GE|Pre-Int||10. The Canterville Ghost

Warm-up

Match the words and the definitions

Canterville Chase

Read the advertisement. Say if you would like to live in the house or not

Canterville Chase is a very large, old house in the country. There are many rooms, including a library. There’s a big garden. The house comes with one terrifying ghost.

Describe the house

Useful phrases

— The Chase was…
— There was/ were…

The characters

Match the values

Guess the character

1. He thinks the ghost is funny. He removes the bloodstain from the library every morning.
2. He’s not frightened by the ghost. He doesn’t believe in ghosts.
3. She is very frightened by the ghost and faints every time she sees him.
4. She doesn’t like the bloodstain in the library and asks the servant to remove it.

Who said that?

Match the phrase and the character

Virginia’s letter

Put the verbs into the correct forms

Write a letter from Washington Otis

1. Does he like England?
2. What does he think about the castle?
3. What did he do when he saw the bloodstain?
4. How does he treat the ghost?

Useful language

— to move
— to be afraid of
— to scare
— to laugh
— to remove
— to play tricks on
— to feel sorry
— bloodstain
— haunted
— stupid

Dear Michael,
Three weeks ago my family moved to England.

The ghost

The ghost wrote what the Otises did to him. Correct the facts

Speak about the ghost and his story

1. How did Sir Simon treat his wife?
2. What did his wife’s brothers do to him?
3. How did he try to terrify the American family?
4. How did he feel when he couldn’t scare the family?
5. What did he ask Virginia to do?

Prepare and retell

Put the sentences in the correct order

Retell the story and say how you felt when you read it. Explain why

Now you can

Now you can:

1. Retell the story in English.
2. Use past tenses for retelling.

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