the white house ghost
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Retold by S. E. Schlosser
It is said that Lincoln's ghost haunts the White House. He appears in the room where the
Lincoln bed is kept. Harry Truman once responded to a 3 o'clock knock on his door and found
no one there. He attributed the knock to Lincoln.
Lincoln is said to return to the White House when the security of the country is at risk. He
strides up and down the second floor hallway, raps at doors, and stands by certain windows
with his hands clasped behind his back. One staff member claimed to have seen Lincoln sitting
on his bed pulling on his boots.
A bodyguard to President Harrison was kept awake many nights trying to protect the president
from mysterious footsteps he heard in the hall. He grew so tired and worried; he finally
attended a sance to beg President Lincoln to stop so he could get enough sleep to properly
protect the president!
Abigail Adam's ghost was seen drifting through the closed doors of the East Room to hang the
laundry during the Taft administration.
A gardener claims to have spoken to the ghost of Dolly Madison, who reproved him for tryingto remove the rose bushes she had planted over a hundred years ago.
In the 1930s Andrew Jackson's ghost could be heard laughing in the Rose room.
In 1952, extensive repairs were done to the second floor of the White House. Since then, the
ghosts have not walked so actively.
FROM:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/dc.html
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1- Try and find as many words as you can from the ghost semantic
field:
Organize your findings in a grid.
Similar meaning Related words Reactions to ghosts
2- Write their translations, explain the differences of meaning.
3- What could the White House ghost be?
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4- Discuss with a partner what you know about the White House.
5- Using the title, guess what the story might be about.
6- Imagine a story. Be creative!
7- Prepare 6 guesses: what do you think the story is going to deal with?
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
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8- Prepare 6 questions to which you would like to find an answer in thereading.
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
9- Write 10 words you expect to find in the extract.
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
10-Imagine a short summary of the story using these words.
11- Discuss it with your partner.
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1- Write 10 key-words you read:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
2- Write a short summary of the story using those words and someconnectors.
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3- Check if you found the words you thought might appear in the textand tick the correct ones.
4- Try and answer your questions.
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
5- Prepare 6 more questions & answers to ask your friends:
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Answer the questions:
Who is mentioned?
What do you learn about them?
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Where does the story unfold?
When? (different dates or periods)
What is the text about?
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Do you like it or not?
Why?
1- Write a summary of the story.
2- Write a story using the same title. The best story (the mostinteresting, the most creative, the funniest.) will be selected bythe class.
3- Make a poster about the White House.
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4- Make a PowerPoint presentation about the most famous Americanpresidents.
5- Write the biography of A. Lincoln.