In the text find words and phrases which are associated with the word “fear”. Fear: It made my hear stand on end a sight

Fear: made my hair stand on end, finally got myself together, ghastly, struck terror in my heart, my hair stood on end, weird, my heart nearly stopped, dead scared, rooted to the spot, horrible.

Tapescript (Ex. 4A)

Tom’s story.

I can remember it so clearly even though it all happened really quickly. It was Monday evening, about 9.30. 1 was sitting in my room watching television. My mum was out, so I was alone in the house.

All of a sudden, the walls of the house began to.. .shake! I heard a deafening roar, and it sounded as if something was coming so close to the house it was going to crash through the wall! I don’t know what was shaking more - the house, or me...with fright!

I looked out the window and a fighter jet flew past so low it made the windows rattle. I really thought it was going to crash into the house.

After the plane had passed, I was still shaking with fright. Strangely, though, I felt really excited too and I thought about going outside to see what was happening. My curiosity got the better of my fear and I ran out into the rain.

I saw something unreal. The plane was chasing a ball of dazzling white light moving across the sky. The light didn’t flash. It was moving incredibly fast, weaving around so that the plane could hardly keep up. Then, they both disappeared in the dark.

What was it I saw? Was this a close encounter with something alien? The whole thing only lasted a couple of minutes. Could it really be a plane chasing a UFO? But why else would a fighter plane be flying at night in the rain?

I always thought that people were imagining things when they reported seeing strange bright lights in the sky and UFOs, but I’ve never seen anything like that before.