The 61st Xizi  English Salon Agenda

Venue: 惠州市西枝江桥南麦地路升辉苑A栋3楼1号格灵威自然美语培训中心（从侧边的楼梯上三楼）

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衷心感谢格灵威自然美语为西子英语沙龙提供免费的场地！在此代表广大英语爱好者对该机构所作的公益举动表示诚挚的感谢和敬意！本期英语沙龙也特邀格灵威的中教Rebecca和外教Linda & Mark 共同主持。

提示：本活动仅接受中级和中级以上英语水平者报名参加。 欲参加的会员请提前报名，以便召集人准备资料。期待你的参与……

Hostess: Rebecca      Guest Hosts: Linda and Mark(From UK)
Date:25th Oct. 2008
Time:19:30--21:30
Entrance fee: 5 RMB

Topic for English Corner on 25th OCT…..CREEPY HOLLOWEEN

Are you ready to get creepy? There are many mysteries remain undiscovered around the world . UFO, GHOST, ALIEN…….and how many of you actually believe in them?

There is a Chinese saying “Seeing is believing”，and on the 25th of this month. please feel free to join our English corner to discuss these scary mysteries. Let’s join the discussion of the western ghost festival—Halloween!
It will be very entertaining. We are Looking forward to seeing you all here.

THE AGENDA

Part 1-Self Introduction 19:30－19:50
Introduction: Everybody will have a chance to introduce themselves, please let us know more about you. Remember to control your time. Everyone will have up to 2 minutes.

Part 2-Holloween Introduction and discussion 19:50-20:30
We will invite the married couple Linda and Mark to tell us more about Halloween customs, the meaning of this special festival and the origin of this festival.

Also we will have a group discussion regarding the topic. Furthermore we would share some of your own experiences of encountering some mysterious events.

Part 3 Debate. 20:30-21:00

Should we stick with science? Should we go against all odd things? Or should we be aware what will happen in the dark? 　  

     

About Halloween:

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

Also called        All Hallows Eve
All Saints' Eve
Samhain
Hallowed End
Observed by        Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Japan, Bahamas, United States, sometimes Australia,Sweden, and many Latin American countries where it is known as Noche de las Brujas (Night of the Witches)[2]

Type        Religious, cultural (celebrated mostly irrespective of religion)
Significance        There are many sources of Halloween's significance
Date        October 31
Celebrations        Trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bobbing for apples, costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, and fireworks (in Ireland)


Part 4 --Free talk time 9:00—9:30pm
All the comers can talk with Linda and Mark in a free way, We don't need to be limited by a certain topic. The aim is to express yourself in English in a most spontaneous way.



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本期西子英语沙龙特邀格灵威的中教Rebecca和外教Linda & Mark 共同主持。

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