How to Celebrate Halloween Advanced American English Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm happy halloween as you may
know Halloween is a holiday where you
get to dress up in funny or scary
costumes you get to eat lots of candy
maybe you get to go to a Halloween party
or go trick-or-treating and today i want
to share halloween preparation with you
in the u.s. it’s a really big deal to
buy lots of pumpkins and pumpkin
flavored things and to decorate your
yard and to make it look exciting
prepare for the holiday so i want to
show you some of the stores near my
house and i want to show you my
neighborhood there’s some fun
decorations i’m gonna explain it and
hopefully you’ll learn some exciting
words and just see a little view of
American life and American culture are
you ready let’s get started
here we are at one of the grocery stores
that’s by my house it’s called Trader
Joe’s and you can see there are a lot of
pumpkins this is the outdoor area so
they expect that people will pick up the
pumpkins and take them inside to pay for
them you can get cute little pumpkins
some gourds some pumpkins for pumpkin
pies these are fairy tale pumpkins and
they even used an interesting word
pumped for pumpkins pumped means excited
we’re excited for pumpkins and they’re
trying to use a clever way to get people
to buy them here are some other kinds of
holiday foods gourds more pumpkins more
gourds some squash there are a lot of
different varieties of this as you can
see but in the fall season we don’t just
eat fruits and vegetables we eat tons of
pumpkin things here our pumpkin spiced
cakes pumpkin pies the store has so many
different varieties pumpkin muffins
pumpkins chai spice loaf anything made
with pumpkin is really in season
this time of the year you can get
pumpkin cereal Wow
I really can’t imagine what they didn’t
make with pumpkin there are pumpkin
pancake waffles
pumpkin scones this year I think we’re
gonna make these pumpkin scones pumpkin
bread and muffins do you think they went
a little bit crazy with pumpkin things
pumpkin pie mix Wow there’s a ton of
stuff and this is the craziest pumpkin
spiced pumpkin seeds they flavored the
pumpkin seeds to taste like pumpkin it
kind of feels a little bit over the top
to me pumpkin seeds are great we don’t
need them to be flavored same with
tortilla chips these are pumpkin
flavored tortilla chips sometimes they
like to make absolutely everything
pumpkin flavored if you haven’t
understood that yet even pumpkin beer
pumpkin ale and here they’re using the
word pumpkin this is a kind of slang or
casual way to pronounce the word pumpkin
here is a huge tower of pumpkin bread
and pumpkin butter so you can make this
pumpkin bread and then put the pumpkin
butter on your pumpkin bread and muffins
pumpkin craze here’s some decoration
kits you can decorate your pumpkins you
can put a strobe light inside of your
pumpkin that’s pretty cool you could
even buy a Halloween card now personally
I’ve never gotten a Halloween card I’ve
never bought a Halloween card but these
ones look pretty cool there’s spider
webs cats and witches and ghosts a
little bit more on the the scary side
than the fun side plenty of stuff that
you could use to celebrate Halloween
here we’re gonna take a walk in my
neighborhood this house is pretty
typical they just have some pumpkins at
the top you can see like agree
which floaties and some ghosts and
spiders here this house went really
simple with their decorations they made
a spiderweb in their front porch I think
it’s pretty cool and on the other hand
these people went a little bit more
extreme there are lots of spiderwebs
there’s a cemetery some skeletons I
think they really like Halloween and
these people have some skeleton
flamingos some pumpkins and they also
have a mini graveyard this is pretty
common for front yard decorations you
can see a kind of common theme here also
this family for their graveyard that
they made they decided to make it
current
so some famous people who died this year
for example David Bowie he has a grave
in their graveyard because they were
really sad about David Bowie you can see
also Willy Wonka and what so what do
people do with those pumpkins
well they carve them and that’s what Dan
and I did we got two small pumpkins and
we just used a knife and decided to make
funny faces in them and then we put a
candle inside so that they light up at
night we don’t have a front porch
because we live in an apartment but we
put them in our house and it’s just good
entertainment for ourselves thanks so
much for joining me for this Halloween
tour I want to know in your country do
you celebrate Halloween or do you have a
similar holiday where you get to dress
up and just have fun maybe eat lots of
candy let me know in the comments below
and I’ll see you the next time bye the
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