The Canterville Ghost Stage 2

Before Reading 3 Who . . .? His wifes brothers.

4 Why . . .? Because the ghost used her paints to

activities answers
make it, and only left her dark blue and
before reading activities (page 44) white.
Activity 1 before reading 5 Who . . .? The ghost.
1 Yes 2 Yes 3 No 4 No 5 Yes 6 No 6 What . . .? He couldnt sleep.
7 Where . . .? He wanted to go to the Garden of
Activity 2 before reading
Death.
Encourage students to speculate and to make
8 What . . .? She could pray for him, and cry for him.
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They
9 Where . . .? Into a great black hole in the wall.
will find out as they read that the yes answers are
numbers 1 and 4. Before reAding chApter 6
Encourage students to speculate and to make
While Reading guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
find out as they read that the answers are numbers
chApter 1 while reading
2, 5, 6, 8, 9.
1 Two skeleton hands.
2 A ghost. After Reading
3 He asked her to marry him.
4 He murdered his wife. Activity 1 after reading
5 The bloodstain. 1 butter
6 She wanted them to pay her more money. The ghost has just fallen down the stairs. Because of
the butter that the twins put on the top stair, his feet
Before reAding chApter 2
went from under him and he went crashing down to
Encourage students to speculate and to make
the bottom.
guesses, but do not tell them the answers. They will
2 paint
find out as they read that the answers are 1b and
The ghost has just found out that Washington has
2c.
cleaned the bloodstain off the library floor. He
chApters 2 And 3 while reading finds Virginias paint box and decides to make the
The correct order is: 4, 1, 8, 3, 7, 5, 2, 6 bloodstain again using the red paints.
3 medicine
chApter 4 while reading
The ghost has just hurried up the stairs, getting
1+7 The ghost used oil on his chains because he
away from the Otis men, who came out when he
didnt want anyone to hear him.
fell to the floor with the armour. Then he gives his
2+9 One night the twins put butter on the top stair,
famous horrible laugh, and Mrs Otis comes out of
which made the ghost fall down the stairs to the
the bedroom to give him some medicine because she
bottom.
thinks he has a pain in his stomach.
3+6 When the ghost went into the twins room, a
4 oil
jug of water fell down on him and he got very
This is the first meeting between the ghost and the
wet.
Otis family. The ghost is walking past Mr Otiss
4+10 The ghost went down just to look at the
bedroom, making a lot of noise with his chains. Mr
bloodstain, but the twins and Washington were
Otis comes out into the passage with a bottle of
waiting for him.
Tammanys Sun Oil, which he tells the ghost to put
5+8 The ghost planned to do the Horseman of
on his chains.
Death, but in the end he was too frightened to
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leave his room.
The ghost has just been back to look at the second
chApter 5 while reading ghost again, very early in the morning. When he puts
1 Why . . .? Because she wanted to change her skirt his arms round the ghost, its head falls off, and then
before anyone saw the hole in it. he understands that the ghost is not real and is just
2 What . . .? Nothing. / He was sitting near the another trick by the Otis family.
window, watching the leaves dancing in
the wind.

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 Activity 2 after reading

Words across: frighten, ghost, medicine, false,

passage, trick, spray
Words down: faint, feather, kiss, jug,
jewels,disappear, skeleton, fireplace
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I F R I G H T E N H S F
G H O S T O A V E D K I
N O T S L R E P T I E R
F F O K R R T J H S L E
M E D I C I N E R A E P
F A L S E B E W E P T L
A T H S J L U E N P O A
I H D R U E E L D E N C
N E Y E G P A S S A G E
T R I C K A R S P R A Y

1 The sentence is: I have not slept for three hundred

years.
2 The ghost said it to Virginia.
3 Virginia prayed for the ghost to have peace, and then
she and her family took Sir Simons skeleton to the
Garden of Death.
Activity 3 after reading

The picture goes on page 23.

1 The twins bedroom.
2 The jug is going to fall off the door, and the water
will go all over the ghost.
3 He will feel wet, angry, and unhappy, and the next
day he will be ill with a bad cold.
Lines taken from the story would make suitable
captions, for example:
A heavy jug of water fell right down on him.
Or students might like to think of something more
imaginative, for example:
A horrible surprise was waiting for the ghost.
The twins waited happily for the ghost to come
into the room.
Activity 4 after reading

The correct order is: 5, 9, 2, 7, 4, 1, 3, 8, 6

Sir Simon murdered his wife in the library in 1575.
Then, in 1584, he suddenly disappeared. His wifes
brothers locked him in a room without food or water,
and he died there. After that, his ghost began to appear
in Canterville Chase. For 300 years he was the best
ghost in the country. When the Otis family arrived, the
ghost had a difficult time. Then Virginia met the ghost,
and prayed for him to die. The family found Sir Simons
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skeleton, and put it in the ground in the Garden of

Death. After that, Sir Simons ghost never appeared
again.
Activity 5 after reading

Open answers.

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