MICHAEL JACKSON AND HIS "THRILLER": HALLOWEEN IS COMINGGGGGGG!!!!

Do you know who Michael Jackson was?

Can you name some of his songs?

Maybe one of his most famous song is "Thriller", a 13-minute music video that is ideal for Halloween.

Let's watch the first part of the video, and try to understand the dialogue on it.

Now, watch the complete video and do the following activities (orally):

1. Fill in the blanks with the missing words:

It's close to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  and something evil's lurking in the dark

Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your _ _ _ _ _

You _ _ _ to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it

You start to freeze as horror looks you _ _ _ _ _ between the eyes

You're paralyzed

2. Reorder the chorus!

____ 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

____ You're fighting for life inside a killer, thriller tonight

____ And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike

____ You know it's thriller, thriller night

3. Choose the right word:

You hear a door / floor slam and realize there's nowhere left to run

You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the fun / sun

You broke / close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination

But all the while you tear / hear the creature creepin' up behind

You're out of time / life

4. Add the missing words:

Darkness falls across __________
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search___________
To terrorize y'awl's neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the _______ for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's _______
The foulest stench is in the air
The _______of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your _________
And though you fight to stay alive
Your ________starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The _______of the thriller
Can you dig it?!

Now, let's sing the song all together! 

Do you want to dance???

HALLOWEEN: THE OTHERS (A FILM WITH COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS)

Let's watch the trailer of this famous terror film (By Alejandro Amenábar):

Now, answer the following questions about the trailer:

* What did the nanny mean when she said, "Sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living"? 

* What had happened to the servants at the beginning of the movie? 

• They'd quit.
• They'd vanished in thin air.
• They'd left on vacation.

* Who was the nanny referring to when she said, "I saw them, too?" 
•  the spirits/ghosts
•  the mice
•  the burglars
* What did the numbers stand for on the little girl's drawing of the family? 
•  the number of children
•  the age of the people
•  the number of times she had seen them
* Why were "the mother, father, Victor, and the old woman" staying at that house? 
•  They said it was their house.
•  It was on top of a cemetery.
•  It was big and scary.
* Early in the movie, the mother said to the nanny, "My children sometimes have strange ideas. You musn't pay any attention. Children will be children." What did she mean? 
* What did the nanny mean when she said, "Sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living." ?

THE FORTUNE WHEEL IS A FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING GAME. YOU ONLY HAVE TO CLICK ON IT AND START PLAYING. IT'S A PERFECT IDEA TO PRACTICE VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR OR FOR AN ORAL TEST, JUST LIKE THIS ONE I'VE CREATED FOR MY STUDENTS. If you click on "WHEEL DECIDE", you'll go to the web and there you can create your own wheels. I'd like to thank Cris Priper and El Blog de Cristina where I first learnt about this awesome tool.

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I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING

This man has something really important to tell you....

Let's watch it...

Now, give you opinion about you've understood. You can use the following sentences to start: