"When you go walking by night up a street and a man, visible a long way off – for the street mounts uphill and there is a full moon – comes running towards you, well, you don’t catch hold of him, not even if he is a feeble and ragged creature, not even if someone chases yelling at his heels, but you let him run on."

1. Does it have a beginning - middle - end structure? What is the storyline?

2. Where is it set? What mental picture diod you have of the location where the action takes place? What do you think made you think of that place?

3. Who is telling the story? What sort of voice are you hearing in your head while you read it?

4. What do we know about the two “characters” who are described?

Here are a number of powerpoints created by pupils from Exeter Priory.

• Power 1
• Power 2
• Power 3
• Power 4
• Power 5
• Power 6
• Power 7
• Power 8
• Power 9
• Power 10
• Power 11