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Hello everybody, welcome to Luke's English podcast. It's actually November the 5th here and I'm just

going to tell you some things about Halloween in this podcast so I'll be talking about you

know Halloween and what people usually do at Halloween and some of the story behind the Halloween festival and exactly what it is.

I'll also be talking about November the 5th, which is also an important day in the calendar here in England we celebrate Guy Fawkes

night on November the 5th and there's an interesting story behind that as well so

I'll tell you about that too. Also in this podcast we're

going to listen to a bit of stand-up comedy and you're going to learn some

interesting expressions using the words up and the words down. So cultural

information, bit of entertainment and some genuine language learning opportunities for you. Isn't that fantastic? Yes it is ladies

and gentlemen. Yes it is. So Halloween. Now as you know probably Halloween falls on the 31st of October every year and it's a kind of traditional

festival which is celebrated in many different countries around the world. We celebrate it here but it's

not quite as important a day here in England as it is in America. In fact many British people think that Halloween really is

more of an American invention or an American festival. We tend to celebrate November the 5th. I'll talk about that a

bit later, but what's Halloween all about? Well we do do it here, we do celebrate

it, and let's see, well it's rather complicated because there's a bit of history to it.

Basically, before I go into the history, Halloween is a kind of generally something that children enjoy in Britain and it's

kind of a chance for kids to go out and sort of celebrate basically the end of summer and the beginning of winter.

But they do it by using bits of kind of horror imagery symbols that represent kind of scary things.

So you get lots of pumpkins with scary faces, spiders, skeletons, you know, demons, Dracula, that kind of thing. And kids have

little parties where they dress up in different costumes, a lot horrible costumes of

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