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READING & TRAINING K E Y T O T H E A C T I V I T I E S

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Rudyard Kipling Page 27 – activity 2 Page 36 – activity 4
Nathaniel Hawthorne Open answers. 1F 2D 3C 4A 5B
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Stories of Ghosts and Mystery 1B 2A 3B 4B 5B 6B 7B 8A

9 B 10 A 11 B 12 A
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Open answers.

England and Its Ghosts

1 asked my Dad to take me to school. Page 41 – activity 1
KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES AND EXIT TEST 2 My friend needed me to help her 1 They sometimes use special
with her homework. equipment.
3 Angela wanted her boyfriend to 2 Because their death was violent or
buy her something nice in Paris.
Dickon the Devil PART TWO
Page 16 – activity 1 4 Maura would like Michael to turn
terrible and they cannot rest in
peace.
on the light. 3 He fired his gun at him.
PART ONE Open answers.
5 My mother ordered me to clean
Page 6 – activity 1 4 In Scotland.
Page 16 – activity 2 my room.
5 It was built in 1078. Because many
1E 2A 3B 4C 5D 6F 1B 2B 3B 4A 5B 6A Page 35 – activity 3 people believe it’s haunted by
Page 6 – activity 2 Page 23 – activity 1 Script: Imagine you are going to tell a royal ghosts.
Open answer. ghost story to a group of people. First, 6 She was King Henry VIII’s second
1D 2C 3B 4D 5A 6B
you need to find the right place and wife.
Page 11 – activity 1 Page 24 – activity 2 time to tell your story. A dark room in 7 Because it has more ghosts than
1C 2B 3D 4B 5A A Open answers. an old house would be perfect, any other village in England.
B Script: It was a dark night. I walked especially if you tell your listeners that
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slowly down the hallway in the old the house is haunted. Be sure that you
Open answers.
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house towards the door. Suddenly I
heard a noise. It sounded like
tell your story late at night. Turn off
the lights and put candles around the
The Return of Imray
footsteps. I felt afraid. I began to room. If you want your listeners to be PART ONE
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run. Then, I fell down, and it was really scared, try playing a CD of scary
sound effects, like screams and Page 44 – activity 1
Page 13 – activity 4 too late.
1 dark 2 hallway 3 house 4 door footsteps. Speak very softly and Open answer.
Georgian fashion, a Victorian house,
Elizabethan fashion, a Georgian 5 footsteps 6 afraid 7 run 8 I fell quietly at first, so that everyone must
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house, Victorian fashion down 9 too late move closer to hear you. Then make
your voice louder and louder near the 1A 2C 3B 4C 5A
Page 14 – activity 5 Page 25 – activity 3 end of the story. For an unforgettable Page 51 – activity 1
1D 2D 3A 4B 5D 6C 7D 8C Open answers. ending, ask a friend to grab someone
1A 2D 3C 4B 5D
9 B 10 A suddenly at the end of the story. This
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will make that person scream, and Page 52 – activity 2
Page 15 – activity 6 Open answers. maybe everyone else will scream as Open answers.
Open answers. Page 27 – activity 1 well. But remember: never tell a really
frightening ghost story to anyone Page 52 – activity 3
Page 15 – activity 7 3 and 5 will happen.
younger than 10 years old – even if Open answers.
Open answers. it’s your younger brother or sister.
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1A 2D 3C 4B 5A 6D 7B 8A
The Minister’s Black Veil Open answers. 1B 2C 3A 4C 5A
9 C 10 D PART ONE 1M 2R 3D 4R 5M
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Page 54 – activity 5 Page 70 – activity 1 Open answers. Page 100 – activity 3
Open answers. Open answers. 1 after he finishes school
Page 54 – activity 6 Page 70 – activity 2 2 when I listen to music
PART TWO 3 before I got this terrible haircut
Open answers. 1C 2A 3E 4D 5F 6B Page 81 – activity 1 4 while he was driving
Page 77 – activity 1 Open answers. 5 When Valerie quits her job
PART TWO 1B 2D 3D 4C 5A 6B Page 82 – activity 2 Page 101 – activity 4
Page 55 – activity 1 Page 78 – activity 2 Open answers. Open answers.
Open answers. Script: Dear Diary, Page 102 – activity 5
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Page 55 – activity 2 It was a beautiful Sunday morning. Open answers.
The sun was shining brightly. Mrs 1A 2B 3B 4A 5B 6A 7B 8B
Open answers. Hamilton was walking towards the Page 87 – activity 2
Page 63 – activity 1 church with her two little boys, New England
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1B 2A 3B 4A 5B 6B 7A 8A
carrying her baby in her arms. Both and the Puritans
the little ones brought flowers for the Page 89 – activity 3
9 A 10 B Page 107 – activity 1
church. A little girl was picking the Open answers.
Page 63 – activity 2 little yellow flowers in front of the 1A 2A 3A 4A 5B 6A 7B 8A
1 is warm church, while her grandmother held Page 89 – activity 4 9 B 10 B 11 A 12 A
2 said anything the basket of flowers for her. Her Open answers.
3 sleeping (asleep) mother stood close by with the baby. I
noticed there were a couple of dogs by Page 89 – activity 5
4 hanged for (hanged because of) After reading
5 dead the edge of the crowd. One of them Open answers.
was running around and barking. I Page 110 – activity 3
Page 64 – activity 3 think they belonged to the three PART THREE
1A 2F 3H 4A 5I 6D 7C 8E
Strickland: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Saunders Boys. Page 91 – activity 1
9 B 10 G 11 A 12 J
The narrator: 1, 3, 9, 10 The sexton arrived, with the big Open answers.
church door key in his hand. I asked if Page 111 – activity 4
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he brought his prayer book today, and 1B 2C 3A 4G 5E 6F 7I 8H
Open answers. he said it was in the church where he 1B 2B 3A 4B 5B 6A 7A 8B 9 K 10 J
Page 65 – activity 5 left it last week. He unlocked the door,
went inside and started ringing the Page 97 – activity 1
Open answers. church bell. And then something 1B 2C 3D 4A 5A
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Open answers. 1C 2B 3A 4A 5C
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Activity 1 Activity 1
Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones. 1 F – He went to see a property that two sisters inherited.
T F 2 F – He was called ‘the devil’ because ‘devil’ was the only word he said.
1 The narrator of the story inherited a property 3 T
and went to see it. 4 F – They were worried and tried to find out where he was.
5 T
2 Dickon was called ‘the devil’ because he was a wicked man. 6 T
3 Old Squire Bowes used to be a good man when he was alive. 7 F – The reason why he decided to wear the veil was unknown.
8 F – The congregation wanted to know the reason why he wore the veil.
4 Imray’s friends were not worried when he disappeared.
9 F – He was put in the coffin and buried with the black veil.
5 Imray was killed by a servant because of a superstition.
Activity 2
6 Bahadur Khan killed himself because he didn’t want
1 S 2 E 3 T 4 B 5 D 6 H 7 W 8 E 9 T 10 B
to be hanged.
7 Reverend Hooper decided to wear a veil because he had
committed a crime.
8 A congregation went to Reverend Hooper’s house in order
to convince him to take off the veil.
9 When Reverend Hooper died, people could see his face again.

Activity 2
Read the sentences and match them with the name of the right character from
the list.
Elizabeth (E) Strickland (S) Tom Wyndsour (W) Squire Bowes (B)
Tietjens (T) Reverend Hooper (H) Dickon (D)
This character…
1 ….. was a policeman.
2 ….. loved a man but could not live with him.
3 ….. felt that there was a mysterious presence in Imray’s house.
4 ….. walked among the trees in the evening with a stick in his hand.
5 ….. was taken away by a ghost while he was sleeping.
6 ….. was a rather sad, gloomy man of about thirty.
7 ….. looked after the property of Barwycke Hall.
8 ….. was not afraid of the Reverend’s black veil.
9 ….. did not want to sleep in the house.
10 ….. had a strange hand, with a shorter finger.

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