In October, CP students at École Jacques-Prévert in Rœux learned how to present themselves. They practiced greeting one another and asking and answering the question, “What’s your name?”

After the Toussaint vacations, I gave a cultural lesson on the American traditions surrounding the holiday of Halloween. I explained that on this holiday American children wear costumes and visit their neighbors to ask for candy, using the phrase, “Trick or treat?”

I then had students play a game with me—their neighbor—to practice greetings and saying this new phrase. Students mimed knocking on my door. After we said hello to each other, students would ask me, “Trick or treat?” I offered the “trick-or-treaters” an American candy, Reese’s peanut butter cups (a chocolate with peanut butter inside), for attempting to say the whole phrase. Before leaving with their candies, students also had to practice saying “good-bye” to me.

The students greatly enjoyed getting a “taste” of this holiday widely celebrated by American children!