Have some fun with these Halloween riddles !
Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
He didn´t have the guts.
What do skeletons say before they begin dining?
Bone appétit!
What do ghosts serve for dessert?
Ice scream!
Why do witches fly on brooms?
Vacuum cleaner cords aren´t long enough.
When is it bad luck to meet a black cat?
When you are a mouse.
What was the witch's favorite subject in school?
Spelling.
What do you call a skeleton who won't work?
Lazy bones.
Where do baby ghosts go during the day?
Dayscare centers.
Why don't skeletons like parties?
Because they have no body to dance.
What do witches put on their hair?
Scare spray.
Who won the skeleton beauty contest?
No body.
What do the birds sing on Halloween?
Twick or tweet.
Fonte: holidays.kaboose.com/halloween-games-jokes
domingo, 30 de outubro de 2011
segunda-feira, 24 de outubro de 2011
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN – 31st of October
HALLOWEEN is an ancient pagan festival. People used to believe that it was the night that witches flew and that horrible beasts and monsters walked around. Lanterns would be lit all night to keep evil spirits away. Good spirits were kept happy with food and warmth.
Halloween used to be known as the “Festival of the Dead”. Christians changed the name to Halloween, meaning “All Hallows´ Eve”. It comes just before “All Saints´ Day” (1st November) and “All Souls´ Day” (2nd November). This period marks the beginning of winter.
The pagan roots to the festival are reflected in the images of Halloween seen today: witches, skeletons, ghosts, and lanterns. Halloween night is a night for mischief, which became “trick-or-treating” in the USA – many of the traditions now associated with Halloween are American in origin.
Trick-or-treating is perhaps the most well-known of the present day rituals associated with Halloween and is now common in the UK as well as the US. Children dress up as witches and ghosts and carry lanterns made out of pumpkins with a ghoul´s face cut into it. They knock on their neighbors´ doors and ask for a treat (usually sweets or biscuits) or threaten to trick their neighbors if no treat is given. A classic trick is to smear a door handle with butter. Needless to say, the practice of trick-or-treating is not universally popular.
There are also Halloween parties. Apples have long been associated with Halloween, probably because of the time of year that the festival is celebrated, and many apple games are played at Halloween parties.
HALLOWEEN is an ancient pagan festival. People used to believe that it was the night that witches flew and that horrible beasts and monsters walked around. Lanterns would be lit all night to keep evil spirits away. Good spirits were kept happy with food and warmth.
Halloween used to be known as the “Festival of the Dead”. Christians changed the name to Halloween, meaning “All Hallows´ Eve”. It comes just before “All Saints´ Day” (1st November) and “All Souls´ Day” (2nd November). This period marks the beginning of winter.
The pagan roots to the festival are reflected in the images of Halloween seen today: witches, skeletons, ghosts, and lanterns. Halloween night is a night for mischief, which became “trick-or-treating” in the USA – many of the traditions now associated with Halloween are American in origin.
Trick-or-treating is perhaps the most well-known of the present day rituals associated with Halloween and is now common in the UK as well as the US. Children dress up as witches and ghosts and carry lanterns made out of pumpkins with a ghoul´s face cut into it. They knock on their neighbors´ doors and ask for a treat (usually sweets or biscuits) or threaten to trick their neighbors if no treat is given. A classic trick is to smear a door handle with butter. Needless to say, the practice of trick-or-treating is not universally popular.
There are also Halloween parties. Apples have long been associated with Halloween, probably because of the time of year that the festival is celebrated, and many apple games are played at Halloween parties.
segunda-feira, 3 de outubro de 2011
TAKE THAT
Basically, to take means to obtain; sometimes it´s as easy as picking up a biscuit from a plate. Other times it involves violence: a mugger takes an old woman´s handbag and escapes. That´s a shocking experience which is very difficult to take in (or understand); everyone is taken by surprise (or shocked) by the situation.
TIME OUT
Here are some more examples. If you see an unusual bird, you do a double take – you see the bird the first time, look away in disbelief, and then look again to check.
Someone says, “take five”. What does that mean? Well, it´s the same as “let´s take a break,” or let´s have a five-minute rest. Perhaps you need a real break, so take off a few days from work (go on holiday), and fly to somewhere exotic. If you book last minute, the agent takes off 30 per cent – that´s a big discount. In no time at all, you take your seat on a place, the plane takes off, and you´re flying high above the clouds. So take off your jacket, sit back and take it easy, just relax.
ON LOCATION
On holiday you take photographs with your camera. When a movie director makes a film, he often asks his actors to repeat a scene – each attempt is called a take, so you have take 1, take 1, and so on. One fight scene in Jackie Chan´s The Young Master was so difficult to perform, the actors needed 329 takes.
Take can also men “need” or “involve”. “It takes two to make a dream come true,” sang Marvin Gaye. He was absolutely right because the song was a duet, and he needed partner Kim Weston to sing with him. Barbra Streisand didn´t agree: “It takes a woman … to bring the sweet things in live.”
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TIME OUT
Here are some more examples. If you see an unusual bird, you do a double take – you see the bird the first time, look away in disbelief, and then look again to check.
Someone says, “take five”. What does that mean? Well, it´s the same as “let´s take a break,” or let´s have a five-minute rest. Perhaps you need a real break, so take off a few days from work (go on holiday), and fly to somewhere exotic. If you book last minute, the agent takes off 30 per cent – that´s a big discount. In no time at all, you take your seat on a place, the plane takes off, and you´re flying high above the clouds. So take off your jacket, sit back and take it easy, just relax.
ON LOCATION
On holiday you take photographs with your camera. When a movie director makes a film, he often asks his actors to repeat a scene – each attempt is called a take, so you have take 1, take 1, and so on. One fight scene in Jackie Chan´s The Young Master was so difficult to perform, the actors needed 329 takes.
Take can also men “need” or “involve”. “It takes two to make a dream come true,” sang Marvin Gaye. He was absolutely right because the song was a duet, and he needed partner Kim Weston to sing with him. Barbra Streisand didn´t agree: “It takes a woman … to bring the sweet things in live.”
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