THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

ACTIVITIES – BEFORE READING 4 - 10 – The ghost went down just to look at the
bloodstain, but the twins and Washington were waiting
ACTIVITY 1 for him.

1. Yes 5 - 8 – The gost planned to do the Horseman of Death,

2. Yes but in the end was too frightened to leave his room.
3. No
4. No CHAPTER 5
5. Yes
1. Why did Virginia go up the back stairs ?
6. No
Because she wanted to change her skirt before
ACTIVITY 2 anyone see the hole in it.
2. What eas the ghost doing when Virginia saw
1. Yes him?
2. Yes He was sitting near the window, watching the
3. No leaves dan cing in the wind.
4. Yes 3. Who locked Sir Simon in a room without food
5. No or water ?
His wife brothers.
ACTIVITIES – WHILE READING 4. Why was Viriginia so angry about the
bloodstain?
CHAPTER 1
Because the ghost used her paints to make it,
1. Skeleton hands and only left her dark blue and white.
2. A ghost 5. Who didn’t want to go to America ?
3. He asked her if she wants to mary him The ghost.
4. He killed his wife. 6. What couldn’t the ghost do ?
5. The bloodstain He couldn’t sleep.
6. She wants more money 7. Where did the ghost want to go ?
He wanted to go to the Garden of Death.
CHAPTER 2 8. What two things could Virginia do for the
ghost?
1. B
She could pray and cry for him.
2. C
9. Where did the ghost go with Virginia ?
CHAPTER 2 AND 3 Into a great black hole in the wall.

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2; 5; 6; 8; 9
CHAPTER 4

1 - 7 – The ghost used oil on his chains because he ACTIVITIES – AFTER READING
didn’t want anymore to hear him.
ACTIVITY 1
2 - 9 – One night the twins put butter on the top stair,
1. Butter
which made the ghost fall down the stairs to the
The ghost has just fallen down the stairs.
bottom.
Because the butter that the twins put on the
3 - 6 – When the gost went into the twins’ room, a jug top stair, his feet went from under him and he
of water fell down on him and he got very wet. went crashing down the bottom.
2. Paint
 The ghost has just found out that Washington The picture goes on page 23.
has cleaned the bloodstain off the library floor.
He finds Virginia’s paint box and decides to 1. Twins bedroom.
make the bloodstain again using the red paints. 2. ----- ? ----- I don’t know
3. Medicine 3. Angry, and unhapy.
The ghost has just hurried up the stairs, getting
away from the Otis men, who came out when ACTIVITY 4
he fell to the floor with the armour. Then he 5, 9, 2, 7, 4, 1, 3, 8, 6
gives his famous horrible laugh, and Mrs Otis
comes out of the bedroom to give him some ACTIVITY 5
medicine because she thinks he has a pain in his
stomach. Least – as a big black dog
4. Oil
Most – as a skeleton
This is the first meeting between the ghost and
the Otis family. The ghost is walking past Mr
Otis’s bedroom, making a lot of noise with a
bottle of Tammany’s Sun Oil, wich he tells the
ghost to pu on his chains.
5. Turnip
The ghost has just been back to look at the
second ghost again, very early in the morning.
When he puts his arms round the ghost, its
head falls off, and then he understands that the
ghost is not real and is just another trick by the
Otis family.

ACTIVITY 2

Words across: frighten, ghost, medicine, false, passage, trick,

spray

Words down: faint, feather, kiss, jug, jewels, disappear,

sekeleton, fireplace

1. I have not slept for three hundred years.

2. The ghost to Virginia.
3. Virginia prayed for the ghost to have peace, and
then she and her family took Sir Simon’s
Skeleton to the Garden Death.

ACTIVITY 3