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CLICK-CLACK THE RATTLEBAG, by Neil Gaiman A. Before you listen to the story, match these words and expressions to their definitions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

actually tousle (one’s hair) make up (stories) shrug precocious unimpressed (by) pull one’s leg slammy (door) cosy chilly and drafty unsettling lair squeeze (someone’s hand) disgusting (or ‘icky’) sagely and soberly relieved railing(of a staircase) inherit tread unrelentingly

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to disarrange or disorder to lift both shoulders up to kid, make fun of in fact to invent that makes a loud noise when shut unusually advanced or mature in development warm and comfortable not having a favourable opinion (on) repulsive, gross, yucky agitating the mind or emotions to enclose in one's hand and apply pressure cold and windy the balustrade you can hold on to when going up or down a den or resting place of a wild animal resolutely and inflexibly wisely and seriously step, walk suddenly free from anxiety, fear, pain, etc. to receive money or proprieties from a dead relative

B. Complete the following summary with the help of the words from the box. which / however / sadly / stuff / therefore / hang / best/ worse / either / used / way / except /nothing / like her / way / except / best / worse / back / therefore / like / used / just / hang / bedtime / stuff

Neil Gaiman's Click-Clack the Rattlebag is read by the author himself. This is said to be a Halloween story. (1) ………………, it is also a scary story. It is about the (young Gaiman?) narrator and his girlfriend’s little brother. While she is out to buy wine, and the man is waiting for her at her house, her little brother asks the man to tell him a good bedtime story like the Click-Clack the Rattlebag one. The click-clacks are the (2) ……………… monsters in the world. Most of the time they come from the dark, (3) ……………… is a good place for monsters to come from. They grab you and take you to their lair. Then they will suck your blood. (4) ………………, they are not like vampires, who only drink a little of your blood (The child isn’t afraid of vampires and the narrator isn’t, (5) ……………….). The click-clacks are much, much (6)…………………. They will drink you like they’re drinking Coca Cola. First , they bite you; then all your meat, your brain, everything (7) ……………… your bones and skin turn into some wet milkshaky (8) ………………, which the click-clacks will suck out through the holes that (9) …………… to be your eyes (a rather vivid description of the scary and disgusting creatures!). As for the ‘rattlebag’, once you are (10) ……………… but bones and skin, the click-clacks will (11) ……………… you up on a hook, then you will rattle in the wind. When the man asks him about what click-clacks look (12) ………………, the boy answers that they look like what you are not expecting, what you will not pay attention to. Later, when they climb the stairs on their (13) ………………… to the boy’s room, the narrator knows, when he hears the rattle sound from the boy's bedroom, that he has not been paying attention. (14) ……………… enough, it is too late...