S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS A FREE RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS! HALLOWEEN–EXTRA Level 1 This level is suitable for students who have been learning English for at least a year and up to two years. It corresponds with the Common European Framework level A1. Suitable for users of CLICK magazine. SYNOPSIS Sunnydale is a small town in California. The action centres It’s Halloween. Buffy and friends hire costumes and take around the High School. Buffy and her friends are students and children out trick-or-treating (see Fact File 2). Everyone’s having Rupert Giles, Buffy’s Watcher or guide, is the librarian. Buffy, the fun. But there’s someone new in Sunnydale who wants to spoil Chosen One, has been sent to Sunnydale because the entrance their fun. His name is Ethan, he’s opened a Costume Shop and to Hell – the Hellmouth – is in the basement of the school. he has evil plans. Ethan casts a spell (he’s actually a sorcerer). The show combines comedy, tragedy, martial arts, romance Whatever costume people hired from him, that’s what they turn and horror. The stories also deal with teenage issues of love, into. Vampire-slaying Buffy loses her powers and becomes a self-esteem and planning a future, and use the fights with cowardly noblewoman from 1775. Willow becomes a ghost and supernatural forces as metaphors for emotional anxieties. Xander turns into a real-life soldier. The vampires are delighted. Halloween is Episode 6 from Series 2, so it’s quite near the Buffy and friends find themselves imprisoned in an old beginning. Buffy and her friends are still at high school. The plot warehouse by Spike with a band of children who have turned hinges on Buffy’s developing relationship with Angel and her into vampires. Willow meanwhile is working with Giles to undo uncertainties and anxieties about him. It explores how we the spell. Just as Spike is about to bite Buffy and turn her into sometimes try to be something we are not, in order to please a vampire, Ethan’s spell is broken by Giles, Buffy’s powers return another person. When Buffy tries this, it causes a lot of trouble. and Spike pays the price. MEDIA LINKS THE BACK STORY DVD: All the Buffy TV episodes are available on DVD/video. With 144 episodes in 7 series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a TV CD: A recording of Halloween is available to accompany the cult classic. Episode 1 was shown in March 1997 and the last Scholastic ELT reader. episode in May 2003. Constantly shown on TV around the Internet: Good starting points are www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy world, Buffy has fans and fan clubs everywhere. and the official website www.buffy.com. The show takes the old idea of a strong adult man saving a Books: The Watcher’s Guide Volumes 1-3, the official companions feeble woman and reverses it. Here a teenage girl is the only to the TV series, published by Pocket Books, are full of quotes, one with the power to save the world. In each episode, Buffy interviews, background information, episode guides and photos. and her teenage friends (and Giles, of course) have to deal with terrifying enemies, including vampires, ghosts and demons. HOW TO USE YOUR SCHOLASTIC ELT MEDIA READER Choosing and motivating Glossary Is this the right story for your class? Do they watch Buffy the Go to New Words! at the back of the reader. Translate the words Vampire Slayer? Get your class to want to read Halloween. with the class or get students to find meanings as homework. Motivate them with background information and by reading Casual language aloud the first page of the story with dramatic atmosphere. Introduce the informal expressions used in Halloween (see Organising Vocabulary Builder on page 3 of this resource). Plan a class reading schedule. Decide how many pages to set for reading each week. Select exercises from the back of the Fact Files reader and extra activities from this resource sheet to go with Set these as self-study or use for whole class work. The files dig each chunk of reading. (All answers on page 4.) into the Buffy series, find out about the programme’s star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays Buffy, and explore what Halloween is. Using the DVD Project ideas are on page 4 of this resource sheet. Try to get the English language DVD of Halloween. Watch it yourself first to check that it is suitable for your class. Show it in What did they think? chunks of, say, 5 minutes in parallel with the reading schedule, Get everyone to do a review of Halloween. Will they read more pausing at the end of a scene. Alternatively, show the whole Buffy stories? Will they watch Buffy on TV or DVD? Did you like programme after students have finished the book, as a reward. it? Let us know at: [email protected]. Using the CD Students can listen and follow in their books. They can listen COMPETITIONS AND UPDATES and then read. They can read and then listen. All these options Check [email protected] for competitions and other will enhance their understanding and speed up their reading. activities related to the Scholastic Buffy readers. ©Scholastic Ltd Teacher’s notes S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS RESOURCE SHEET STUDENT ACTIVITIES 2 Buffy tells Giles about a ‘cool place … with … pictures on the wall’ on page 12. What is she talking about? ……………………… Write about a theatre, restaurant, club or sports centre in the same way. Read it to a partner. Your partner guesses what the HALLOWEEN place is. 3Willow thinks the woman in the picture is unlucky. Buffy –EXTRA thinks she’s lucky. Why do they think this? Write sentences. 4 Put the words in the right spaces. bad old new strange strong weak People and places a) Spike and Drusilla live in a ……………………bad part of town in an 1 These sentences have the wrong names in them. Put the right …………………… building. names in. b) Spike hates Buffy because she is …………………… . a) Giles is a vampire. …………………Spike c) Drusilla is …………………… because she needs more blood. b) Xander is 241 years old. ………………… d) Drusilla can see …………………… pictures in her head. c) Ethan likes clothes and parties. ………………… e) She sees a …………………… person in Sunnydale. d) Willow likes Angel. ………………… e) Sunnydale teenagers go to Ethan’s Costume Shop in the evenings. ………………… Chapter 3: The fun starts f) Drusilla and Buffy are friends. ………………… 1Work with a partner. Buffy is a woman from 1775. Willow is first a Man Slayer, and then a ghost. Xander is a soldier. Why do they choose these costumes, do you think? Talk about your ideas. Chapter 1: A bad day at work Choose Halloween costumes for you and your partner. 1 Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false ones. Write 2 Answer these questions. them in an exercise book. a) Who are the five little people with green faces and black teeth? a) Angel feels happy in Buffy’s world. …………F …………………………………………………………………Children in costumes. b) Buffy slays a vampire on the way to the Bronze. ………… b) Does Principal Snyder like Buffy? How do you know? c) Cordelia doesn’t like Angel. ………… ………………………………………………………………… d) Cordelia thinks Buffy’s hair looks good. ………… c) Yesterday, Buffy didn’t want to take the children. What does she e) Cordelia is always thinking about her hair and clothes. ………… think now? f) Buffy, Xander and Willow want to go trick-or-treating ………………………………………………………………… with the Sunnydale children. ………… d) Who makes Buffy suddenly feel cold? g) There’s something wrong with Buffy’s hands and she can’t write. ………… ………………………………………………………………… e) Who is Willow now? 2Work with a partner. ………………………………………………………………… One of you is Principal Snyder: tell Willow/Xander to go trick-or- treating with the Sunnydale children tomorrow. f) Who is Xander now? The other is Willow or Xander: you don’t want to go. Make an ………………………………………………………………… excuse. g) What does Buffy usually do when she sees a vampire and a big monster? Chapter 2: A long, red dress ………………………………………………………………… 1Who … h) What does she do this time? a) writes the Watcher Diaries? ………………………Giles ………………………………………………………………… b) doesn’t have any fun hobbies? ……………………… c) takes the diaries from Giles’s desk? ……………………… d) lived in 1775? ……………………… e) thinks that Angel is not a vampire? ……………………… ©Scholastic Ltd Photocopiable S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS RESOURCE SHEET STUDENT ACTIVITIES Chapter 4: Who’s Buffy? VOCABULARY BUILDER 1 Choose the best word(s). Vampire words a) Only Willow / Xander knows Buffy. 1 There’s a wrong word in each of these sentences. Find the b) When a monster kicks Buffy, she kicks back / screams. right word in the New Words! at the back of Halloween. c) Xander pulls a green monster / Cordelia into Buffy’s house. a) Buffy slays vampires with a pizza. d) When Buffy and Angel go into the kitchen, there is a vampire in b) A vampire’s favourite drink is coffee. there / Catwoman is in there. c) Vampires drink blood from your feet. e) Buffy is frightened of Angel / the other vampire because of his vampire face. d) I don’t believe in vampires or doctors. e) Vampires are friendly. 2 Giles says, ‘At six o’clock, everyone changed.’ Did everyone change? Why do Giles and Willow run to Ethan’s? Talk to other 2 Put these verbs in the correct form in the spaces. students. scream kick hit grab Chapter 5: ‘I’m home’ The monster a) ……………… the soldier. The soldier quickly tried 1 Put these events in order. to b) ……………… the monster. Then he c) ……………… him a) Buffy kicks Spike.