Writing skills. The Ghostly Inn

Match the words
Chat excitedly
Stay for the night
Almost immediately
Small inn
Old-fashioned clothes
Pay the bill
Gasp
Troubled
Puzzled
Passer-by
Police station
Отделение полиции
Прохожий
Небольшая гостиница
Переночевать
Задыхаться
Оживленно беседовать
Озадаченный
Встревоженный
Практически сразу
Оплатить счет
Старомодная одежда

Ex. 2 p. 50 Answer the questions:
What are the names of the main characters?
Who noticed a small inn by the side of the road?
What seemed strange to Danny, Mark and Tom when they entered the inn?
Did they pay much for hotel accommodation?
Did they manage to find the hotel for the second time?
What did Tom see at the photographs of the inn?
What did they find on the place where they thought the inn had been?
What did the friends realise after they had talked to a passer-by?
Danny, Mark, Tom
Mark
Old-fashioned clothes the people were wearing
The bill was extremely cheap
No, they didn’t
He saw only his friends and a small white creature behind them.
They found two ruined buildings
They realised that they had spent the night with the ghost of the past.

Writing a story
Ex. 3 p. 50 Read the story and put the events in the
order they appear.
Ex. 4 p. 51 Which paragraphs…
a. present events before the climax event?
b. contains the climax event?
c. sets the scene?
d. contains the main characters’ feelings?
Ex. 5 p. 51 - Time linkers
Keys:
1. C
2. H
3. F
4. K
5. D
6. L
7. J
8. E
9. A
10. G
11. B
Keys: a. – 1,2 / b. – 3 / c. – 1 / d. - 4
Keys: 1. as / almost / immediately
2. when / the next morning / then
3. a week later / as soon as / while
4. when / immediately

Ex. 7 p. 51 Match the verbs to the adverbs
Run
Sing
Rain
Shout
Drive
Angrily
Happily
Quickly
Heavily
Carefully
Ex. 8 p. 51 Replace the adjectives and adverbs in bold with:
Huge / fiercely / quickly / loud / terrifying
Blowing badly - blowing fiercely
Big house – huge house
Big noise – loud noise
Bad feeling – terrifying feeling
Running fast - running quickly

Write a story based on what you will hear
Write 80 - 100 words
Use past tenses, linking words, variety of adjectives and adverbs
Plan
Para 1 – Introduction
a) Who were the main characters?
b) Where were they?
c) What were they doing?
Para 2 - Main body
d) What happened?
e) What was the climax event?
Para 3 – Conclusion
f) What happened in the end?
g) How did the characters feel?
Ann and Tim / At home
Watching TV
Tim suggested….
Old castle / Interesting exhibit (экспонат)
Taking photos
Mysterious disappearance
Ann and Tim ran to the… They were ……
The old lady explained that….
You may use the following words:
Stormy afternoon, feeling bored, say excitedly, late afternoon, the only visitors, dark rooms full of exhibits, felt scared, a model of a man, old fashioned costume, digital camera, run quickly, reception desk, museum ghost, terrified.