Halloween ESL Slides for Beginners – What Is It? Colours & Numbers

Need a quick, no-prep Halloween lesson for beginner English learners? This slide deck by ELT-Tutor revises key early grammar through Halloween costumes and characters. Just open it and teach. It works for classroom, online and one-to-one lessons.

What's inside the 50+ slides

• "What is it?" picture quiz: 9 slides of spooky pictures (bats, witches, ghosts, dragons, jack-o'-lanterns and more) for fast vocabulary revision, with answers on click ("It's a bat.")
• "What colour is...?" slides: 8+9 colour questions, including the cat, dragon, ghost, witch and haunted house, with short answers (It's black. / It's a black cat.)
• Grammar "Mind!" reminder slides for a/an, short answers (The apple is red = It's red) and the pattern It's a/an + colour + noun
• "How many can you see?" slides: 8 counting slides that practise numbers and plural nouns (3 bats)
• Plural rules at a glance: a bat – two bats, a candy – five candies, a witch – three witches
• Closing Halloween rhyme slide for a fun finish

Language focus

Halloween vocabulary, What is it? / It's a..., a/an, colours, What colour is...?, How many...?, numbers and regular plural forms.

Available in .key, .pptx and .pdf format.

Why teachers love it

• No prep: open the file and teach
• Repeated question patterns give lots of speaking practice
• Works as a warm-up, a revision lesson or a full activity
• Clean, simple layout that's easy to follow on a screen or whiteboard
• Perfect for beginner and young learners

Download the slides and make your Halloween English lesson spooky, simple and fun! 🎃