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Northern Ireland

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Sweden

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Tove

Sweden

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For all bilingual students and others that want to write!

Hello everyone! I am Tove, the language assistant from Sweden. I am thinking of that it is soon Halloween and that maybe some of you like to read and write stories! Here I have the perfect task for you.
Read the story and post a comment with your personal continuation. I want you to use your imagination and scare me!

A Spooky Story

It was a dark, rainy night in October. I had been to my friend Jane’s house and studied for a test. Now I was walking home. I didn’t like it at all. I had always been afraid of the dark, and on a night like this, I could easily imagine that all kinds of scary things were lurking in the darkness around me. I shivered, afraid of my own thoughts, and I hurried towards my home. To get there, I had to pass an ancient, abandoned castle lying on the top of the highest hill in our town. The castle was surrounded by a dark park with old oak trees. Their branches looked like long arms with bony fingers that stretched out to grab me. I tried to look straight forward, and ignore the uncanny darkness of the park, but as I passed the gate to the park I couldn’t help myself from glancing up towards the castle. There was a light in one of the windows. Somebody was up there. Nobody dared to go there. But now, someone actually was there. I stopped in front of the gate, unable to move my legs. There was a sound coming from the castle, a whining sound. It sounded almost like someone was strangling a cat! Even though I was so afraid that I felt like dying, I knew I had to go to the castle to see what was going on. So I took a trembling step forward, went through the gate and into the darkness...


What happened? Continue the story.

Useful words:

English - Spanish

lurk - merodear
ancient - antiguo
abandoned - abandonado
branch - rama
uncanny - extraño
glance - echar un vistazo
whining - lloriquear
shiver - temblar
path - sendero
curious - curioso
howl - aullar
frighten - asustar
attic - ático
curtain - cortina
stairway - escalera
skull - calavera
mist - niebla
spooky - espeluznante
rattle - repiquetear
ghost - fantasma
haunted - embrujado
chain - cadena
turn white - ponerse pálido
cemetery - cementerio
basement - sótano
chest - baúl
coffin - ataúd