Telling Spooky Stories

A1 (Elementary) A2 (Pre-Intermediate) Vocabulary Kids Teens

Short Overview of the Lesson:

  • Get into the Halloween spirit by learning and using spooky vocabulary such as witch, haunted house, pumpkin, cemetery, and magic potion.

  • Predict what will happen in three unfinished spooky stories and read to check your ideas.

  • Practise reading comprehension through fun story-based tasks and questions.

  • Sort Halloween words into categories like creatures, objects, and places.

  • Solve Halloween riddles, unscramble words, and answer creative questions.

  • Use sentence starters to write your own scary story endings.

  • Work in pairs to ask and answer Halloween-themed questions using verbs and nouns.

  • Finish the lesson by creating and sharing your own spooky story using new vocabulary.

Why this lesson is useful:
This lesson builds students’ vocabulary and reading comprehension in a fun, thematic way. It encourages creativity and speaking practice through storytelling, making language learning engaging and imaginative.

October 15, 2025