This is a PPT to go with my horror movie ESL lesson. For the full lesson plan go to www.highschoolesl.com

2. Listen.
• What can you hear?
• Where do you think it is?
• How does it make you feel?

3. On dark stormy nights the Suckablood 1………
For those 2…… and 3….. who still suck their thumbs
This is small Tilly caught once again
With thumbs that need lessons from 4…………. cane
Since punishment won’t stop her thumbs getting wet
Mother calls down a curse that the girl won’t 5………..

4. Section 1
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Who are the characters?
Why is one character angry?
What does the angry character do?
What does this mean?
Suckablood, Suckablood, I beg you come
To slaughter my daughter should she suck her thumb
(Suckablood, Suckablood, please come,
And kill my daughter if she sucks her thumb)

5. And without any prayers, without being fed
Up the dark stairs she’s sent to her 1……..
Poor Tilly fears this house in the 2……….
The 3………….. that live herehave large appetites
She tries not to 4…….. them,she creeps like a 5………
And climbs to her room at the top of the 6………..

6. Section 2
• How does Tilly feel?
• What is she holding?
• Why do you think she goes to bed?

7. Alone in her 1………., the candles grow dim
The 2…….. howled and droned and the monsters 3……… in
Tilly craved comfort and lookedto her thumb
Begging Suckablood, Suckablood, 4......... do not come

8. Section 3
• Where was Suckablood hiding?
• Why does Suckablood not hurt her?

9. She felt her way back without any 1.......
An 2....... was lurking, but 3......... would it bite?
Through a house full of 4........... Tilly stepped on her toes
Where reaching the study her tiny ......... froze

10. Section 4
• How do you think the story will end?