MR HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN

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Story number 3:   MR HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN 

WORD FOCUS (PAGE 29)

BLOOD  the red liquid in a eson’s body

BRIGHT full of light; shining strongly

CARRIAGE  a ‘room’ on a train

CORRIDOR the long, narrow place on a train with doors to the carriages

DIAMOND a beautiful, very expensive, bright stone

FALL (past tense fell) to move suddenly from a high place to a low place

GHOST a dead person that living people think they can see

GUARD  a man who works on a train

NECKLACE something beautiful that women wear around the neck

SEAT a ‘chair’ on a train

TERRIBLE very bad; making you afraid or unhappy                     

WHISPER to speak very quietly

Last night I saw two ghosts! They came into my carriage on the train at midnight – a brother and a sister. The brother had his sister’s diamond necklace (two words) in his pocket, and the young woman wanted it back. She was angry and afraid, and in the end she killed her brother with a knife. There was blood all over the seat and the floor. It was terrible! I ran down the corridor to the back of the train and spoke to the guard. He told me that it all happened eighty yeas ago! I’m coming back to Helsinki by bus. Best wishes, Joseph Harris

MR HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN

STORY FOCUS (PAGE 30)

1 Elena, to her brother Carl.

2 Her husband, di Saronelli.

3 Because the diamond necklace belonged to her husband’s mother, and she knows how angry her husband will be. Perhaps she is afraid he will hit her.

4 Because he saw Elena kill Carl with a knife.

5 Elena; her face was white because she saw that her brother was dead, but she didn’t mean to kill him.

6 Perhaps he wanted to shout ‘Help!? Very loudly. Pershaps he wanted to ask Elena, ‘Why did you kill him? He was your brother!’

7 Mr Harris, to the guard.   

8 Elena and Carl

9 Mr Harris is beginning to understand that Elena and Carl are ghosts, not living people, because they both died eighty yeas ago.