Filling gaps activity for students of elementary level; English File Elementary 3rd edition, Unit 8 C

2. Would you like to stay in a ______ 1 hotel? There are many
hotels in Britain that people say are haunted. If you are
feeling ______2, you can stay the night in one of these
hotels. England: Gosforth Hall Inn Gosforth hall is a small
hotel in Cumbria in the north of England, built in 1658.
People say the hotel has the ____ 3 of a Catholic _______ 4.
He usually _________ 5 in room 11. There is a secret
_______ 6 that goes from behind the fireplace in the hotel
_______ 7 to room 11. In 17th-century England, Catholic
priests used the tunnel to _______ 8 from Protestants.

3. The _______ 9 of the hotel, Rod Davies, says: ‘I didn’t believe
in ghosts before I came here, but strange things _______ 10 in
the hotel. One guest woke up in the middle of the night and
saw a tall man standing next to his bed. He ____ ____11 the
next morning.’ Rod’s wife says: ‘One night a lot of books fell
off a shelf in the lounge. And sometimes when I am working I
feel that someone is _______ 12 me, but when I _____ ____ 13
nobody is there.’
Ghost hunters: Ask for Room 11.
www.gosforthhallhotel.co.uk

4.  haunted
 brave
 ghost
 priest
 appears
 tunnel
 lounge
 hide
 owner
 happen
 checked out
 watching
 turn round

5. Scotland: Comlongon Castle Comlongon is a 15th-
century _____ 1 in a small village near Dumfries in
south-west Scotland. The castle is _______2 by the
Green Lady, the ______ 3 of Lady Marion
Carruthers. Lady Marion was ________ 4 because
she was married to a man she did not love, and in
1570 she _______ 5 from the castle walls and killed
herself. Many strange things _______ 6 in the hotel –
doors open and close, and lights _______ 7 and off in
_____ 8 rooms.

6. An American couple _____ 9 opened the
door of their room and saw a young
woman sitting on the bed. They left
because they thought they were in the
______ 10 room. In fact it was their room,
but when they came back the room
was ____ 11.
Ghost hunters: Ask for The Carruthers
suite
http://www.comlongon.com/

7.  castle
 haunted
 ghost
 unhappy
 jumped
 happen
 empty
 go on
 once
 wrong
 empty