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Halloween: the rainy summer that created Frankenstein

Reading · Halloween · B1 · 25 min. The true story of the 1816 ghost-story competition at Lake Geneva where Mary Shelley began Frankenstein, with true/false, vocabulary and a creative task.

About this worksheet

The true story of the 1816 ghost-story competition at Lake Geneva where Mary Shelley began Frankenstein, with true/false, vocabulary and a creative task.

Level
B1
Category
Reading
Topic
Halloween
Time
About 25 minutes
Exercises
Reading text, True / False, Matching, Speaking / writing task, Writing lines
Answer key
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On the sheet

  • Reading text: Read the text.
  • True / False: Read the text again. True or false?
  • Matching: Match the words from the text with their meanings.
  • Speaking / writing task: Imagine you are at the Villa Diodati in 1816. Write the first three or
  • Writing lines: Write here.

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