What to read when you are locked in a bookshop

Get into pairs, A and B. Close your eyes. Your teacher will call A or B when it's time for you to look. 

Describe the pictures you see to your partner. They illustrate a story, can you guess what happens in it?

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This is what happened to David Willis. He had been browsing in Waterstones in Trafalgar Square on Thursday night, but went downstairs shortly after 9pm to find the lights out and the shop deserted. Despite calls to the shop’s security and police, he spent two hours trapped inside the darkened store – and was only rescued when he used Twitter to alert the world to his predicament. 

You can read the whole story here. 

Here is a short video of what happened.

 

Think about what you would like to read if you got locked.

• a poem
• a comic book
• a detective story
• a ghost story 
• a cookery book
• a science fiction story 

What's your favourite book ever?
 

Where else could you find yourself locked?

Choose your ideal place to get locked and write a short story about it.

 

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