37300 sherlock holmes 4 pages

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Inverness cloak, pipe, deerstalker cap,
magnifying glass, waistcoat


Listening exercise: />Complete the sentences:
1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a famous ………………………………………………… .
2. He was on born on the 22nd of May, ………………………………………., in Edinburgh,
………………………………… .
3. He was the …………………………………… of 10 children.
4. He trained as a …………………………………………… .
5. Conan Doyle …………………………….. that his …………………………….. Dr Joseph
Bell was very clever at deducing his patients’ illnesses by noticing every tiny
……………………………….. .
6. He used this mastery of diagnostic deduction to create his most famous
……………………………………. character, Sherlock Holmes.
7. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the ‘A study in ……………………………….. ‘, a
short story published in ……………………………………. .
8. Sherlock Holmes is a ……………………………….. . He is famous
……………………………. his excellent ………………………………. skills and deductive
……………………………….. .
9. Holmes is very ………………………………. about his amazing abilities.
10. He often says that they are ………………………………………. .
11. He often ……………………… to his friend Dr John H. Watson how he has
reached his ………………………………… .
12. When you have excluded the ………………………………, whatever remains
however ………………………………., must be the truth.
13. Conan Doyle ……………………………. tired of Sherlock Holmes and tried to
………………………... the character in …………………………… , in the story ‘The Final
Problem’.

14. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to …………………………….. Holmes
……………………….. to life in the …………………………. Story ‘The Adventure of the
……………………….. House’.


15. Conan Doyle was knighted in ……………………… for his work as a doctor
during the second South African Boer War.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE STARRY NIGHT

These are the things that appear in the story. Can you name them?


The Adventure

1. Where did Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson decide to go on a
trip?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. How long did the journey take?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. What did they carry on their backs?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. What did they wear?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. What did they use for navigating?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. Who found the camping site? What was it like?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. Why did Holmes wake up in the middle of the night?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

8. What did Watson answer to Holmes’ question?


………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
9. What was Holmes’ reply?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..