Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond
BEFORE READING
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
1 Mr Peterson: a hotel doorman
Mr Baker: unemployed
James Ryder: assistant manager in a hotel
John Horner: workman
Catherine Cusack: lady’s maid
Mrs Hudson: housekeeper
Mr Windigate: pub owner (or landlord)
Mr Breckinridge: shopkeeper
Mrs Oakshott: goose farmer
2 The people who help steal the diamond are James
Ryder and Catherine Cusack.
pp. 8–9
READING CHECK
1 b T
c F (The tall man left a Christmas bird in the street.)
d T
e F (Holmes gave the bird to Peterson.)
fF (Peterson’s wife found a blue diamond in the
bird.)
WORD WORK
1 b brain
f walking stick
c poor
g birds
d newspapers
h goose
e shoulder
2 The answer is ‘sapphire’.
3 b ADVERTISEMENT – Do you want to buy anew hat?
c He’s an intelligent man, with a red nose and grey hair.
d The crime didn’t happen in the sitting room.
e He tried to catch it before it fell.
f The doorman isn’t the owner of the hat.
g The story of the blue diamond is very interesting.
GUESS WHAT
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
a Nobody
d Holmes
b Holmes
e Holmes
c Nobody
f Holmes
pp. 14–15
READING CHECK
b It disappeared from the Countess’s hotel room.
c The police think John Horner took it.
dHolmes doesn’t understand how the diamond got
into the goose.
e Holmes wants to find the thief.
fPeterson leaves the goose with his wife. / Peterson
takes the diamond to Sherlock Holmes.
g Peterson must buy a goose for Henry Baker.
WORD WORK
1 b jewel
d disappear, sir
c believe
e thief
2 b court
e Countess
c repair
f High Court
d prison
g report
3 The answer is ‘Morocco’.
GUESS WHAT
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
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a Yes b No c Yes d No e No
pp. 20–21
READING CHECK
b 3 c 3 d 3
WORD WORK
b safe
f housekeeper
c address
g Museum
d innocent
h pub
e already
GUESS WHAT
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answer is ‘c’.
pp. 26–27
a 5 b 6 c 3 d 1 e 4 f 7 g 2
WORD WORK
b sell
d page
c beer
e winner
GUESS WHAT
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
a Holmes feels happy about the case.
b Holmes and Watson to 221B Baker Street.
c They speak to the hotel’s assistant manager.
pp. 32–33
READING CHECK
Holmes and Watson talk in the street near
Breckinridge’s shop. Holmes is happy to get Mrs
Oakshott’s address. Behind them they hear Mr
Breckinridge talking in front of his shop with a little
man. This man is very interested in Mrs Oakshott’s
geese. Mr Breckinridge gets angry with him. Holmes
tells the man that he knows something about the case.
The man says his name is John Robinson, but his real
name is James Ryder. Holmes, Watson and Ryder go
back to Holmes’s house.
WORD WORK
b shouted
d job
c cabs
e real
GUESS WHAT
Encourage students to guess but do not tell them the
answers now. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
a At home Holmes takes out the blue diamond.
b Ryder has a drink.
c We learn that Ryder was the diamond thief.
d In the end no-one goes to prison.
pp. 40–41
READING CHECK
b ‘Howdid you know about the diamond?’
c ‘The Countess’s maid told me.’
d‘I put it in a goose at my sister’s house. But she had
two birds with black tails!’
e ‘Please don’t tell the police!’
f ‘Get out!’
g ‘Let’s have dinner!’
WORD WORK
Words across: feel sorry for, witnesses, neck, police
officers, solution, arrest
Words down: decide, floor, tail, truth, catch
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Answer key 答案
福尔摩斯探案故事：蓝色宝石
Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond
b feel sorry for
g tail
c truth
h arrest
d police officers
i witnesses
e solution
j floor
f catch
k neck
GUESS WHAT
1 Encourage students to guess and to give reasons for
their answers before telling them the answers:
a The Final Problem
b The Sign of Four c The Empty House
d The Dancing Men
2 Open answers.
pp. 42 –46
PROJECT 拓展训练
1 Open answers.
2 Name: Sherlock Holmes
Home: Baker Street, London
Appearance: tall and thin, can look very different when
he wants
Usual clothes: hat and coat
Habits: smokes, lives with his housekeeper, Mrs Hudson
Hobbies: plays music in his free time
3 Open answer.
4 Open answer.
6 1 e 2 c 3 f 4 d 5 a 6 b
7 Goering buys a fake Vermeer!
During the Second World War a Dutchman, Hans van
Megeeren sold a painting to a German called Herman
Goering for $150,000. Goering thought the painting was
by a famous Dutch painter called Vermeer, but it was by
Van Megeeren.
Later police arrested Van Megeeren for selling a great
Dutch painting, but when he painted another painting in
the style of Vermeer, they released him.
4 Open answer.
pp. 47–53
GRAMMAR CHECK 语法充电
1 b has got
c has got
d has got
e has got
f has got
g hasn’t got
h hasn’t got
i has got
2
3
bThere were some young men in the street in front
of them.
c Holmes gave the advertisement to me.
d They say a young man, John Horner, took it.
e Shall I leave the diamond with you, sir?
f Then Mr Ryder told us the true story.
gPlease don’t tell her! I never did anything wrong
before!
b it
c him
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Answer key 答案
福尔摩斯探案故事：蓝色宝石
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
He
it
me
you
me
it
he
him
I
you
4
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
The police are going to go after John Horner.
The police aren’t going to catch us.
The police are going to put John Horner in prison.
We aren’t going to go to prison.
I’m going to sell the diamond for a lot of money.
We’re never going to work again.
We’re going to buy a big house in France.
We aren’t going to tell people about the diamond.
5
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
to buy
cleaning
to think
wearing
to put
working
drinking
to write
to give
6
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
into
across
along
into
out of
past
to
into
to
out of
up
into
7
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
Who took the diamond?
Who did you see in the hotel room?
Who did the manager take to the Countess’s room?
What made Horner angry?
What did James Ryder do?
What did the police find in the room?
Who put an advertisement in a newspaper?
Who sold the owner of The Alpha twenty-four geese?
8
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
After I left the hotel,
when I got to her house.
before my sister came into the garden.
Before I went to see my friend,
when I got to his house.
After I told my friend about the diamond,
when I ran back to my sister’s house.
after I left with the dead goose.
before I arrived at his shop.
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