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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.

Do you know stories about love and death (books, films, songs, etc.)?				Love and death are: synonyms opposites
			↗
	←	Love to death	↘
				Love stories that end in death are: tragic romantic depressing heartbreaking

3
Check with this table what you already know.

Today, can you…	Prove it!	🙂	🙁
recount past events?	A few nights ago, ...
write speeches and stories?	Once upon a time,
recite a text?	“The Curse” — Red lips as dark as blood / white skin as soft as silk / black hair that shimmers in the moonlight

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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.

Audio guide

Atmosphere
Mystical creatures
Type of document
Inspiration

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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. Nevertheless, it is a film.

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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.

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