English practical workGhost in the Guitar

By Paul Shipton

•Katherine: she is Tom´s girlfriend. She works in an electronics factory. She plays the keyboard in Steel City•Tom: He works in a supermarket. He is the guitarist in Steel City•Danny: He plays the drums in the band•Aruna: She is the bass player and the band´s singer•Rachel: She is Katherine´s sister •David Ryan: he is the ghost of the guitar. He used to play in a 80´s band called Circle of Gold.•Phil Carter: he was the bass player of Circle of Gold•Linda Carter: she is Phil´s wife•Mrs Webster: she is Tom´s mom

This story is about a girl who is in Steel City, a music band that wants to become very famous. For this, they worked very hard to participate in The Battle of The Bands.

In the middle, before the competion started, Tom’s guitar broke, so he went with Katherine to buy a new one. In the end, Tom bought an old and dirty(but cheap) guitar. Since then the problems began. Tom began to behave in a different way.

Katherine found his behavior very wierd and suspicious and started to investigate about this new guitar. Although she was very afraid, she kept investigating about it. She went to Linda Carter’s flat, the girl who selled that guitar to the guitar shop owner. Linda was Phil Carter’s wife. Phil Carter used to be part of Circle of Gold, an 80’s band.

Linda told her about David Ryan, the guitarist of that band of 20 years ago. She said that David was a wonderful guitar player, he even lost his job for practising guitar the whole day; after the Battle of the Bands, he left very angrily and drove very fast on that(it was a rainy day the road was wet) and the road was wet , so he suffered an accident and died immediately.

After talking to Linda, she went to her sister, Rachel, to ask for help. She told her all the story and Rachel suggested to search in the library. They found a newspaper from 1980(it wasn’t complete because a few years before there was a fire) about the Battle of the Bands from that year, there were photos of every band.

They noticed that David’s appearence in the photo was the same as Tom’s appearence lately. They thought that the accident would happen with Tom if they didn’t win the competition: Tom would die.

On the competition’s day, Rachel came with Phil. Phil explained that on the competition’s day 20 years ago, Circle of Gold did win the competition; David was very angry because the other members of the band weren’t playing well. So, to save Tom, Steel City wouldn’t have to win neccesarily: they had to give their best at the show.

Katherine was very nervous and confused, she wanted to save Tom and she also wanted to win the competition. At the end of the competition, there was a tie between The Passengers and Steel City. So it was decided that the two bands had to play another song. Tom decided to play the last song on his own, just like 20 years ago’s competition. Katherine decided to forget the competition and save Tom. She ran into the stage, took Tom’s guitar and smashed it against the ground again and again until it broke into many pieces.

Finally, David’s ghost disappeared and Tom was himself again. Steel City didn’t win that day, it didn’t really matter, but Tom was very sad, he knew that he would never become a big star. The band continued playing, but now, they weren’t interested in becoming famous.

The End