Love to Death

Get ready

1

Read the question: "Why are gothic stories so fascinating?". Note the first adjective. Then, write down the letter of the images that make you think of this adjective.

2

Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

3

Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

1

Look at the picture and answer the following questions:

a) What is the characters’ relationship? 



b) What can you see in the background? 



c) What film genre is it?

2

Look at the poster and fill in the grid. Then, listen to the audio guide and check your answers.

3

Fill in the blanks to recap on the poster.

The film stars  as Count , as Harker and as  Harker. The atmosphere of the poster is very . We can see frightening  that look like , the three-headed dog. Nethertheless, it is a  film.

Let’s have fun

1

Listen to the recording. Which figure of speech can you spot?

Michael R. Bunch, “Vampires”

Sunlight, or a stake,
or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we shrink from his voice.

Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Alliteration: a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

2

What is the effect of this figure of speech?

3

Try to write a sentence using this figure of speech.