The document provides vocabulary and instructions for an activity to practice simple past tense and telling about frightening experiences. It includes a list of words related to robbery, theft and crime in the dead of night. It then gives a partial story and asks the reader to fill in blanks with provided words and finish the story, describing the most frightening day of their life and the type of criminals involved.

1. SPEAKING SKILLS
Simple Past Tense
What is your most frightful
experience?
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2. Simple Past Tense
Use the words given below.
Make sentences in the simple past
Vocabulary
rob, loot, steal, dead of night, late in the night,
rattling sounds, loud noise, crept in stealthily,
barged in, ransacked, filled with, cried out,
raised an alarm, shouted out,
got off, ran away with, gave a chase,
caught red handed, marched off, gave a slip,
landed in jail

3. ACTIVITY
A HORRIFYING NIGHT
Fill in the blanks in the story with the words and phrases given below:
quietly, picked up, going to bed, slipped out, switched off/put off,
loud noise, thought, moving about, picked up, called up, went,
quickly
Ambica always read something before ------- ---- ----.As usual she ---
-- ---- the light and ---- to bed. Suddenly she heard some ---- ------ .
At first she ----- it was her imagination. But she saw some masked
figures ------ ------- in the hall. She was sure that it was no fancy. She
----- --- the police. She sent messages to her neighbors. She slowly ----
-- -------through the back door. She hid in the outhouse. In a short
span of time a battalion of armed police arrived with guns.
Immediately the thieves fled, taking …………
Now complete the story “ The Most frightful day of my life.”
Are they thieves, robbers, burglars, pirates ,dacoit or
bandits?
Are they Kleptomaniacs?