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Ghost Stories 6

Reading and Vocabulary

A. Discuss with a partner.
1. Are there any stories of haunted houses where you live?
2. If a friend suggested going into an old house where nobody lived, would you go in? Why/Why not?
3. Do you believe houses can be haunted? Why/Why not?

B. Complete the sentences with an appropriate word.

1. In my town, there are lots of abandoned .
2. There’s a creepy in my school who doesn’t have any friends.
3. We heard a dreadful , as if someone was in pain.
4. There was an eerie coming from an upstairs window.
5. The was a little gloomy, so we turned on the lights.
6. I felt an unearthly , as though someone was standing behind me.
7. There was a weird – almost like something was burning.
8. He was a wicked and murdered all his family.

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