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READING & TRAINING
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Stories
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Page 6 – exercise 1
Page 17 – exercise 4
Open answers
1T 2T 3F 4F 5T 6F 7F
Chapter Two
Page 8 – Quiz
Page 18 – exercise 1
1B 2C 3C 4A 5B 6C 7C
1 chair 2 ink 3 bookcase
4 typewriter 5 ruler 6 table
THE RED-HEADED
LEAGUE
Chapter One
Page 10 – The story’s title
Page 18 – exercise 2
From the objects illustrated in
exercise 1 you hear:
two chairs, a table, a bookcase, ink
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Page 26 – exercise 1
1A 2B 3B 4A 5C
1F 2T 3F 4T 5F 6T
Page 42 – exercise 1
Page 32 – exercise 1
1 earth 2 London’s 3 floor
4 quietly 5 hole 6 criminal
7 behind 8 best 9 interesting
1C 2A 3B 4A 5C 6A 7B
Page 43 – exercise 2
1E 2G 3D 4A 5C 6F 7I 8C
9 B 10 G 11 H 12 E 13 G 14 F 15 A
Page 33 – exercise 3
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Chapter Three
Page 32 – exercise 2
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1 more expensive 2 more interesting
3 worse 4 more dangerous
5 prettier 6 warmer 7 funnier
8 stronger 9 taller 10 better
1 mystery 2 carriage 3 musician
4 robber 5 murderer 6 trousers
7 ugly 8 knees
Page 43 – exercise 3
Chapter Four
Page 43 – exercise 4
Page 34– exercise 1
1 pipe 2 cellar 3 tattoo 4 tunnel
5 magnifying glass 6 handcuffs
7 league 8 newspaper 9 sleeves
10 chain
Open answers
A tunnel
B handcuffs
C cracks
D magnifying glass
Page 44 – exercise 5
V M I N S
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T S X Q A B C A E M K Y
Open answers
Page 18 – exercise 3
D C C E K R F L H Z L L E H Z N C W
L W V W V H S E Y P E U L P Y X A
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Page 10 – exercise 1
1 ten 2 two 3 copy 4 pen 5 ink
6 paper 7 four pounds
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1 sleeves 2 watch chain
3 newspaper advertisement 4 coin
Page 10 – exercise 2
1F 2T 3F 4T 5F 6T
Page 16 – exercise 1
1E 2C 3F 4A 5B 6D
Page 16 – exercise 2
1 uninteresting 2 uncomfortable
3 unkind 4 indecisive 5 unpopular
6 incorrect 7 inexpensive
Page 17 – exercise 3
1 your 2 about 3 have 4 for
5 you 6 address 7 can 8 at 9 in
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Page 24 – exercise 1
E L O P B H A V
1B 2C 3A 4B 5C 6C
U Q C A R Q N E Q C U Y R T A V P R
I W G C A M W S B E
Page 25 – exercise 2
E Y V P Q M D S X V E F U N G I G I
1B 2A 3B 4A
P W K E H N C X P O R
I O E P R D A
Page 26 – exercise 3
H P X R F L U Z K Q G E W U T Z B N
1 little 2 few 3 few 4 little 5 few
G M A G N I
Page 26 – exercise 4
O Y
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O K L R T L S T A T T O O G H F O I
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
They are outside Mr Wilson’s shop
in Saxe-Coburg Square.
They are looking at the stones of
the pavement.
Open answers
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Page 44 – exercise 6
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small
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Open answers
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noisiest
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Page 50 – exercise 1
Page 62 – exercise 4
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1 met 2 had 3 could not 4 got
5 left 6 caught 7 took 8 arrived
9 woke 10 were 11 gave 12 listened
13 said 14 asked 15 told
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THE SPECKLED BAND
Chapter One
Page 62 – exercise 5
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a walking stick
Possible answers include: dark,
dangerous, mysterious
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tallest
most important
poorest
easiest
worst
shortest
strangest
most mysterious
Page 80 – exercise 1
Open answers
Page 80 – exercise 2
1A 2C 3B 4C 5A 6B 7C 8A
9 A 10 B
1 Wednesday 2 22 April 3 10:33
4 nine 5 No food, only cold drinks
Page 89 – exercise 2
Chapter Three
1 Why / did not want 2 Where / lived
3 When / died 4 What / was
5 How / came in 6 Who / killed
7 How / climbed 8 Where / put
9 Why / saw 10 When / left
Page 71 – exercise 5
Open answers
Page 72 – exercise 1
Page 90 – exercise 3
1D 2H 3G 4E 5C 6F 7B 8A
1A 2D 3G 4H 5C
Page 62 – exercise 6
Page 72 – exercise 2
Page 91 – exercise 4
Open answers
1E 2B 3D 4C 5A
Page 78 – exercise 1
tall
important
poor
easy
bad
short
strange
mysterious
Chapter Four
Page 71 – exercise 4
1T 2F 3F 4T 5F 6T 7F
Page 61 – exercise 2
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Page 88 – exercise 1
Page 63 – exercise 7
1C 2A 3B 4C 5C 6A
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1A 2B 3A 4B 5C
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Page 60 – exercise 1
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1 match 2 nightdress 3 widow
4 thief 5 poison
A2 B1 C4 D3
Page 52 – exercise 1
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Page 71 – exercise 3
Page 52 – The story’s title
1T 2F 3T 4F 5T 6F
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1C 2F 3D 4H 5A
Page 70 – exercise 2
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Page 79 – exercise 4
Page 61 – exercise 3
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1 prettiest 2 best 3 richest
4 most frightened 5 most dangerous
neighbour – this person is not a
relative
2 thief – this is not a job or
profession
3 hair – this is not a piece of
clothing
4 ticket – this is not a means of
transportation
5 coffee – this is the only hot drink
6 fear – this is a noun, the others
are all adjectives
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Page 70 – exercise 1
London in the times of
Sherlock Holmes
F – Most people lived in big towns
or cities.
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F – There was a lot of crime
because London had a small police
force.
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F – Many people used bicycles in
London at this time.
F – Music halls were very popular
with the lower class.
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Asia and India
India
2 to 3 / 225
At night
They like eating meat, climbing
trees and swimming.
6 A female tiger has between 2 and
6 cubs.
7 There are around 120,000 tigers
in the world today.
8 Three kinds of tigers are now
extinct.
Chapter Two
Page 64 – exercise 1
1A 2C 3C 4B
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Page 78 – exercise 2
5 V E N T
1C 2A 3E 4D 5A 6G 7C 8F
9 B 10 D 11 A 12 C
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dangerous, tall, rude, angry,
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calm/angry, old/young,
friendly/unfriendly,
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1 Holmes’s visitors
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3 Fill in the gaps with some or any.
Read the paragraphs below and choose the best word (A, B or C) for
each space.
Mr Jabez Wilson was (1) …..…… ordinary shopkeeper. (2) ………… had a small
shop in London. He had a tattoo of a (3) ……….. on his right hand and kept a
Chinese coin on his (4) ..………… chain. He also had (5) ................. red hair.
One day his assistant showed him an (6) ……………. in the newspaper. The
Red-Headed League was looking (7) ………. a man with red hair for a job.
Helen Stoner was a young lady dressed (8) ………….. black clothes. She was
(9) …………….. thirty years old but some of (10) ……………. hair was already
white. She lived in Stoke Moran with her stepfather. Her sister Julia died
two years (11) …………… . She was frightened (12) …………. something strange
was happening in her bedroom (13) ……………… night.
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Dr Roylott had to give Julia …………. money.
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Helen and her sister did not have …………. friends.
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‘Did you see …………. wild animals at Stoke Moran?’
4 Mr Wilson saw …………. red-headed men at Pope’s Court.
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Sherlock Holmes did not hear …………. noise in the cellar.
6 Mr Merryweather brought …………. playing cards with him.
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Which story did you like best? Why?
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Who was your favourite character?
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Which was your favourite part of the story?
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dirty
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B careless
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fat
C safe
4 early
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ugly
silent
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1H 2E 3G 4A 5F 6B 7D 8C
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1 some 2 any 3 any 4 some 5 any 6 some
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H clean
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