Halloween Party @ HELLO Village (Part I)

　10月28日（水）放課後，英語村でハロウィンパーティーが開催され，様々な（架空の）人物・動物などに扮した生徒が英語村に集合しました！まずパーティの前半は，ALTのJordanさんによるハロウィンの起源や歴史についての説明があり，そのあと生徒たちはグループに分かれて，ハロウィンに関連した次の5つのブースを1つずつ回りました：（１）フランケンシュタインといったモンスターがどこの国に起源をもつのかを答える「Monster Match」，（２）碁盤の目のように並んだ文字からハロウィンに関連した言葉を探し出す「Halloween Word Search」，（３）ミステリーを聞いた後，その物語についての質問に答える「Story Telling」，（４）提示された幻想的な風景に生息していそうなモンスターを創造する「Into the Woods」，（５）ハロウィンに関連した言葉をジェスチャーで表現して，他のチームメンバーに当ててもらう「Gesture Game」。生徒たちは，ALTたちと英語で会話しながら，１つ１つのブースを楽しんでいました。

　Halloween Party was held at HELLO Village after school on October 28th. Students enjoyed wearing their favorite costumes and disguised as someone or something else. At the beginning, our ALT Jordan (whose costume was Ken in a video game ‘Street Fighter’) gave a talk about the beginning and the history of Halloween. The audiences were imaginary entities such as Tinker Bell and famous figures such as a Major Leaguer, Shohei Ootani (or dressed-up students).
　After the talk, students were asked to become detectives and solve an imaginary murder case at HELLO Village by participating the following five activities: (1) Monster Match (Finding the original countries of various monsters), (2) ‘Word Search’ (finding Halloween-related words from letters arranged in a grid-like way), (3) ‘Story Telling’ (Listening to a mystery and answering the questions of the story), (4) ‘Into the Woods’ (creating monsters that might live in given imaginary pictures), (5) ‘Gesture Game’ (Helping other team members answer questions by gesturing Halloween-related topics). The students talked with ALTs in English and enjoyed each booth very much.