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Continue Activity 11 below
• Pick a volunteer to read the story and comment on it while he is reading.
• Listen to the track and use it as an example.

12. Choose an extract from the story you selected in Activity 7. TRACK 53

• Read and identify the sound effects, the actions and the lines of the characters.
• Determine the effect the narrator provokes in the addressee. Look at the example.
Example:

sound actions lines

'I couldn't sleep that night. It was a very stormy night, with a
lot of wind and rain. Suddenly I heard a woman's scream. It was
my sister's voice. I ran into the corridor, and just then I heard a
whistle, and a minute later the sound of falling metal. I didn't know
what it was. I ran to my sister's door. She opened it and fell to
the ground. Her face was white and afraid, and she was crying,
"Help me, help me, Helen, I'm ill, I'm dying!" I put my arms around
her, and she cried out in a terrible voice: "Oh my God, Helen! It
was the band! The speckled band!" She wanted to say more, but
she couldn't. I called my stepfather, who tried to help her, but we

could do nothing. And so my dear, dear sister died.

Conclusion: I believe the effect provoked in the reader is of
fear. The sound effects are quite scary, nature replicates
what is going on in the house: the storm evokes frightening

sounds (whistle, scream, cries) and the night reflects the
inability to understand what is going on, just like Helen can’t
understand what happened to her sister.

• Recreate the scene and do a dramatic reading to the rest of the class.
• Include the sounds, the actions and lines you just highlighted.
Remember

Mystery and suspense are interrelated. The author exposes the same
information in the mystery narrative that a detective might know to his
readers. In a suspense narrative, on the other hand, the protagonist
gradually becomes aware of the peril and dangers, which readers
already know. Secondly, in a mystery, a major event such as a murder
or robbery happens first and then the protagonist solves it, whereas in
a suspense story, a major event occurs at the end.

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