S U M M I N G - U P AC T I V I T I E S WORKING ON THE TEXT 1 Here are 5 very short summaries of each story but with some words missing. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words and add the title of the story. a. ..................................................................................................................................................... A story about being buried .......................... . It is a ....................... tale, which considers the fine line between ........................... and ............................ . The reader becomes very involved and feels what it must be like to suffer from ............................ . b. ..................................................................................................................................................... This story is about an old ........................... and its secrets. The narrator receives a ........................... from an old school-friend he has not seen for years, asking him to pay him a ........................... . He is a ........................... man and lives with his ......................... sister, ........................., in a haunted house near a ........................... .The narrator is in for a ........................... shock during his stay. c. ..................................................................................................................................................... A tale of ............................................. . The narrator in this story has been deeply insulted by a man called ............................... . He takes advantage of this man s arrogance to tempt him down into an underground ........................... to taste some very special wine. What happens down there makes a ........................... story. d. ..................................................................................................................................................... This is a ........................... story about ........................... . It is really ........................... and has a macabre ending. It is about a man, ............................., who has always lived alone in a house with his cousin, ........................... . The ending will make you ........................... . e. ..................................................................................................................................................... A tragic ........................... story. An ........................... is obsessed by the desire to paint the ........................... portrait of his ........................... young wife, to the extent that he sees nothing else around him until he has put the final last two ........................... of the ........................... on the canvas. 86