Name: IELTS Speaking: How to talk about a book or film
Uploaded: 2019-10-13T08:12:39.000Z
Duration: 11 min 32 s
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In today's lesson you are going to learn two things: Firstly, how to tell a scary story

full of suspense and tension; and secondly, how to talk about a book as you might be required

So, what I have put up here on the board is different groups of words, so we've got adverbs,

nouns, we've got verbs, and then phrases which you could use in a story of this type.

So, I'm going to demonstrate how to use these words; and hopefully, you'll feel inspired

to go off and write your own short story afterwards.

I'd love to hear about it on the engVid Facebook page or just on your comments under this video.

So, we're going to link the verbs with the adverbs.

I should first off explain what exactly these types of stories are.

This is a story in which something, something dangerous, something scary remains hidden.

We don't quite know what it is, but there's something out there in the dark that may do

So, in a story like this, people are going to be "holding their breath".

"The boy held his breath", if I was to write that in the past tense.

He trembled silently because he was on his own.

"Shudder" basically means the same thing.

So, if I say it twice but in a different way, it just adds to the effect.

"He trembled silently and shuddered with the thought of what lay next door."

If I say exactly what is next door; that there's a yellow, spotted lizard, then the story becomes

I need to keep the idea that we don't know exactly what is next door.

"He crept", and now let's add another adverb.

"He crept"-that would work well-"nervously".

So, "nervously", he's full of nerves; he's, like, biting his teeth about what's going

to happen when he steps out into the corridor.

"He crept nervously out into the corridor."

Okay, so I've used my verbs; let's see which other adverbs I could use.

So, if you are being cautious, then you're being very careful.

If you're acting cautiously, you're doing the same thing.

"He cautiously looked from left to right."

Okay, so we've done "cautiously", we've done "silently", now let's do "suddenly".

"Suddenly a bat flew past him", so one of those black, nasty, scary bird-like animals

That's going to be quite scary; we'll have that in there.

So, prefix "un" means not; "expect" - something we think is going to happen.

So, suddenly something we don't think is going to happen happens.

So, we've managed to use these adverbs, we've managed to use these verbs.

These are the types of nouns that would be good in a story like this; in a scary story.

10 out of 10 in the quiz after the lesson."

A feeling of unease is: "Oo, what's happening here?

How am I going to get 10 out of 10 in this lesson"?

Worry is what "distress" means, and you can add an "ed" to turn it into an adjective.

Obviously if I wanted to turn it into an adjective, I would put: "ened.

"Dread", this is a sense of not liking what is going to happen in the future; being really

So, you've got lots of different words here to express fear.

That shows on the body how scared the person is that they're starting to sweat; that the

I should have a blue pen for this; a cold sweat.

So, "sweat", when we're very, very worried and anxious and stressed, we may start sweating.

A "draught" is when we have air blowing through under a door, for example.

It just helps to set the scary atmosphere.

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