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You have seen this announcement in an English-language magazine.

We are looking for stories for our magazine.Your story must BEGIN with this sentence:

When Amy opened the door of the haunted house,she was astonished by what she saw

YOUR STORY MUST INCLUDE:

 A GHOST
 A MYSTERY

TIPS

 Begin with this sentence


 Character-Amy
 Use past tense,past perfect tense (….opened….was astonished…..saw)

REMEMBER

 Include all the points in the task


 Use some of the 5 senses in your description
 Include how your character feels
 Include what they say or think
 Use a variety of adjectives, adverds and verbs

EXAMPLE

 We can describe the ghost


 Share something mysterious about the house
 Events : heard voices from upstairs, entered a room , furniture moved, bedsheet flew
 To describe feelings : scared,terrified,shocked (hair stood on end)
 Description for senses
 See : Pale figure, ghastly apparition
 Hear : Loud laughter, piercing screams
 Smell : Foul smell of decaying animals, stench of rotting corpse
 Touch : Dusty furniture, wet floor
 Adjectives to describe ghost
 Ancestral
 Evil
 Horrid
 Eerie
 Ghastly
 Shadowy
 Expressions about fear
 I watched a horror movie yesterday.Some of the scenes and the sound effects were so
frightening that they send shivers down my spine.
 I can’t watch horror films.They give me goose bumps.
 The apparition made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
 I don’t like horror films because they scare the hell out of me.
 The ghost appeared and my stomach tightened up in knots.I could feel my face break
out in sweat and my heart trying to leap out of my chest.

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