The Secret Door
Flyers coaching · Reading & Writing Part 3 · Stories and Mysteries
The door in the cupboard
Harry and his family moved to an old house by the sea last month. One rainy afternoon, Harry was looking for his football boots in the big (1) ______ under the stairs.
Behind some old coats, he found a small door. It was made of dark wood and it had a gold handle. Harry was very (2) ______. He opened it slowly. There were stone steps going down to the (3) ______.
It was dark, so Harry went back for a (4) ______. Down in the basement, he found a long (5) ______. “Where does it go?” he whispered. A big (6) ______ ran across the wall.
Harry ran upstairs and told Dad. “Wow! That’s a very old tunnel. People used it two hundred years ago,” said Dad. “Let’s keep it a (7) ______ for now. We’ll explore it at the (8) ______, with a map.”
Harry wrote it on the (9) ______: “SATURDAY: THE TUNNEL!” He couldn’t wait for the weekend.
Vocabulary
- secret — Something that only you or a few people know.
- cupboard — A piece of furniture with doors where you keep plates, food or clothes.
- tunnel — A long way under the ground or through a mountain.
- basement — A room under a house, below the ground.
- calendar — A page or a book that shows the days, weeks and months of the year.
- weekend — Saturday and Sunday.
- candle — It gives light when you burn it. It is often on a birthday cake.
- spider — A small animal with eight legs that makes webs.
- stairs — Steps that take you up or down in a building.
- surprised — How you feel when something happens that you did not think would happen.
Sample questions (10 questions)
- (1)
- cupboard
- calendar
- tunnel
- (2)
- stairs
- surprised
- secret
- (3)
- candle
- weekend
- basement
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