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Answer B:
I totally enjoyed my time at the cinema this weekend. My friends and I asked each other out to
watch a film last Sunday because we heard that the horror movie was a really good one. Indeed,
it was a great one! Actually, it was a series of five short films rolled into one. Each story has a
connection with the others, so the transitions weren’t vague. I liked the one wherein a girl has to
spend minutes inside an elevator, which was allegedly haunted, as an initiation in her new club.
It was a spine-tingling episode! I literally felt my hair rise! The theater was filled with shrieks, from
the film itself and from the audience. My friends and I hugged each other tight and closed our
eyes when all the gory scenes were on screen. One of my friends even cried. When the film was
done, we were all a bit traumatized, an after-effect which we usually feel when watching good
horror films. However, we will never tire of screaming our lungs out when watching a horror film!

Points to emphasize in answering:
Give the title of the movie you watched.

Narrate a summary or plot of the story.

Tell if you liked the film or not. Give details to support your opinion.
[example: We heard that ___ was a really good film, and bet my dollars on it, it
really was!]

Conclude the narration.
[example: However, we will never tire of screaming our lungs out when watching
a horror film!]

Vocabulary
totally - completely
series - sequence of episodes
vague - unclear
allegedly - purportedly
initiation - commencement; a starting ritual or activity
haunted - ghostly
spine-tingling - scary and suspenseful
shriek - scream
traumatized - disturbed
scream lungs out - scream very loud

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