Rouen, Halloween en langue anglaise

Bonjour à tous,

a Rouen, comme partout, les vacances de Toussaint approchent, avec la fête d'Halloween. 

 Issue d'une vieille tradition irlandaise, cette fête populaire pour enfants se déroule le 31 octobre. Tous les enfants connaissent la phrase magique, aussi pour le plaisir, ai-je demandé à notre professeur d'anglais, d'origine américaine, de partager avec vous ce petit texte vous expliquant ce qu'est Halloween, mais en langue anglaise. Un plaisir à grignoter comme une friandise... (Si vous voulez la version en langue française, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter...)

In the United States, Halloween takes place on October 31st every year. Although it is primarily a holiday for children, many people participate in giving out candy, and costume parties among adults are also quite common. Many people decorate their houses with spooky images of ghosts, witches, and jack-o-lanterns. Those who participate in the holiday, stock-up on candy and leave their front porch lights on as a signal to Trick-or-Treaters that they will be giving out candy that night.

After night falls, or just before, children under the age of 12 dress-up in all sorts of costumes, some scary, some just out-of-the-ordinary. They walk with their parents and friends from house to house, ring the doorbell and shout “trick-or-treat!” Then the person at the door normally gives each child a piece of candy. As you can imagine, over the night each child can accumulate quite a lot of candy that can sometimes last for months into the future.

Although Halloween originally comes from a pagan holiday concerning evil spirits, in modern day, it is primarily just an occasion for people to dress-up and have fun.