Contents

People in the story 4

New words 5

Note about the story 6

Before-reading questions 6

Chapter One – Blood on the f loor 7

Chapter Two – A noisy night 14

Chapter Three – Two ghosts! 18

Chapter Four – Virginia meets the ghost 28

Chapter Five – Virginia disappears 45

Chapter Six – The ghost sleeps 51

During-reading questions 56

After-reading questions 57

Exercises 58

Project work 62

Glossary 63

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CHAPTER ONE

Blood on the floor

Yes, Lord Canterville. Canterville Hall is a very nice

house. Please can I buy it?

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THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

I can buy the ghost with the house. I’m an American. We like old things. How old is the ghost?

Yes, of course you can buy it, but do you know about the ghost, Mr Otis? My family does not live

in Canterville Hall, because a ghost lives there. It haunts people and

frightens them.

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BLOOD ON THE FLOOR

The ghost is 300 years old, and it is real, Mr Otis.

Look at the sky, Virginia. A lot of wind and rain is coming!

The next month, Mr Otis and his wife, and their four children, travelled to Canterville Hall.

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THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

Good morning. I’m Mrs Umney. This is Canterville Hall. I am the housekeeper here.

Hello, Mrs Umney. I’m Mr Otis. This is my wife, Lucretia. This is my son Washington and my daughter,

Virginia. And these naughty boys are our twins.

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BLOOD ON THE FLOOR

And this is the drawing room.

What’s that on the f loor?

It’s a beautiful room.

The family went into Canterville Hall.

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THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

It’s the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville. Her husband, Sir Simon de Canterville, killed her in 1575. Nine years after this, Sir Simon

disappeared. Now he haunts this house. He frightened many people in the Canterville family and did some very bad things to them.

And the blood in the drawing room never goes. You can clean it, but it never goes.

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