

The door slammed shut behind Roger, he heard a loud “clang” as the heavy old key hit the stone of the porch outside. (PERCEIVE) breath of air, which flowed through the ground floor, as if the house itself was reacting to a/an 20. No sooner had this thought crossed his mind than around the corner came an almost 19. (NOTE) ancestors and the heads of various animals mounted on the walls. (QUESTION) taste in decorations floor to ceiling oil paintings of 17. What struck Roger immediately were the reminders of his father’s 16. (FOOT) echoed throughout the house in a/an 15. As he stepped across the threshold his 14. ……………….(WOOD) door, he took the old iron key from his pocket and unlocked it with a 13. ……………… (BOY) hopes and dreams he had had for this 11.

(VOLUNTEER) shudder ran down his spine.īut it was over, and he could now envisage the 9. …………… (MAD) It was something that had befallen the last three generations of men in his family, a thought that he pushed to the back of his mind as a/an 8.

………………(SUSPECT) carers off-guard, until the final descent into silent 7. ……………… (PAIN) transition we all hope for, screaming night terrors, lashing out 5. In the end, the death of the formidable patriarch of the family had been far from the 4. ……………… (INHERIT) after his father’s passing the previous week. Finally it was his, the jewel in the crown of his 3. ………………(SYMBOL) effigy of the family’s grasp over the local 2. It stood on the top of the hill looking down over the land around, a 1. Roger trudged up the drive of the ancient hall, the seat of his family’s power for over two centuries. Read the story, ignore the gaps, see if your predictions were correct. With your partner, make some predictions about what will happen in the story. You’re going to read the first part of a horror story called “The Family Legacy”, it involves: C1_c2-spooky-word-formation_-the-family-legacy-teachers-notes Download Pre-Reading
