes to mind!

Take it in turns for each student to describe what is on their card without showing their classmates, and the classmates have to guess what they are!

https://busyteacher.org/17448-10-fun-halloween-games-english-practice.html

2. Write a spooky story

This will test your students’ writing as well as their creativity. Have a quick brainstorming session before to start them off and let them have fun creating a terrifying story.

If they like art and they have the time, what not let them draw a picture to go with it?

The students will also have a great time reading them aloud to the class and vote who wrote the scariest story!

https://busyteacher.org/17448-10-fun-halloween-games-english-practice.html

3. Haunted House Brochures

Visiting a haunted house can be a popular weekend trip for many people!

Ask your students - would they visit a haunted house? What do they think it would be like? You could then give them the task of designing a brochure advertising a fantastic holiday getaway to a haunted house!

This could be completed as a group, in pairs or solo.

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/esl-halloween-activities/

4. Halloween crosswords and wordsearches

A crossword or a wordsearch is a great filler if you need to fill some time - why not make it Halloween themed?

There are some great free ones to check out if you click the link below.

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/halloween

5. A-Z Vocabulary Challenge

Organise your students into pairs/teams and provide them with a piece of paper. Get them to write down the alphabet on a piece of paper and think of a Halloween themed word for each letter.

Give them a set amount of time, and whichever group ends up with the most wins!

https://teachinginkoreanuniversity.com/esl-halloween-activities/

6. Halloween tongue twisters

Give your students a sheet with these tongue twisters and let them have fun saying them in pairs!

1. Crazy children crave candy wearing chilling costumes.

2. If two witches would watch two watches. Which witch would watch which watch?

3. Creepy crawling critters crawl carelessly through crazy creepy corridors.

4. If big black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?

5. Seven spindly spiders spin spooky silk speedily.

6. Glowing ghosts gobble goodies.

And why not see if your students can create their own?!

https://myteflsolutions.com/halloween-esl-classroom/

7. Halloween Idioms

Generally students enjoy idioms, and there are some great Halloween related ones, so it’s a great themed lesson idea!

1. Blind as a bat

2. It is dead and buried

3. A dead loss

4. Drop-dead

5. Devil in disguise

6. Dig your own grave

7. Pale as a ghost

8. Skeleton in the closet

https://myteflsolutions.com/halloween-esl-classroom/

We hope you like these great Halloween activities!