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Vocabulary There are a lot of story types and famous titles I think you all know: fairy tales "Cinderella", adventure "Treasure Island", romance "Gone with the Wind", mystery "Sherlock Holmes", science fiction "2001, A Space Odyssey" or ghost stories "A Christmas Carol". In this unit we'll read a mystery story, we'll try to solve the case of seven dead swimmers and we'll also write a story about a strange day that happened to Kylie. Let's start with a list of useful words that you'll find in the unit: adventure ladder science fiction advertisement murder scream crime mystery (to) solve dead police report (to) trust fairy tale romance victim (to) float (to) row witness ghost story sailing boat

Here's a story by Russell Barnes, aged 13, from Canada. The story is about detective Gold. He was at home and he wasn't happy. Suddenly some words started to appear on his computer screen. This was unusual because he wasn't using the keyboard. The message asked him to follow the instructions.

Did the detective follow the instructions? Yes, he did. At ten o'clock the next morning he was standing outside joe's Café.