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47 I talked to Mark Fox, the Drury Lane theatre archivist, who is sceptical, but even he thinks there is something unexplained and spooky about the building. He has heard his name called out late at night, and strange crashing noises against his door. His dog is afraid to go down certain corridors. I can’t help looking over my shoulder on my way out. The door rattles and a draft blows in from under it. What was that noise? Mice? 0 What is the writer doing? taking a backstage tour 1 Why does the tour guide joke that he can smell lavender? 2 Why do the visitors laugh nervously? 3 What is the purpose of the ‘ghost light’? 4 Which ghost remains unidentified? 5 How does the ‘Helping Hand’ ghost treat actors? (Give one answer.) 6 How does Mark Fox feel about the ghosts? Topic vocabulary: Adjective-noun collocations Look back at the adjective-noun collocations on p. 135 of your coursebook. Use pairs to complete the sentences below. Sometimes more than one combination is possible. 1 As part of his , Neil Gaiman answers his emails when he gets up before he starts writing. 2 It’s no secret that Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights ever, that’s just . 3 I hate the office I work at. There are no windows and the gives me a headache. 4 I knew autumn was close when I saw the first on the ground. 5 The maths teacher had a very as no student had ever failed her class. 6 Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal, one of the in writing, for The Graveyard Book . LANGUAGE 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv