Pumpkins

We are one week away from Halloween and this got me thinking about pumpkins. In fact I was in Carrefour the other day and I saw lots of pumpkins, both natural and plastic! Pumpkins are often synonymous with the 31st of October when traditionally people in English speaking countries carve faces into their tough flesh and put a tealight inside them to make creepy looking Jack-o-lanterns. However, pumpkins and squashes can be used for other things too. In the States, pumpkin pie is a special dessert for Thanksgiving. Some people think this sounds strange because they see the pumpkin as a vegetable, although technically speaking it is in fact a fruit.

For more ideas about what to do with a pumpkin and how to do it, you should check out these videos on VideoJug. (If you want to see the transcript you will need to click on the 'text version' button under the video.) You can practise your listening and reading skills while learning how to do something new!