Read the story and tell your own spooky story.

Use your dictionary to translate the phrases in the boxes.

She lived to regret ever laying eyes on them. The lad was as cute as a button. They legged it out the door. As I groggily came to A team of firefighters trooped inside to tackle the blaze. As it turned out I was flicking through a newspaper when I stopped dead in my tracks I was stunned as I read the story

People were saying the painting was cursed. A shiver ran down my spine. Surely it couldnt be evil! She was convinced the painting was somehow to blame. Have you noticed anything odd going on? It was dead creepy. Id wake at 3am to see the same male spirit grinning at me.

It must have followed me here. I stumbled downstairs to make a cuppa. It wasnt my old home that was haunted, it was the painting! The realisation made my head spin. To be on the safe side Ive given up on buying second-hand art.