Here's a song that uses the vocabulary from our food units--E-coli, recall, food poisoning--all the scary things appropriate for Halloween. (I once went to a Halloween Party as spinach with E-coli.) This permits the students to write mean things online like "And she makes you sing with her." But they like this song in spite of themselves.
Words
by Tina Martin to the Percy Montrose tune “My Darling Clementine”
Halloween
is in October.
It’s
October thirty-one.
Children
go out trick-or-treating,
And
they have a lot of fun.
They
go walking door to door then,
They
wear costumes, they wear masks.
Everybody
gives them candy.
But
their mother one things asks:
If you see a suspicious stranger,
If you see a suspicious stranger,
Someone
lurking on the street,
Run
away fast; you’re in danger
If
he offers you a treat.
One
year children, trick or treating,
Meet
a man who looks that way.
But
he doesn’t do the greeting
Or
offer candy, so they say:
“Do
you want a little candy?
Do
you want a little juice?”
“Thanks a lot; I’m on a diet.”
“That’s
a very bad excuse.
“You’re
not fat, sir. You are thin, sir.
You
look like a skeleton.”
“That’s the way I am; accept it.
What’s been done can’t be undone.”
“We
are worried. You’re so thin, sir.
Really
need to gain some weight.
And
you really don’t look well, sir.”
“Maybe someone that I ate
Caused food poisoning,
Had E-coli.
But for me, it’s kind of late
For a re-call of E-coli.
I’m expired, beyond my date.”
“Pardon
us, sir. Are you new here?
What’s
your name? Where do you live?”
“My name is on a stone, RIP,
But my address I can’t give.”
“Pardon
us, sir. Please explain this.
Please,
sir, tell us what you mean.”
“My only address is a graveyard.
I come back each Halloween.
I must run now; you look suspicious.
And you offered me a treat;
My mom taught me when I was living
To run from strangers that I’d meet.”
And here's the cake Dmitry made for ESL 142 003 yesterday.
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