SW looks at Halloween haunts
By Itsarin Tisantia
Photos courtesy of AP,
EPA, AFP and Bangkok Post
Here comes Halloween! On October 31, people around the globe will throw costume parties, carve pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns and take part in festivals to celebrate Halloween.
For Freeze Frame this week, SW looks at some of the many different Halloween celebrations that have taken place around the world over the past few years.
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The Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum in Chon Buri held Haunted Adventure to celebrate Halloween in 2008. |
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In Rust, southern Germany, a 7-year-old girl in 2005 poses as a Halloween witch with one of the biggest pumpkins ever measured in Europe, weighing more than 400 kilogrammes. |
The Moto Halloween festival in Cali, Colombia, was packed with motorcycle riders wearing Halloween costumes in 2010. |
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Around 3,000 people wearing Halloween costumes take part in the 15th Halloween Parade in Tokyo, Japan in 2011. |
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Many Thais and foreigners gather on Bangkok’s Khao San Road to celebrate Halloween in 2006. |
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Contestants in the 2003 underwater pumpkin carving contest, staged in Florida, USA, show their jack-o’-lanterns carved underwater. |
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A Japanese girl displays her dressed-up dog at an annual Halloween contest in Kawasaki, Japan, in 2007. Around 30 owners showed off their dogs and cats wearing fancy costumes. |
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Theatre actors perform a Halloween show at Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2007. |
Exercises
Read though Freeze Frame. Then, decide whether the following statements are true or false.
1. The Rockefeller Center is located in Tokyo, Japan.
2. Motorcycle riders wearing Halloween costumes participated in the Moto Halloween festival in Cali, Colombia.
3. Halloween is celebrated on October 30 every year.
4. People in Kawasaki dress up their cats and dogs for Halloween.
Vocabulary
- carve (v): to make objects, patterns, etc. by cutting away material from wood, stone, etc.
jack-o’-lantern (n): a pumpkin with a face cut into it and a candle put inside to shine through the holes
Idiom
take place: to happen, especially after being arranged or planned
