WORD FOCUS Match cach word with an appropriate meaning. Then use nine of the
twelve words to complete Mr Harris's postcard to a friend. (Use one word
in each gap.) You will also need a tenth word, which is not in the list.
blood
bright
carriage
corridor
diamond
fall
(past tense fell)
ghost
a chair' on a train
to speak very, very quietly
to move suddenly from a
bigh place to a low place
a dead person that living people think they can see
a man who works on a train
full of light; shining strongly
the red liquid in a person's body
very bad; making you afraid or unhappy
a 'room' on a train
a beautiful, very expensive, bright stone
something beautiful that
women wear round the neck
the long, narrow place on a crain
with doors to the carriages
guard
necklace
seat
terrible
whisper
Last night I saw two s! They came into my on the train at
midnight - a brother and a sister. The brother had his sister's
(two words) in his pocket, and the young woman wanted it back
She was angry and afraid, and in the end she killed her brother with a
kme. There was all over the and the floor. It was
Iran down the to the back of the train and spoke to the
He told me that it all happened eighty years ago! I'm coming back to
Helsinki by Best wishes, Joseph Harris
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