Careful the bogey man is coming

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Conversation lesson: Careful the Boogie Man is coming!!!

Students: Mohamed, Veronica 98, Alexon, Jefro Kroll, Cagrimosan Hurricane, Mobin Hurricane, Noha (Asia, Europe)

Teacher: Donatela Benoir

We met up in a haunted house. Well that was what Donatella had said. It didn’t look scary upstairs, where we were sitting. But then we went downstairs where all the weird things were happening at once.

 It was a little room a very dark one – there weren’t any windows. There was a strange chest in a corner, which when opened let some wasps out. Fortunately they were quite harmless and didn’t sting us. The most interesting thing was in the middle of the room, a small chair.  If someone sat on the chair his or her head was cut off. So for a while some of us where running around like headless chickens.

This is actually an idiom that we can use in case we do something very quickly and without thinking carefully about what you are doing (usually in continuous tenses) .

After a while we went up, back to the living room. While sitting down we discussed what we saw and what scares us in general.  Jefro mentioned a film called The Exorcist.  It was made in 70ties and was banned for a number of years. I personally don’t find it that scary but Jefro and Donatella suggested that I may have seen the version that has been adjusted for TV. Well I may have, I don’t know. I mentioned The Shining – a Stanley Kubrick horror.

To sum up I still think that horrors are less scary than anything that makes our imagination run wild – people are very imaginative and resourceful, therefore they can create the worse scenarios in their minds. That’s when a Bogey Man comes in. It’s an imaginary being, which is used to scare children. I think, that everyone can imagine their own Bogey Man and doesn’t need anyone else’s description.