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Pictorial<br />

Vampire house<br />

We’ve just escaped from a houseful of vampi<strong>res</strong>! Brianna drew this cut-away walls<br />

diagram to show what we saw as we crept <strong>through</strong> it. We entered by way of the<br />

ground level, front door. The room there, a sitting room, had a couple of plump<br />

chairs and three hung paintings. The paintings were portraits of normal people,<br />

we thought. A little pale-skinned maybe, but they didn’t show any other ‘vampiric’<br />

featu<strong>res</strong>. Past the central staircase was a kitchen. This room had the first vampire.<br />

It stood almost two met<strong>res</strong> tall, still as a statue, fangs out and d<strong>res</strong>sed sleekly in a<br />

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long cloak. We chanced a glance into the cellar. Whoa! To the right, there stood a<br />

bat-winged monster! To the left lurked another vampire, d<strong>res</strong>sed like the first one,<br />

but this one was moving, running long-fingered hands over a long box on a <strong>low</strong><br />

platform. We back-pedalled quietly to the top floor. In a front bedroom, we saw a<br />

vampire floating horizontally in mid-air. It was looking out the window, probably<br />

waiting for night to fall. The back bedroom wasn’t so scary—only a ghost in there.<br />

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COMPREHENSION THROUGH CLOZE <strong>Book</strong> 4 978-1-922426-73-4 R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricpublications.com.au

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