Reading comp - horror movies

• Engels
• Middelbare school

Horror clichés

Read an article about horror film clichés to practise and improve: 

• vocabulary
• reading skills
• discussion
  

Preparation task: 

Match the words with the definitions

producing a sense of fear or making you feel uncomfortable

1. handy
2. creepy
3. suspense
4. desperation

an idea that has been used so often that people think it is bad, unoriginal or boring

1. handy
2. resourceful
3. suspense
4. a cliché

useful or convenient

1. handy
2. resourceful
3. desperation
4. creepy

a feeling of pleasurable excitement while waiting to find out what is going to happen

1. creepy
2. suspense
3. uninhabited
4. resourceful

the feeling of needing or wanting something so much you will do anything to get it

1. uninhabited
2. desperation
3. respourceful
4. handy

to be so frightened or surprised by something that you physically move

1. creepy
2. suspense
3. to jump out of your skin
4. scared shitless

Read the text

Subheadings

Give each paragraph a heading. Choose from (there is one to many):

• Deadly hitchhiker
  
• Is he really dead?
  
• Don’t make me go down there!
  
• Lone survivor
  
• I can’t get through!
  
• Nobody lives here

Give each of the paragraphs a heading.