Miquel2 de noviembre de 2013 10:19
Hello everyone, I’m Miquel and here’s my summary of the October 31st lesson of ConvB2.
On last Thursday class we began to talk about the origin and history of Halloween due from four different recaps.
The name of Halloween is a contraction of the expression “All Hallows Eve (or Evening)”, occurring to be the last day of the year in Celtic calendar and when the real world and the spirits world are supposed to be closer. Celtic tradition thinks that bad spirits would come to real world to steal all the harvest so druids get dressed in an evil appearance look to chase them away. Also, in Christian tradition, people used to dress aliketo not TO get hurt by bad spirits, and began the tradition of offering fruits and candies to children, being considered evil servants those who refused to do it. That has developed (on) IN the way that we actually know it as the “Trick or Treat”. Also, and Irish farmerS developed a candle-lighted empty pumpkin which folklore has name it as Jack O’Lantern.
Then, we talkED in a debate about the reasons may have Spanish citizens (on) FOR celebrating Halloween: if it’s considered a commercial day or if it’s just an excuse for people to do something funny and different.
On last Thursday class we began to talk about the origin and history of Halloween due from four different recaps.
The name of Halloween is a contraction of the expression “All Hallows Eve (or Evening)”, occurring to be the last day of the year in Celtic calendar and when the real world and the spirits world are supposed to be closer. Celtic tradition thinks that bad spirits would come to real world to steal all the harvest so druids get dressed in an evil appearance look to chase them away. Also, in Christian tradition, people used to dress alike
Then, we talkED in a debate about the reasons may have Spanish citizens (on) FOR celebrating Halloween: if it’s considered a commercial day or if it’s just an excuse for people to do something funny and different.
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For Tuesday, we will see and discuss the scene that we didn't see on Thursday and then talk about the 2 video clips about the NSA spying and "Big Brother type surveillance". SO we will do something more"fun" and something else more social or political!!
