Lesson Introduction: When someone new moves into the neighborhood, the gossip starts immediately. Pretty soon, wild and crazy stories are flying around. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to describe a strange and unusual neighbor, and you’ll also learn some great English phrases that will help you spread the gossip!

A: Oh, I don’t know if you heard, but someone moved into that old house down the road.
B: Yeah, I know. I met the owner of the house yesterday as he was moving in. His name is Armand.
A: Really? What’s he like? You have to fill me in.
B: Actually, he’s a bit strange. I don’t know... I’ve got a bad feeling about him.
A: Really? Why?
B: Well, yesterday I brought over a housewarming gift, but Armand started acting really weird, and then he practically kicked me out! I tried to, sort of,peek into his house, but everything was so dark inside that I couldn’t really get a good look.
A: Well, you’ll never guess what I saw this morning. A delivery truck pulled into his driveway, and it dropped off a long, rectangular box. It almost looked like a coffin!
B: You see! Why would he...
C: Hello ladies...
B: Ah, Armand! You scared the heck out of me! This is my friend Doris.
C: A pleasure to meet you...If you are not doing anything tonight, I would like to have you both for dinner. I mean...I would like to have you both over for dinner.

I don’t know if you heard    phrase used to introduce a piece of information
fill me in  tell me about it
a bad feeling  a sense or feeling that something bad is going to happen
weird  strange, unusual
kick out  make or force someone leave when they don’t want to
creep me out  make me feel uncomfortable and a bit scared
you’ll never guess   phrase used to introduce a piece of news
scare the heck out of me   cause someone to feel a lot of fear
bizarre   strange or unusual
creepy   strange or scary, causing people to feel nervous and afraid
vampire   a dead person who drinks the blood of living people
have you heard  phrase used to introduce a piece of gossip
guess what   phrase used to introduce an interesting or surprising piece of information